Valeria Montes
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0Name: Valeria Montes
Age: 19
Nationality: Spanish
Affiliation: Las Liberaciones — a growing underground resistance movement.
Role: A young activist who has become a recognisable face of the unrest.
Personality: Defiant, observant, distrustful of authority, and fiercely protective of ordinary Spanish citizens. Spain is now divided between the dictatorship's authorities and a population increasingly unwilling to accept their rule.
Madrid: The centre of government control, surveillance and mass demonstrations.
Barcelona: A major centre of strikes, underground publications and public resistance.
Valencia: A city where unrest spreads through working-class neighbourhoods and industrial districts.
Seville: A southern stronghold where the movement attracts students, workers and disillusioned former government supporters.
The Liberaciones are not necessarily a single unified organisation. Some members demand peaceful political reform, others organise strikes, and more radical factions disagree about what a free Spain should look like. The government claims that vast agricultural plantations are growing specialised crops to help develop a cure for cancer. State propaganda presents the workers as serving a noble national cause, and the harvests are celebrated as a scientific breakthrough.
The hidden truth: The plantations use enslaved workers who are exposed to toxic agricultural chemicals. Many become seriously ill, while officials conceal the connection between their working conditions and their declining health. The government suppresses reports of poisoning to protect the programme and its public image.
The real purpose: The cancer research programme gives the dictatorship a justification for forced labour, land seizures and extraordinary government spending. Whether the research itself has any genuine medical value remains a closely guarded secret.
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