With regard to the last events about so-called separatist 'referendum' in Catalonia, locals and foreigners are wondering (and really do not understand) what happens in Spain. And to give them answers is never easy, but we believe we must try it, because this kind of prolonged agony that seems to suffer Spain imposes plain speaking. Even british Prime Minister Cameron tried to call to sanity asking the unity of Spain, which gives us an idea of how the situation is.
Anyway, let’s see step by step:
- Several european and south american media are spreading a false story in which an alleged 80% of Catalans voted for independence. This is false, basically because not even 30% of catalans have gone to vote, in an illegal farce, where catalan residents in other regions of Spain could not to vote, and where immigrants and children have voted. The polls have been open for several days according to its organizers, and as we have seen in many images, some people have voted several times. And yet, neither it has reached more than 30% for the "Yes". Then, how will want 80% of the Catalan people separate from Spain?
- Truly the Cameron's words are understood after what happened in Scotland. But what Cameron and many others do not know is that Scotland in no way compares to Catalonia. For example, Do you imagine that in Scotland would have been made a referendum for independence from the Hebrides? Well that would be the most serious parallelism that could be done. Catalonia, unlike Scotland, never was an independent kingdom. If you would like to make a real paralelism, an independence referendum would have to do it in the Kingdom of Aragon, ie the current regions of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. The catalan separatists speak about of fictitious "Catalan Countries", which have never existed either historically or even culturally or linguistically, yet they never will dare raise a referendum in these regions they consider their property, because they know that would lose overwhelmingly. Neither Aragonese or Valencian or Balearic people and most Catalans want to separate from Spain, our common and ancient homeland. However, the catalan separatists, in addition to using foul play in his homeland, want to force other regions as well, and without asking opinion.
Returning to Scotland, do you imagine that the separatists say that Scotland also must take Wales and Ireland, without even asking? Well, this is the clearest parallels can be found on this issue.
Furthermore (because some people are so fond to parallels), Would Switzerland break into pieces because of hosting four languages? Not only in Spain several languages are spoken, indeed it happens in most of Europe. In France are also spoken Breton, Provencal and Corsican, even Basque and Catalan. In Germany are spoken Serbian, a Slavic language very minor, and in some areas, Polish, spoken by descendants of immigrants in this country. In Italy are spoken Sardinian, Xeneize, Genoese, Neapolitan ... And don't mention some countries in Eastern Europe. Also in USA some areas already speaks more Spanish than English. And in Peru, which in addition to Spanish, Quechua and Aymara, numerous native languages and dialects are spoken. And the same can be said of all the countries bordering the Amazon river. In North Africa, in addition to an arabic dialect that has little to do with classical Arabic language, spoken more to east from Egypt, is spoken Tamazight, the Berber language. And what about the Black Africa? Do people know how many languages are spoken in China? Even Andorra is a catalan and spanish speaker country!
It means that according to catalan separatist beliefs, no country in the world could be in calm.
Historical ¿Reasons? Let's see how the separatists act: In Andalusia, the so-called "andalucistas" say that all our misfortunes are due to an atrocious conquest by barbarians from the north of the peninsula (among which are Basque and Catalan) that destroyed an idyllic islamic world. However, the Catalan separatists say exhort James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon in the thirteenth century conquered Valencia and the Balearic Islam, and whose help was instrumental in taking Murcia. However, the separatists in both sides say they're comrades. But if they were consistent they would be faced, since the "andalucista" doctrine criticizes the "barbarians of the North", among which are the Catalans ... But apparently, hatred, falsehood and injustice is stronger than knowledge . Anyway, Jaime I the Conqueror, when he wanted to organize a crusade that ultimately was unsuccessful, said: "Barons, we can leave, because today, at least we have left in good stead honor in Spain" (1). We say this because according to the fanciful theories of the separatists, Catalonia was an independent country until 1714, in which the Borbon dynasty annexed Catalonia by force, and becoming Rafael Casanova in a kind of Catalan national hero like "Braveheart" . But at that time Catalonia was part of the Crown of Aragon and was not independent from Spain, and Rafael de Casanova, who struggled because the Archduke of Austria were the king of Spain, proclaimed: "(...) save freedom of the Principality and all Spain; avoid slavery that awaits the Catalans and the rest of the Spaniards under French rule, shedding the blood gloriously by the king, on his honor, for their country and for the freedom of all Spain "; as well remembers Casanova's descendant (2), who doesn't like to use the name of his ancestor to distort history, a history that has ever existed rather than in lying heads. Because what was experienced in Spain in the early eighteenth century was a war of succession, where the Archduke of Austria did not accept the will of Charles II and, aided by the Netherlands and the British Empire, he faced Felipe V, the house of Bourbon, and rightful King of Spain by which Basques (3) and Navarres fought tooth and nail, and whom were rewarded conscientiously.
If we continue in history, in the war against Napoleon, the Catalans fought as one man with the rest of Spain. So much so that Agustina de Aragón, great heroine of this conflict was a full blooded catalan. As José Javier Esparza (4) says: "It's very clear the Catalan case. France, supported by a minority of separatists, offered even declare the Catalan as official language for a conceived Catalonia as an extension of the Napoleonic empire of the south Pyrenees. Facing the French offer, the vast majority of the Catalan population preferred to continue defending Spain and indeed, after the war those separatists had to leave the country as "Frenchified". Recall that Agustina de Aragon was Catalan. The Catalans also fought in the Bruc, in Gerona and many other points, guerrilla bands that became a nightmare for the French. In Catalonia, as in the rest of Spain, people fought for religion, country, crown and freedom, and it was for them one and the same thing, and all by the name of Spain. Equally clear is the case in the Basque Country, where, incidentally, the French repression was very bloody from the first moment. Also from the first moment it was clear the determination of Basques together to defend Spain and the Crown against the Napoleonic invasion. And besides, they do it precisely in the name of their Spanishness. There's an irrefutable document, the proclamation of the Board of Biscay in the same year, 1808, just triggered the insurrection against the French, and is a genuine appeal to the Spanish national unity. It read: "The Spanish Basques others Spanish: we are brothers, one spirit animates us all. Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia, Andalusia, Galicia, Leon, Castile, forget for a moment these same names eternal harmony and do not call yourself, but Spaniards. Receive as incontrovertible proof of the spirit that animates us, the burnt offering to the spanish freedom from the Eguías, the Mendizábales, the Echevarrías and other infinite Basques families".
Agustina Saragossa i Doménech
catalan heroine of the spanish independence
Years later, the Catalans living in Cumaná (Venezuela) would organize and fight to the death to defeat the Bolivarian troops, who wanted to separate Venezuela and other american Spains of the common homeland. And they would with numerous canaries that then became prominent royalist leaders, as was the Spaniard José Tomás Boves.
And in the most contemporary history, It's true that during the early years of the Franco regime there wasn't unfair treat to regional languages, against the advice of many people who were not against the regime. But it passed soon, being that Catalonia was the region that flourished with Francoism, attracting crowds of La Mancha, Aragon, Murcia, Basque, Galician, Extremadura, especially Andalusians, to work in its industry; industry that there wasn't in other regions of Spain, much more dependent on primary resources. And of course, many tributes were made to Franco in Catalan, of which we put illustrated examples:
Plaque honoring General Franco in Catalan language in 1964
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Las fotos no mienten: así agasajaba a Franco el Orfeó Català.
El Barça ¿bastión de resistencia al franquismo? Condecoró ...
Well, we could have saved all these examples because even since before there was a name "Catalonia", the franks named those lands as the Spanish Mark, and "Hispani" to its inhabitants. It was there when it started to form the word "hispani-ol" (español = spaniard) the historic demonym of our homeland. And not surprisingly, from catalan language have come numerous words we use in Castilian - spanish and american lingua franca par excellence -, such as "peseta" (penny), "papel" (paper), "avería" (error), "añoranza" (longing), "butifarra" (sausage), "Capicúa" (palindrome), "linaje" (lineage), "rol" (rol), "reloj" (clock), "turrón" (nougat), and so many others (5).
So things, many people, with quite fair logic, might ask How it have penetrated so many lies, being as clear history, in a region like Catalonia, which until recently was the industrial engine of Spain?. It's one of the many things anybody can understand ... And is that few people can understand that in 1978, the regime leaded by Juan Carlos and Adolfo Suarez, established an electoral law regime unworthy and unfair as D'Hondt Act, which doesnt mean "one man, one vote ", but is governed by a misleading account of constituencies and proportionalities. In a system like the British constituencies, ie one candidate per hundred thousand inhabitants with an obligation to have an office in the territory, and where one man, one vote, separatism would never have gone from being a minority. But it turns out that separatism uses a spanish constituency system where parties with 300,000 votes have more deputies than matches with over one million voters. Also, by law, the state subsidizes political parties, trade unions and employers well. That is: The separatists use an unfair electoral system and taxes of all Spaniards to also impose a crazy educational system which can not be studied in spanish, a language that we share more than four hundred million people, and it is the mother tongue of most catalan families. Furthermore, it is added the system of autonomous regions, each region studied geography and distinct history, and all with differential invented facts ... And on top, receiving state subsidy. Because, if you do not know, the ghostly "Catalan embassies" and the "Basque etxeas" (6), ie, branches of "Basque" separatism also receive government subsidies; of the same State that in Lima, capital of Peru, funds the homosexual associations and "art" expos where they present to Santa Rosa de Lima as a transvestite (7); while thousands of young Spanish graduates are forced to emigrate, unable to return home soon.
All the separatist "catalan" oligarchy is steeped in tragicomic corruption, offshore accounts, in favors and dealings with mafias, and so on. And yet, all they can think of (in a Catalonia where the name "Muhammad" is becoming more common than "Jordi" ,where crime, insecurity and unemployment are rampant, where Islamism grows as foam); is to make a "referendum" that, rather than remembering a genuine Catalonia, ie model region around the Mediterranean, looks like a third-world show, where voted from children to women in hijabs. Total disfigurement for one of the greatest regions of Spain.
And you see, the facts are too clear.
Finally, I can only tell foreign friends who ask me about this topic: What would you think if in your own country, a regional separatist movement was receiving state funding, in an electoral system that continuously benefits them against parties with up to three times more votes; they were having ghostly embassies paid with money from all of you, and against state laws, they were organizing a referendum vote, banning the native residents in other cities to vote, or letting minors vote, and in addition to several times, or newly arrived immigrants vote?. And yet, nor the third part of that region have gone to vote to this farce. And despite everything, much of the international press would say that 80% of the population voted for independence. How would you feel?
Well, this is how Catalonia looks to the whole world. In contrast, although the corrupt state abandons it, a tide of catalans of good will grows and consolidates, thanks, among others, to the movement Somatemps, which is endorsed and energized, among others, by Professor Javier Barraycoa (8). The real Catalonia, full of people and tradition, is barely contained and can not hold more than its name is handled by corrupted people filled with lies and hate; and it's - perhaps - destined to lead a healthy, just and necessary reaction in a Spain punished everywhere. Hopefully so, because as Juan Vázquez de Mella, the great tribune of the Spanish tradition said: "After a terrible May 1, a May 2 will come more glorious than on 1808" (9).
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(1) Jaime I, «el Conquistador - Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa
(2) Una descendiente de Rafael Casanova: "Él era un patriota ...
(3) For example, Blas de Lezo.
(4) España no nació el 2 de mayo - El Manifiesto
(5) Palabras de origen catalán en el castellano - Hispanismo.org
(6) la euskal etxea no es la casa de los vascos - raigambre
(7) Urgente convocación: ¡protestemos contra infame ...
(8) SOMATEMPS | secretaria@somatemps.com
Javier Barraycoa | - DolcaCatalunya
Javier Barraycoa, autor de 'Cataluña Hispana ... - YouTube
(9) Juan Vázquez de Mella - Portal Avant!
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