Lorca had a relationship with a Uruguayan writer and millionaire, Enrique Amorín, and the writer speculates that he could have taken the body after Lorca’s death.

:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.With the recent failures to locate the body of the Granada writer, Federico García Lorca, who was shot dead on August 18 1936 by the Guardia Civil for being a member of the Frente Popular and openly gay, a new theory on what may have happened has emerged.

According to the Peruvian writer, Santiago Roncagliolo, Lorca had a relationship with a Uruguayan writer and millionaire, Enrique Amorín, and the writer speculates that he could have taken the body after Lorca’s death. There are letters between the two men which are very intimate but Ian Gibson, famous for his knowledge about Lorca, has written that many people fell in love with Lorca, and that he forgot them quickly.

Roncagliolo has published a book ‘The Uruguayan lower – A true story’ which investigates Buenos Aires in the 30’s, the Spanish civil war, and the post war Paris. He describes Amorín has ‘ a seductive writer, communist, married but homosexual, and Uruguayan and Argentinean in equal halves, who claimed that he stole the Granada writer’s body when he paid homage to Lorca in 1952 in Salto, and when he had in his possession a white box which supposedly contained Lorca’s bones. A monument was built at the site of that homage ceremony and it remains intact today.

Roncagliolo says that if Lorca’s remains are where Amorín said he placed them, it is of historical interest, but if the remains are not there it is simply a joke against the intellectual world which should never be taken seriously.

Another item of interest which Ronagliolo mentions in the book is a letter about a secret meeting that Charles Chaplin had at the time with Picasso. 
‘Chaplin did not want people to know that the meeting had taken place because they would pursue him in the United States for being a communist, as Picasso was a recognised communist. The author says the two met in secret and Amorín was there. However there is no record of Chaplin mentioning Amorín, although he says Jean-Paul Sartre was present. Ronagliolo speculates that Amorín was pretending to be Satre.

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