The 60,000 families that colonized dry Spain

It was the first day of a new life.

Some arrived by car, others by taxi, they also did it later in their cars, whoever had it.

Everyone hoped to start from scratch in another place, but they had to work very hard to be able to stay in the houses of newly born villages.

From the beginning of the 1940s, in that country of hunger, black market and repression, until 1971, the Franco regime, through the National Institute of Colonization (INC), mobilized almost 60,000 families - if they were very large, the better. who became settlers of some ...

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