Alicante honours war criminals

Last post for today, and to finish with the opening of the blog I want to share a story with the world.

I wanted to report for everyone about a long history that still remains in Spain. In 1936 a group of soldiers(no, this ain't the A-Team start) decided to rise against a democratic and legitimate government in Spain. It caused thousands of deaths, a civil war and a dictatorship regime that lasted for nearly 40 years in one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

After the Spanish Civil War the dictator Franco ruled the country with the handfull collaboration of the Catholic church and the conservative parties. During this time, apart from killing and imprison all his enemies, and those were really a lot, he received lots of honours from the cities and regions. One of these honours was favourite son of Alicante. With a new law in Spain that aims to eliminate the names that can be offensive to the victims of the cruel dictator, and meassures for the ones that suffered the civil war and the dictatorship this title must be removed.

The problem is that the local government doesn't want to remove this title, claiming that this action doesn't matter the people of Alicante, that there are bigger problems,etc,etc. The major, Díaz Alperi, denied the proposal of the other parties to retire this honorific title, saying that if these groups could find 25000 people that wanted this there will be no problem in doing it.

First of all, this is not neccessary because the major and the governmet have to do it by law. Anybody can report this to the court according to the law.

Secondly, as we, the alicantinos, are very humorous, we have decided to create a cometee to find 2500 alicantinos who would like to sing the petition to retire the title to Franco. Anyone can sign it, although it is not neccessary because as I said the major is breaking a law with his obstination.

Just for finishig I had a rethorical question. For all those oppose to this law, Ley de Memoria Histórica, that claim not to remove the past, that we should look to the future: What's the problem to look back to the past? or Do you have something to hide as you oppose to the Law that restores the honours of the victims of a war and a dictatorship?

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