If García Lorca had survived August 18, 1936 Macarena Olona would not be a Vox deputy in Congress. She owes her seat to the spilled blood of the poet. Macarena Olona is not ignorant, a little yes, but above all she is a low-life provocateur and that is why we should not waste time explaining history to revisionists. No time is wasted with Holocaust deniers, nor explaining the ideology and political culture of Federico García Lorca, but it is necessary to make it clear that the only cultural references that the right wing has in this country have blood on their hands. The only historical legacy that Olona drinks from is death and crime.
History is a succession of causes and consequences that operate in an interrelated way and end up shaping a reality built on previous events. That is why it is easy to conclude from our legacy what was the factual concretion that explains the existence of a post-fascist party like that of Santiago Abascal. Vox exists because they assassinated Lorca, because they assassinated hundreds of thousands of other Spaniards who were republicans, socialists, communists, anarchists, gays or democrats and won a war provoked by the resistance of democracy to a coup d’état. That is Vox, heir to those who shed the blood of the best of Spain.
The only thing that reaction brings to Spanish politics are provocations, insults and mockery. An eternal cultural war that hides the absolute inanity of its policies. Identity as the only way out of an ineptitude that they show with a verbosity proud of their ignorance. About Lorca or about espadrilles, about our memory and despising diversity. Words are the basis on which coexistence is built or destroyed. Using the name ‘feminist’ for a bull that is going to be tortured and killed is a political statement, perhaps born from the deepest conviction that so many years of impunity allow them to treat in a derogatory manner anyone who does not share their vision of the world.
Poets, espadrilles and bulls. A week of contempt that can be sewn together with the black thread that represents their forty-year domination. Lorca was buried with two anarchist banderilleros and a teacher, in the same ditches of wet and putrid earth where the remains of day labourers’ espadrilles, other of his favourite victims, are found every time he scratches. Because the collective culture of the left is full of verses and espadrilles, the culture of the defeated, yes, of those who only had art and espadrilles to defend themselves from fascism until the end of their lives. to the point of representing it in the famous propaganda poster by Pere Català Pic. That is why the right wing needs to plunder the memory of those they murdered, because they have nothing to be proud of on their side, because they did away with culture, with the only thing worthwhile in the Spain of those times. The only thing worthy of being rescued from those years of misery and lead ended up in a ditch, in prison or exile because they could not tame it.
Lorca would not vote for Vox. But to verbalize it with impudence shows the necrophagous plan they had for Spain and want to continue, that of humiliation and indoctrination, that of making people bow their heads before the fascist’s step. No, Olona, Lorca would never have voted for Vox, that’s why they had to kill him, because there was no other way to bend him.
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