Galíndez

Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990.

[1] 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.

[1][2]: 25  The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize.

[2]: 36  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.

[3][4][5] The film stars Saffron Burrows and Harvey Keitel.