Great is the inheritance that PSOE, especially, and the left parties (not all of them, I have to say), are leaving us, the Spanish. Much they have taught us, not only in the recent times of democracy in Spain, also in the times longed for by the left, times of Second Republic in Spain.
I can enumerate some of them. Examples of appropriation of things, personal or not personal. Examples in the Second Republic, when the gold of the Spanish National Bank flew (or sailed) towars Moscow. Examples (in the Second Republic …

Leo y veo (como la serie de cuentos para los niños) en internet y en otros sitios las diferentes declaraciones de los prohombres, o de los prototipos de prohombres del PP. Este espectáculo, si no fuera por que es el PP, sería para seguirlo de lejos y reírse un poco. Me gustaría verlo, por ejemplo, en el PSOE (como pasó cuando Almunia), pero me tendré que resignar a verlo en las filas amigas.
Hay gente pa tó, como dice un amigo mío. Mientras la hemorragia parece que se ha parado en …

I am looking to the web sites of the digital newspapers, and seeing the same picture on all. The picture shows the Spanish president Mr. Zapatero with Juan José Cortés and Irene Suárez, the parents of Mari Luz, the girl murdered in Huelva for a pedophile man.
This murder is an example of the unefficiencies of the Spanish administration. Lost in a tangle of bureaucracy and entities, the assassin was condemned. But this sentence was not executed for laziness of for lack of professionalism, either of the judge or of the secretaty of …

La Comisión Nacional de la Energía ha solicitado recientemente al Gobierno una subida de la luz del 11% para este año. Este dato es aterrador, teniendo en cuenta las subidas en los años anteriores (cuando el PSOE no gobernaba), y la subida en los años del PSOE, alta, pero muy moderada comparada con la solicitada por la CNE.
El panorama eléctrico español se consolida, en términos de empresas, a mediados de la última década del siglo XX, con la integración (si es que no lo estaban) en Endesa de las empresas …

The third delivery of who the nationalists re-write the history is about the Galicians. Galicia (Galiza in Galician language) does not have to be confused with Galitzia or Galicia, the region between Poland and Ukraine. Galicia is a region on the north of Spain, just on top of Portugal.
The nationalism in Galicia does have little elements to base its creed, its religion, its own existence. The basis for nationalism in Galicia are basically on the myth of Breogán. Breogán is the name of a mythical celt king of Galicia. According …

Yes, I did it again. And is was yesterday.
As the President of Spain, and leader of the PSOE, I am invited to special events. Events such as the one of yesterday. This was very special for me. It was to resemblering one of my grandfathers, on Alange, a little village of Badajoz, near Portugal.
Yes, I know that I had two grandfathers. On the Spanish civil war, one of them was on the Franco side. I like the captain Rodríguez Lozano, one of my grandfathers. Some people says that he was involved …

Ayer tuve una conversación que tengo a menudo con gente variada. Se quejaban (nos quejábamos) de lo difícil que está el acceso a ciertos servicios: guarderías públicas, colegios, etc. Nos quejábamos de lo complicado que es, por que, entre otras cosas, no se cumplen los baremos, por que hay pocas plazas o por otras cosas.
Al final, de lo que nos quejábamos es de que las plazas están copadas en su mayoría por gente sin recursos. Pongamos un ejemplo: dicen que las guarderías de la Comunidad de Madrid son buenísimas, con …

I do not trust on Mr. Zapatero. I said that before. And I will say that again and again. There are too many reasons for me to say so. Let me go through this, with some examples.
Meeting with the victims of the basque separatist band ETA. When one of the victims (the sister of Gregorio Ordóñez, councilman of San Sebastián, was talking with the Spanish President about his brother, Mr. Zapatero told her and the rest of the people on the meeting that his grandfather was killed on the Spanish …

Ayer Pachi López presentó su plan soberanista. Le puede llamar como quiera, pero no deja de ser un plan soberanista. Dice exactamente todo lo que dice el PNV; propone exactamente lo que propone el PNV.
El movimiento de Pachi López es una continuación de la estrategia de Zapatero de ocupar todo el espectro político. Primero fue la idea de finiquitar al PP a través del Pacto del Tinell, apoyado tanto por ERC como por IRC, la rama izquierdista de IU. Luego, el intento de liquidar al PP en Galicia, que va …

Yesterday, the PSOE leader on the Basque Autonomic Region, Mr. López, made a proposal to “build the Basque nationality from the integration”, and proposing to call to the Basque Autonomic Region to a referendum with all the consequences. On Mr. López jergon, that means a referendum for the Basque independency.
Before saying anything, let us go back some years. While Mr. Aznar was Spanish Prime Minister, there were elections for the autonomic Basque parliament. I said before on this blog that the separatism in the Basque Country has two faces: ETA and …