Al Alba. At down.

Singing to life

"Al Alba" is a song wrote and sang by Luis Eduardo Aute. He wrote this song because of the eleven death sentences imposed on several members of ETA (political-military) and FRAP. This happened at the end of the dictatorship in September 027, 1975; and this made the public opinion reaching up in protests against the death penalty, not only the population but other countries opposed and six of the eleven sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life.

One of the most repulsive features of dictatorships are the repressions that occur during the night, taking it like an advantage as the refuge of cowards attacking from behind and under the impassive gaze of the dictators; when violent groups that harass people who not belong to the same political sign. They took them, tortured them and shot them, being little and fortuitous cases in which there was any survivor. Often they disappeared without the knowledge of the families if they will return or not. This was the case of the great Spanish writer Lorca; who was taken in for questioning voluntarily, ensuring to his friend who accompanied him (akin to the regime) that he would return. Finding that Lorca did not return, the family just discovered that, that night had been taken a  few and had shot. This happened to him at the start of the Civil War like to many others unkown.

Fuente: Google images.

In all dictatorships this type of episodes occur such as happened in Argentina " La noche de los lápices", or "the night of broken glass" in Germany. 

The death penalty still in some countries, and it´s the worst thing that can happen to a pilitical prisioner, anybody should be killed because of their ideas, and Aute try to reflect this in a song that speaks about love, trying to avoid the censorship and he got it; the song became an hymn of that historical moment.

"Al Alba" es una canción escrita por Luis Eduardo Aute, cuando al final de la dictadura franquista se condenó a muerte a once personas, la mayoría miembros de  ETA y FRAP. La opinión pública se levantó contra esta decisión y las penas de muerte, incluso otros países presionaron, llegando a conseguir que se conmutaran seis de las once penas a cadena perpetua. En todas las dictaduras se ha utilizado la tortura y la muerte como método de represión, utilizando la madrugada, para coger por sorpresa a aquellos contrarios al signo político ganador. Algunos de los episodios más conocidos son "la noche de los lápices" en Argentina o "la noche de los cristales rotos" en Alemania.