Castor oil for ‘red’

There is plenty of information about a particularly humiliating punishment during the Spanish civil war in the Canary Islands: the intake of castor oil. Images of the canary phalangist squadrons were famous patrolling the streets of the main cities of the Archipelago, carrying their corresponding firearms and accompanied by two softer but indispensable deterrent elements. I am referring to the truncheons and a very particular glass container, in…