Galíndez

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Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990. It centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA. The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize. The detective and narrator of the novel is Muriel Corbert. She is a history graduate who seeks out the truth of Galíndez' fate. In doing so she travels from the United States, to Spain and then the Dominican Republic, and uncovers a conspiracy between Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, the CIA and Francoist Spain. The novel was made into a film in 2003, called El Misterio Galíndez (literally "The Galindez Mystery", but also known as "The Galíndez File"). The film stars Saffron Burrows and Harvey Keitel.

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