'La Razón' interviews Francisco Franco

Okay, I cheated with the headline because it's about Francisco Franco Martínez-Bordiú, the dictator's grandson, but considering the tone of the interview—gentle to the point of being overly affectionate, flattering to the point of discomfort—it doesn't really make that much difference, and it all seems like the fulfillment of a longing to have the man in the newspaper. No questioning of his figure, no reference to the repression, the executions, the institutional coup that brought him to power. In fact, a substantial part of the questions weren't even questions, but rather statements served up for the other person to take advantage of: "This very November, President Sánchez intends to erase Franco by force of Official State Gazette"Or 'A plaque like that [which distinguishes Franco's birthplace] shouldn't be a problem.'

The historical revision is outrageous. And although one doesn't expect someone to denigrate their own grandfather, reading how he says that "the new socialist left, already radicalized, has sought confrontation on good terms" is quite something.Reds, Freemasons, Catalans!– It was precisely about dividing into two camps. And strangling the other. The squeaky-clean Franco dares to claim that the Valley of the Fallen was a place of reconciliation, and the interviewer doesn't even flinch. Just as he lets the narrative of "everyone had an apartment under Franco" be peddled, without a single follow-up question about the economic paradigm of the sun-drenched Spain of the 1960s. Thus, on the day commemorating half a century since the end of a regime without free elections, we find that the newspaper gives a platform to someone who ends up censoring all political parties wholesale. We're screwed: much better to send them away under a canopy, of course! With coverage like this, the newspaper's only option left is to offer a nostalgic little mustache on Sunday.