One of the crudest and most manipulative customs of the Spanish left consists of labeling all right-wing discourse as \"Francoist\".<\/p>\n
Its habit of calling anyone who disagrees with the left a \"Francoist\"<\/big><\/p>\n This custom is not recent. The left has been doing this for decades, and within the left, the one that has practiced this habit the most is the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds, a medium that has thrived in the shadow of the different PSOE governments. Today El Pa\u00eds uses again<\/a > that adjective against Vox<\/b>. Let's remember that he already did the same against Adolfo Su\u00e1rez<\/a >, against the PP and against Aznar<\/a> , and years later that newspaper reached the ridiculous extreme of labeling people who died before Francoism as \"Francoists\"<\/a>. Two years ago he even published a delirious article comparing an air parade of the Spanish Air Force with a Francoist bombing<\/a>.<\/p>\n When a media outlet resorts to this kind of attempt to demonize everything the left doesn't like<\/strong>, using Francoism as a form of constant and systematic signaling to impose the dogmas of the left, it doesn't hurt to check if you forget something<\/strong>. And in the case of that newspaper, the oversights in matters of Francoism center on its own company. And since they don't, let's remember here.<\/p>\n Founded with a fortune amassed thanks to Francoism<\/big><\/p>\n One of the most important figures in El Pa\u00eds was Jes\u00fas de Polanco<\/strong> (1929-2007), founder of Grupo PRISA, the newspaper's publishing company. Son of a Francoist military family<\/a >, he was in the founding team of the newspaper, but before that worked in two Francoist institutions<\/a>: the Institute of Hispanic Culture, attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Editorial Escelicer, linked to the General Secretariat of the National Movement (the only party of the dictatorship).<\/p>\n Polanco made his fortune in the shadow of Francoism with Editorial Santilla<\/strong>, founded in 1959, during the dictatorship, as explained by the historian Luis Eugenio Togores last year in El Debate<\/a>:<\/p>\n \"With the educational reform of Minister Villar Palas\u00ed, the General Education Law of 1970, thanks to a leak from the Ministry, Santillana was the only publisher that had the textbooks ready, in accordance with the new law<\/strong > of the new school year, which meant its economic takeoff in the midst of the Franco regime, one of its best-selling books being the Formation of the National Spirit<\/strong>, the only subject that, theoretically, had to serve to indoctrinate young people in the values of Francoism, the dictatorship and the State of July 18.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Togores added: \"The money earned with Santillana, before Franco's death, allowed the birth of Grupo Prisa<\/strong>\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Francoist personalities that promoted the newspaper<\/big><\/p>\n
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