Baltasar Garzón and the door to truth

The Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago has produced a blog supporting Spanish examining magistrate Baltasar Garzón's plans to reopen the investigation of crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco that followed: "Garzón is the examining magistrate who has done the most to please those who still believe in justice. ... In response to complaints that he received he has intervened in a matter that is larger than himself and larger than all judicial institutions: ... He knows that he may [eventually] have to give up, but now all the doors to truth stand open. ... Garzón has helped to make this happen. Never before have the victims of the civil war been so happy. ... For Garzón all human concerns are his own. He is intervening in matters that he describes as criminal because he has the legal power to do so."

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