A few days ago we attended the plenary session on the amnesty law, which is now a reality. After a long journey in Congress and the Senate and having overcome the insistent attacks from the right and the judiciary, the norm that must repair the repression of the independence movement received the final green light from the lower house on Thursday and is ready to come into force once it has been published in the Official State Gazette. Now we will have to see what happens with the judges, those in charge of applying the law. A debate in the chamber that saw, among others, the singer from Granada Miguel Rios.
to the singer of Santa Lucía, Welcome, Hymn of joy or the Bus Blues, watching and, above all, listening to what was said in Congress, his hair stood on end, or even more so, his skin crawled. Ríos has been on TVE, with Xabier Fortes, in The night in 24 hours. And there he expressed what he felt a few days ago during the plenary session of the Amnesty Law: “I was born in ’44, so I have lived through Franco’s regime, and The other day I heard Francoism pure and simple. What she heard was what she had heard: ‘Traitor!’, which is a word that fascists like a lot. “That day I had a very bad day.”, says. And he adds that “In my house there was so much fear that nothing was talked about. As I grew up I realized what it was and what they were. I had a very bad time. We are in a drift that is not only Spanish, it is also planetary”.
The network has been on fire with responses. Reactions in chain. Many hyperventilating, doing what people always do. offended when you talk to them about Franco and you tell them what there is, that there is still Francoism, or heirs of Francoism: to act offended and ironic. Fortunately, there are sensible people who have also said theirs:
