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That story of the charcoal burner from Triana reminds me of the characters portrayed by Juan Ramón Jiménez in ‘El trabajo gustoso’. He was a man who had a charcoal and cisco picón stand for the braziers in the Sevillian neighborhood on the other side of the river. The days of the civil war passed. And since he was no longer old enough to be mobilized, he continued with his business, with his black coal like the Spain that faced each other on the two fratricidal sides. He saw that all official documents and all communications ended with the phrase: ‘II Triumphal Year’. And one fine day when the charcoal burners did not come from the mountains, he found that he had no goods to sell. For the
who with chalk put a sign on the closed door of his business: «Coal is out. Second Triumphant Year.
Something like the charcoal burner from Triana has done here Sánchez suddenly with the coronavirus. In the usual propaganda apparatuses of the Government and in the media terminals of the dissemination of their lies, it is as if by order from above they had put up a sign like the one of the charcoal burner, which read: “Covid is over. Sánchez’s third triumphant year in government.
They have decided as usual, without taking it to the Council of Ministers, without consulting with Congress, or with the opposition, or with the parties that brought him to power through the investiture pact. There are too many problems in Spain so that, on top of that, we have to continue worrying about the coronavirus. It is decided that the daily figures of infected, hospitalized and dead are not given, and that’s it. The number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants is no longer given, and that’s it. All restrictions are eliminated and those that the autonomies can put with the story of co-governance are finished, and that’s it. Gentlemen: with this inflation, there are more important things here than Covid to worry about. Although the real experts say that a seventh wave is coming, they will say that the seventh wave is a song by Manuel Alejandro for Rocío Jurado, ‘like a wave’. And it is suddenly decided, without entrusting himself to God or the devil, the flu of Covid. The vaccination centers are closed, although the Andalusian Health Council asks that the fourth injection be given to the population at risk or over 70 years of age. The PCR and the home tests are over, and the Fallas are celebrated in style, as if nothing happened, and how many street parties are called, and now Holy Week in Seville and in all of Spain, even if the paripé is covered that the costaleros take the test 24 hours before taking out the brotherhood. And the crowds, vulgar noise? And the dangers of contagion? Don’t be a jerk. We have too much with the CPI at 9.8 percent, with the transport strike, with the rise in prices, with shortages, with the price of electricity and gas for us to still worry about Covid, apart from the Ukraine war. Say yes. And, if not, say like Serrano Suñer when the Blue Division, which is always very useful: «Russia is guilty».
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