The National Holiday of Spain, cultural celebration or exaltation of the conquest? – RT Spanish – international News

“It’s a good time to, knowing what happened, restate the hispanic heritage as a concept of fraternity heritage and a common cultural heritage that we have with Latin America,” says lawyer and activist of Can Alvaro Bustillo.

For his part, the deputy of the Partido Popular for the province of Tarragona Jordi Roca Mas rejects that you have to rethink the concept, since “we cannot judge what happened 500 years ago with the rates we have today.” “The union between Europe and America was an immense exchange for the humanity and positive for both parties,” concludes the deputy of the Catalan PP. The militant we Can disagree with: “you can’t remove the item that had colonization, invasion, massacre and plundering of the natural resources that it had in Latin America” because it would be “a historic injustice”.

The native flag in Madrid, what obsession against Spain?

This Wednesday, the city Council of Madrid has hung in the Board of District Center, the native flag wiphala (used in certain areas of the Andes) to commemorate the National Holiday of Spain.

While Johnson is “a sign of remembrance to the day of indigenous resistance that is also celebrated in Latin America”, Rock argues that it is “a fundamental piece of the strategic political moves we Can and to its alliance with the nationalist parties, that is to eliminate what that means Spain”. “You can put the flag accessory that you want, the pirate or the of the rainbow, but always the obsession is to eliminate the of Spain,” he says.

Is it correct that the National Holiday coincides with the Discovery of America?

With reason of the celebration, Madrid has hosted a military parade and a reception presided over by the kings Felipe VI and Letizia, the Government in functions, and various civil and military authorities of the State. However, increasingly, there are more political parties that refuse to participate in the National Feast, as We may, the Republican Left of Catalonia Basque Nationalist Party or Bildu.

In connection with the absences, Rock But maintains that “all those political forces or because they are populist and want to blame Spain for all the ills or well they want to eliminate everything that represents Spain, for example, of Catalonia, jointly fight the National Holiday” when “all countries it is celebrated as normal”.

For his part, Johnson stresses that what is put in fabric of judgment with respect to the October 12, is “the format of the celebration”, can be used in place of a military parade in Madrid acts decentralized in all the autonomous communities, and highlights the fact that match “a national day itself and the internal of Spain with the discovery of America has reminiscent of another era and other type of readings.” “Today it makes no sense to continue celebrating this day, we could choose another date as that of the Constitution of 1812,” he adds.

In most hispanic countries Hispanic Day or Day of the Race were the names initials of the events held in commemoration of the first sighting of land on the part of the mariner seville, Rodrigo de Triana on October 12, 1492, after having sailed aboard the caravel Pinta, more than two months under the command of Christopher Columbus.