- The threat of “Filomena”
- Churches smoke screen
The political and economic crisis is beating down on Spain, aggravated by the winter storm that has caused Madrid and other areas of the country to be overwhelmed by cold, rain and snow, in one of the harshest seasons in recent years. years. A phenomenon of nature that was not expected and that comes when, precisely, the covid-19, keeps the authorities in check due to the increase in infected and dead. The effort of some companies, shops and businesses to keep up with the economic activity is frustrated because people are besieged at home and, lately, consumption with credit cards has fallen. Unemployment grows and the tourist paralysis determines that the millionaire losses accumulate.
Everything seems to indicate that Castilla and central Spain are facing what some already consider to be one of the heaviest snowfalls in recent decades. The storms affect 350 roads and fifty impassable alternate roads. You are only just beginning to speculate and analyze the disastrous effects it will have on production. In Madrid, emblematic stores, such as El Corte Inglés, have closed temporarily due to the “Filomena” storm. In the midst of the winter crisis, energy users find out that seasonal services rise relentlessly with the socialist government, more than in Rajoy’s times. Some road accesses to the Spanish capital have had to close to prevent trucks from causing further congestion and difficulties. The good administration of the Community of Madrid that had managed to contain contagions and improve the economy suffers a harsh test of winter in forced confinement, in one of the times in which consumption traditionally increases, since there Christmas presents usually occur Kings Day.
“Filomena” is not the only storm that affects the Spanish. The scandals and tension increase due to the political confrontation that has not led to a truce even on Christmas days. The Podemos movement, with its vice-president Pablo Iglesias at the head, in alliance with the separatists, intends to attempt against the unity of Spain, so it tries to circumvent the Constitution and sow anarchy, in a retarding effort of involution in which the ghosts of times of the Republic and the civil war, to lower the winners of that feat from the statues and raise the losers, with the aim of altering the historical veracity.
As much as you want to mask historical memory, the facts are incontrovertible, recognizing and interpreting them is what corresponds. So what is promoted is to open the seared veins of the Civil War and register more hatreds to encourage confusion in the new generations and foster social disagreement, when with great political intelligence they had overcome those atavistic antagonisms and built a democracy of the most strong from Europe.
It is said that in part the pugnacity of Iglesias these days against the forces of order and the monarchy itself is due to the effort to divert public attention from the serious economic crisis that is growing by discouraging investment and wasting official funds. The painful situation, in a way, could worsen with the issuance announced for this year of 280,000 million euros, 12,000 million more compared to the previous one and many fear that under the pretext of fighting the pandemic these funds will be as badly used as they have been up to now . Fortunately, to alleviate the situation somewhat, the European monetary authorities have lowered interest rates considerably.
To distract the opinion, the militants of Podemos led by Iglesias are critical of King Felipe VI, who retains a greater popularity than the civil government, which makes them envious. In the Christmas speech, the King achieves an audience of 80 percent, with notable signs of credibility and approval. There is even the case of people who, without being of a manifest monarchical tendency, declare that they respect him as a fundamental public servant to maintain the unity of Spain.
It is true that the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union fell, like the Berlin Wall, but that is not the end of history, as the Japanese historian Fujiyama proclaimed. It turns out that the Chavista model manages, due to the division or the atony of the right, to come to power through free elections in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, while in Europe it influences Portugal, Italy and Spain.
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