Those who place the Franco Foundation under a canopy

What I would like to see happen with the Francisco Franco National Foundation is for it not to exist, not because it's shut down by decree, but so that no one with half a brain or even half a brain would ever get the nauseating idea of maintaining an intellectual racket in support of a dictator. But well, since the tyrant died in his bed, the fact that his hagiographic foundation is being extinguished by euthanasia at the behest of the Spanish government only keeps me up a few minutes because of the democratic dilemma it presents. And I admit that it gives me a certain private pleasure to see the efforts of the most pro-Civil War right-wing media to defend its existence. They don't do it openly; rather, it's noticeable through the accumulation of news stories that give them a platform and amplify their arguments. One particularly amusing example is when they remind us that the Foundation has "the utmost respect for the victims." In reality, they've only done so since 2024, when they changed the statutes because they saw the writing on the wall. And it is very significant that it is said that this utmost respect applies "to the victims of any significance from the historical period of Spain between 1931 and 1977." This range of years is a mockery, of course, which obscures the four decades encompassing the civil war and the dictatorship.

Now we think, for example, what these same media outlets think—and how outraged they are—when the Basque nationalist movement mourns the victims of both sides. Or how they try to stifle any expression or attempt to explain the conflict from a perspective different from the official one. In any case, liquidating the FNFF will not make the Francoists disappear. On the contrary, following the precepts of right-wing populism, victimhood will serve as leverage for them. That is why I would prefer that, instead of an executive order, a man in black and white with a trembling upper lip appear on television and say:Spanish women, the Franco Foundation is dead"