Spanish Socialist hypocrisy and the Castro regime
International news outlets today are reporting on the exhumation of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's remains from the Valley of the Fallen. Monument dedicated to the fallen in the Spanish Civil War.
Prime minister, Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE), at a news conference this afternoon said this “ends a moral affront: the exaltation of a dictator in a public place.”
This is the same Prime Minister Sánchez who made an official state visit to Cuba in 2018 and publicly embraced the Castro dictatorship.
Legitimizing the Castro regime is an outrage in and of itself, but the good friendship between communist despot Fidel Castro and fascist despot Francisco Franco is too often ignored.
Both Franco's father and Castro's father had been soldiers who fought in Cuba to preserve the Spanish empire. Castro's father, Angel, according to a 2016 documentary, had a photo of Franco on his nightstand.
In 2016 Catalonia region, TV3 produced a documentary "Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship" that explored this relationship between the two dictators and is available online.
In the documentary it reveals how pro-Castro Cuban exiles were able to celebrate Fidel Castro's triumph in 1959 with a mass protest in Retiro Park in Spain. This was at a time when Spaniards could not do that. Latin American Herald Tribune reports on this and more regarding the TV3 production.
On Franco's death in 1975, Fidel Castro decreed three days of mourning in Cuba, although he made sure that it went unnoticed by the press, it was an official decree signed by Cuban president Oswaldo Dorticós.
This should not be viewed as a "strange" relationship considering that the Castro regime had close relations with former high ranking Nazis.
Wonder if Prime Minister Sánchez will ever raise the history of this good friendship between the two dictators with the Castro regime and demand truth and reconciliation?
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| Fidel Castro and Francisco Franco were close allies. |
Prime minister, Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE), at a news conference this afternoon said this “ends a moral affront: the exaltation of a dictator in a public place.”
This is the same Prime Minister Sánchez who made an official state visit to Cuba in 2018 and publicly embraced the Castro dictatorship.
Legitimizing the Castro regime is an outrage in and of itself, but the good friendship between communist despot Fidel Castro and fascist despot Francisco Franco is too often ignored.
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| Prime Minister Sánchez in Cuba with Diaz Canel in 2018 |
In 2016 Catalonia region, TV3 produced a documentary "Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship" that explored this relationship between the two dictators and is available online.
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| Ernesto "Che" Guevara with Franco's secret police attending a bull fight in Madrid |
Also revealing are accounts by Castro revolutionaries who said that during their struggle against dictator Fulgencio Batista their lives were saved thanks to the help of the Spanish Embassy, as well as images of Ernesto "Che" Guevara walking in Madrid and attending a bullfight with members of Franco's secret police.Following the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when the US pushed for tight economic sanctions on the Castro regime, the rest of Latin America, France and the United Kingdom all went along with the Americans, but Franco's Spain continued trading with Havana.
On Franco's death in 1975, Fidel Castro decreed three days of mourning in Cuba, although he made sure that it went unnoticed by the press, it was an official decree signed by Cuban president Oswaldo Dorticós.
This should not be viewed as a "strange" relationship considering that the Castro regime had close relations with former high ranking Nazis.
Wonder if Prime Minister Sánchez will ever raise the history of this good friendship between the two dictators with the Castro regime and demand truth and reconciliation?
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| Valley of the Fallen in Spain |
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