A 17-year-old's imprisonment in Franco's Spain for challenging conservative norms
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Summary
This article tells the harrowing story of Mariona, a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain who was locked up in a convent by her ultra-conservative, right-wing Catholic parents in 1968. As she began tutoring children and attending evening classes for university, she encountered trade unionists, left-wingers, and anti-Franco activists during a time of global protests against authoritarianism. Her parents, alarmed by her exposure to these new ideas and people, had her institutionalized in a convent where she was subjected to forced sedation and put into a coma-like state as punishment for her independent thinking and behavior that challenged the strict social norms of Franco's regime.
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But in 1968, when she turned 16, a new world unfolded. Mariona was tutoring children during the day, and preparing for university at evening classes.
There, she says, she met people she'd never encountered before - trade unionists, left-wingers and anti-Franco activists.
It was the year of global protests against authoritarianism and the Vietnam War
Marina's mother was held against her will in a convent in 1960s Spain under Franco's regime.
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