Madrid, España
Ante la inviabilidad de mantener la resistencia armada en la posguerra española, un gran número de integrantes de los focos guerrilleros antifranquistas decidieron abandonar su lucha y poner rumbo a distintos países en los que iniciar una nueva vida. La opción ideal consistía en cruzar la vigilada frontera pirenaica y solicitar asilo político en Francia ante los organismos de acogida: la Office Central des Réfugiés Espagnols (OCRE), hasta 1952, y después la Office Français de Protection des Réfugiés et Apatrides (OFPRA). Sin embargo, el nuevo clima de Guerra Fría había impuesto unas lógicas políticas que distaban ya del discurso antifascista. Para conquistar este derecho, los guerrilleros debieron escribir sus peticiones de asilo moviéndose entre la reivindicación y el encubrimiento de su lucha.
When it became clear that it was no longer feasible to main-tain an armed resistance in postwar Spain, many members of the var-ious anti-Francoist guerrilla groups decided to abandon their struggle and head for different countries to start a new life. The preferred route was to cross the closely guarded Pyrenean border and apply for political asylum with the help of refugee organizations in France. There, they were received by the Office Central des Réfugiés Espag-nols (OCRE), and, after 1952, the Office Français de Protection des Réfugiés et Apatrides (OFPRA). However, the climate of the Cold War had established a set of political imperatives that created an at-mosphere in which it was no longer enough to claim asylum by re-sorting to anti-fascist discourse. To win this right, the guerrillas had to write their petitions in a way that both vindicated and concealed their struggle.
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