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Resumen
In 1953 Franco signed an economic-military agreement with the U.S. administration that accelerated the international recognition of the Dictatorship. Contrary to the political premises of the World War II allies, the Cold War opened (again) the recognizion of totalitarian regimes as long as they were firmly capitalist. That resulted in the subaltern insertion of Spain into the american hegemony through expansive economic measures without any democratic orientation. This Pact paved the way of “desarrollismo” -the Spanish technocratic version of capitalist modernization-, that finally provided the Dictatorship with its “apparent” legitimacy. That shows the dangerous translations of modern capitalism on both sides of the Atlantic. The experiences of the New Deal ended up in Spain as one anti-democratic americanization -nowadays, defended by far-right american and european movements. This paper examines rural modernization in the light of the politics of time of this historical background. The francoist political economy implied the forced displacement of six million people from rural to urban areas and so the abandonment of their villages and cultural landscapes. Rural areas became “underdeveloped”, but also “anachronic” -with any political value. Based on different case studies, we will challenge this “impossed” perception recovering alternative temporalities and memories from the land.