No, I'm not talking about the heat haze a few days ago and the many political escandalazos besetting us. Really speak of hell, the fire and brimstone, that too know a lot after more than thirty years of rule by the derechona, so much so that it turns out that our City can not think of anything else to circumvent the Law of Historical Memory which to save the "Monument to Franco" foist a facelift name by "Fallen Angel." Although very little religious one, knows that the Fallen Angel is one of the names of Lucifer being cast out of heaven. True, they have put a name to evil tribute to a great demon who ruled the English state for 40 years, but one never ceases to marvel at our munícipes occurrences.
When you look at our City website (to see how justified this "brilliant" idea) you can understand something, of course!, is that the smart ass of the day the monument used to publicize a photo with a close-angel sculpture, without which, incidentally, be seen to be above our friend There is an enormous winged man, with sword in hand and flag around his neck, he wants to cut fly heads of "red."
That being the only city in the world that pays homage to the "devil" in one of his main arteries is no less striking. I really might not be the best critic of art, but I can not understand the name calling. I do not see the image of the winged being no horns or tail (God forbid) and if you look at the statue no one will understand that paint shields Islands allegorical and even less who it is that is riding on top if the bottom is Lucifer God?, Adam? "Zerolo? A man who passed through there. " Yet, if the renaming would coincide with the abrupt departure of Angel Llanos municipal government until he could see a certain grace to the invention.
The reality is that anyone who has lived some time in Santa Cruz knows that this is the "Monument to Franco," a collective memory is also supported by its own municipal records of the time, explaining very clearly the origin and meaning thereof. That is the historical, political and artistic the monument, there is no more. In this case we clearly have a municipality that uses a trick to keep a tribute to the dictator, ignoring the law itself and especially the memory of the thousands killed, detained, harassed and retaliated Canary simply think differently, because Left.
no mistake, move the monument to a dictator to a museum is not an artistic or aesthetic question of revenge, is an exercise in collective ethics in the Canary Islands has unfortunately missed baskets. Even the modest monument to the thousands of Tenerife who were imprisoned in Fyffes had to be borne by a school in the city, offering a clear image of little or no political will on the groups present at the session.
We have a city full of memories and praising the Franco regime, as if the dictator was still resting in his bed Pardo. Thousands of plates with the yoke and arrows adorn the entrances of many other blocks of subsidized housing throughout the city. At some points are also accompanied by large wakes with the same symbol and the vertical union Franco, those of John XXIII and José Antonio neighborhood (named after the founder of the Falange) are good examples. But we can go much further. A few meters from the statue of the dictator we have a public school that has happened the name of one of her confessors, the Bishop Fray Albino, one of the main ideologists of the "crusade" rabid defender of the shootings as purification and convinced anti-Semite, a school that until recently was also chaired by a huge shield preconstitucional . But that's nothing, in the heart of Toscal another public school dedicated to the founder of the JONS, Redondo Onesimus, who along with phalanx formed the main party of the fascist regime and up to the Salamanca district have the CEIP José Antonio, mismito that of the neighborhood. So popular sculpture "Chicharro" is on the square "Interim Lieutenant" cuerpo paramilitar de estudiantes creado en septiembre de 1936 por los golpistas.
Nadie nos ha preguntado en Santa Cruz por los símbolos que queremos que nos representen o a quienes debemos mantener en esa memoria colectiva que son nuestras calles, colegios y plazas. Los cambios se hacen como si la ciudadanía fuese un elemento molesto, a la que jamás se puede consultar. Todo se ha hecho por decreto, a oscuras, lejos de la gente que vive aquí.
Mientras, a todas estas, aún tenemos al último alcalde republicano electo de Santa Cruz olvidado en alguna fosa, esa es la mejor imagen que nos puede quedar sobre el ejercicio de la ética en nuestra ciudad de los infiernos.
Foto: José Mesa
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