When Manuel Mariscal Zabala was born, in January 1992, I was 16 years old and was already studying the third year of Baccalaureate (BUP).<\/p>\n
Manuel and I are not from the same generation. The young people of my generation grew up in a Spain destroyed by terrorism, drugs<\/strong> (which wreaked great havoc in my land, Galicia) and the political corruption<\/strong> of the socialist governments of Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez (whom some now try to whitewash). It was a Spain that seemed to have no remedy<\/strong> and in which socialism and its vices seemed like an incurable disease.<\/p>\n My generation has grown up not knowing what it is like to live under a dictatorship, but seeing how democracy was being destroyed little by little from within by those who claimed to defend it<\/strong>. Those terrible years are the ones that ended up hardening the personality of great people like Santiago Abascal<\/strong> (I'm a few months older than him), who spent a large part of his youth carrying an escort so as not to be murdered by ETA.<\/p>\n I thank God that Manuel has not had to live through the times that many Spaniards have lived through, because many of us have been accumulating a thick skin, based on so much damage, with which sometimes we already seem indifferent to everything<\/strong>. Sometimes, seeing the things that the petty people who govern us do, I think: these scoundrels are not going to be able to take away my peace or my calm<\/strong>. That is why, surely, you never see foul words on this blog. I have become colder and more calculating and prefer to take a long breath before writing. I wasn't like that when I was Manuel's age. And I say it with a certain envy<\/strong>, like when Antonio Machado wrote those verses<\/a>: \"Sharp golden thorn, who could feel you stuck in the heart.\"<\/em><\/p>\n Now, with the approval of the amnesty law<\/a>, we have seen the clearest act of demolition of our Homeland and our democracy<\/strong>. A scandalous, outrageous act that makes many of our blood burn. Faced with something like this, the complaint of some is that Manuel and other members of Vox shouted \"traitor\" at S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> for committing an act of treason as clear as violating our Constitution and trampling on the rule of law to buy his re-election. Instead of blood, some seem to have horchata and in the face of something so serious they only think that no one should raise their voice<\/strong>, lest it wake up the Spaniards who still have a sleeping conscience. It seems that the \"problem\" is not that they destroy your country, but that it hurts you and you say it out loud.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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