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Feliz 25 de Abril🌹

Muito obrigada, anon! 🌹

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Sometimes I come across Tumblr blogs devoted to Spain but that won't talk about inside politics or history, just about the Mediterranean, the history of the state as a whole, and Spanish culture and food understood as Andalusian / Mediterranean.

I guess the bloggers - generally USAmericans -, even if they offer it as super informative and politically unbiased, want to write about the idea of Spain they have, not about Spain.

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A foreshadowing message by Basque representative in the Spanish Congress Mertxe Aizpurua the first day of Sánchez's term in office.

It sadly serves for many many countries around the world nowadays.

A third ingrediente will be necessary, one that represents the third great challenge that your Government and the political parties that will make it possible have before us: the deep democratization of this state. A democratization that reaches all that is known as deep state. A democratization that includes all the systems in this state, all of them, Mr. Sánchez. Because the political, judiciary, media, policial, corporate, or oligarchical scheme that is today revolving and acting against popular will - all of it with the blessing of the Crown itself - will not accept, today or anytime, to give up the privileges and power that the regime of '78 granted them. To defend these privileges is the goal of that perfectly orchestrated strategy by all of the right wings that we are witnessing these days against the popular and democratic expression in the elections. I will say it clearly: the regime of '78 in its whole antidemocratic dimension is trying to prevent a term in office of national and social progress, trying to prevent any democratizing shadow. This is what we are witnessing these days.

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We may be witnessing a soft coup in Spain, no kiddin

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The support of mass tourism brings this nightmare of gentrification and complete helplessness when trying to find a place to live in tourist areas. Not to mention that the Mediterranean and Andalusian coasts are considered theme parks by a huge number of tourists that want it just for them and want all locals out of their way because they're an inconvenience. It's a huge problem that requires a paradigm shift regarding tourism that nobody is willing to do, though.

As for the last part, I don't agree completely. In my opinion, music that's too regional isn't liked by outsiders, generally speaking. And every people that don't fit into the category of Castilian, that has its own personality, music and dance, accent or language, culture in a nutshell, gets mocked: Andalusians and how funny they speak and how lazy they are; Catalans and how funny they speak and how entitled and tightfisted; Galicians and how funny they speak and how silly and rural; Basques and how funny they speak and how brute and terrorist; etc. Now, any criticism / cliché towards Cantabrians, Castilians, people from La Rioja or Madrid? Nah, everything okay over there.

Sometimes I come across Tumblr blogs devoted to Spain but that won't talk about inside politics or history, just about the Mediterranean, the history of the state as a whole, and Spanish culture and food understood as Andalusian / Mediterranean.

I guess the bloggers - generally USAmericans -, even if they offer it as super informative and politically unbiased, want to write about the idea of Spain they have, not about Spain.

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A foreshadowing message by Basque representative in the Spanish Congress Mertxe Aizpurua the first day of Sánchez's term in office.

It sadly serves for many many countries around the world nowadays.

A third ingrediente will be necessary, one that represents the third great challenge that your Government and the political parties that will make it possible have before us: the deep democratization of this state. A democratization that reaches all that is known as deep state. A democratization that includes all the systems in this state, all of them, Mr. Sánchez. Because the political, judiciary, media, policial, corporate, or oligarchical scheme that is today revolving and acting against popular will - all of it with the blessing of the Crown itself - will not accept, today or anytime, to give up the privileges and power that the regime of '78 granted them. To defend these privileges is the goal of that perfectly orchestrated strategy by all of the right wings that we are witnessing these days against the popular and democratic expression in the elections. I will say it clearly: the regime of '78 in its whole antidemocratic dimension is trying to prevent a term in office of national and social progress, trying to prevent any democratizing shadow. This is what we are witnessing these days.

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We may be witnessing a soft coup in Spain, no kiddin

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Sometimes I come across Tumblr blogs devoted to Spain but that won't talk about inside politics or history, just about the Mediterranean, the history of the state as a whole, and Spanish culture and food understood as Andalusian / Mediterranean.

I guess the bloggers - generally USAmericans -, even if they offer it as super informative and politically unbiased, want to write about the idea of Spain they have, not about Spain.

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Knowing that Pedro Sanchez's wife was born in Bilbo, I'm surprised the lawfare hasn't accused her of being a member of the komando Bizkaia quite honestly.

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On April 24-25th 1937, Eibar was bombed non-stop by Italian Aviazione Legionaria. They left 74 dead, ~100 wounded, and a mostly destroyed town.

This was just the preface of what would happen the following day in Gernika.

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Newsflash: center-left Spaniards discover the Spanish deep state is rotten and fascist.

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'funny' how spanish fachos hate basques so much they want them all to disapear and consider them like a whole other race, that when basques do vote to stay away from spain they get all defensive and go "no you're actually spanish stfu!!"

Kaixo anon!

What people need to understand is that Spanish fatxis only accept people that is fatxi or vote for fatxis.

If Basque and Catalan people voted for them so they could be in power perpetually, I swear to you there would be absolutely no Basque or Catalanophobia in Spain.

It's just that we have this tendency to vote WRONG 🙄.

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Hello!! I read something a while ago that said there were "paths" in EH that during WWII were used by Jews to flee from France to Spain, and that there were Basque groups that would organise these escapes! Have you ever heard of this?

Kaixo!

There were those paths indeed, but they were not massively used by Jews to flee France. Friendly reminder that Spain was an ally of Nazi Germany and they were persecuted by the dictatorship too.

These paths were very well known by Pyrenean people - Basque and Aragonese - and they were mostly used for smuggling since Spain was then an autocracy that didn't allow any commerce with foreign states. Shepherds, women, and children that lived in the mountains used their secret paths away from the roads to cross the border and buy-sell some products.

They were known as mugalariak: muga (border) + lari (suffix for person that works, does something), so we could translate it roughly as "the ones that work in the border".

Sometimes, yes, mugalariak helped people cross the border, and many Basques escaped the dictatorship this way. They also would help fallen allied pilots and prisoners on the run in France to cross the mountains, so they could reach Madrid, then Gibraltar, and then London. The paths of the Pyrenees and mugalariak were the southernmost part of the so-called Red Comète, that helped the allies escape nazi occupated territory

There was a Basque woman though, Maria Anatol Aristegi aka Maritxu the mugalari, that used this system to save 39 Jewish people.

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Sunset in Barrika (Bizkaia) [x]

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"Widely view as the political heir of the defunct armed group ETA".

The leftwing separatist coalition EH Bildu, widely viewed as the political heir of the defunct armed group ETA, made a major breakthrough in Sunday's Basque regional elections although falling short of the win predicted by pollsters. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Bildu increased its representation from 21 to 27 mandates in the 75-seat Basque parliament, giving it the same result as the centrist Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), which has ruled the region for decades. Polls had predicted a tight race, seeing a narrow victory for Bildu -- a coalition which has worked to disassociate itself from ETA, whose bloody struggle for an independent Basque homeland claimed 850 lives before it rejected violence in 2011. And six years after ETA's dissolution, EH Bildu has pursued a winning strategy, putting its pro-independence demands on the back burner and focusing strongly on social issues, securing a solid following among young people under 40.

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If the Perro quits we're very much fucked.

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How the votes for Basque presidency have changed in Euskadi. [x]