I'll save your life, by Joaquín Leguina

I will save your life
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Those of one side and those of another, the national martyrs or the red martyrs. Sometimes it seems that the question is to discern who killed more or more viciously. Justice is not a matter of quantifying but of repaying, and we are still in this today.

But in the fray of ideals that try to seek that a posteriori moral victory, based on a kind of beatification of one side or another, the memory of exceptional characters appears, who acted just because, thinking about the lives of their peers above all else. any other conditioner.

Melchor Rodríguez was a convinced anarchist with outstanding prominence during the Spanish Civil War, a prominence buried by great battles, by victories, defeats or war parties. Melchor Rodríguez had great power at the command of the official prisons that collected rebels from the national side, and he used his power to impose sanity among all that madness that unleashes the souls of each other when weapons speak.

But above all, Melchior was a principled and moral guy, with a deep conviction that good and evil have a much clearer limit than the mutable adjustment of reason, ideals, and why not, of emotions. Save a multitude of national prisoners, free them from those ominous walks at sunset, free them from all kinds of humiliations, welcome them and give them shelter ... actions that put their position at risk, of course, but also their lives and that of their families.

The ultimate good is a kind of respect for a single commandment: you will not kill, you will not violate, you will not abuse, you will not mistreat. The complete assumption of the invokibility of the person in any aspect, with a religious or only ethical tinge, goes with each person. It is not always easy to find someone who has internalized this maxim, and even less during a war.

In this book, the portrait of Melchor Rodriguez, with his alias of Ángel Rojo, it becomes a literary fiction that would seem unthinkable, incredible without its real and documentary support. It would be hard for us to believe that someone like this could have existed, we would resort to our usual disbelief, cynicism and the self-sufficiency that dominates us today and we would propose the impossible existence of such a subject. But this fiction is a sustained reality in the recent past.

If the Reds could be beatified, San Melchor Rodríguez could have demonstrated more than two or three miracles. His life itself was a miracle.

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