Francisco Higuera López

Oficinista

1 de enero de 1940

Castilla la Mancha, España

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Biografía

Born in the late 1940s in Castilla-La Mancha. Came from a working-class family of six children; father was a builder. Left school at approximately 14 and worked a series of manual and then technical jobs in Madrid, qualifying as a technical draftsman at night school. Emigrated to Australia with his wife in 1973, where he spent approximately fourteen years. Returned to Spain after the transition to democracy.

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Francisco Higuera López

31 mar 2026

Audio

Interview covers: working-class childhood in Castilla-La Mancha and move to Madrid; schooling and early employment history; life in Franco's Spain — singing the national anthem, watching Franco's motorcade, respect/fear of the Civil Guard; his father's concealed Republican past and wartime imprisonment in Santander; the near-total silence around politics in the family; the decision to emigrate to Australia for adventure and work; political awakening in Australia through contact with Spanish exiles and left-wing literature; growing disillusionment with Soviet and Cuban communism; and the experience of returning to a democratising Spain.

Prisionero de guerra

Trabajo infantil

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