Derechos Humanos/ Human Rights

Today, the globalized world is now lucidly aware of what COVID-19 (Coronavirus) had brought; it has made us all cease, to a hault; it is as if it had put an indefinite pause in our lives. It is clear that we are facing a costly reality, with human, economic and social consequences that nobody dared to predict less than three months ago , given the changing stages that the COVID19 pandemic offers us in each country and their states’ respective responses. Let's focus on people, on how this new "model" of life is already affecting us; a system that has found many of us lose our freedom of movement in effort to drastically stifle the rate of infection, hospitalisation and deaths of the world’s populations. Perhaps we had not thought about this basic freedom before, nor would have thought imagined having to be confined to social isolation, one place for a long and uncertain period of time. When one commits a crime, one can assume that depending on the severity, one ...

Spain is a country, a society, with a history, with its history. But is this history real? When we go around the world, we Spaniards are often known for our cuisine, our culture, our customs, etc. But what about our history? Does the Spanish society know what happened in the period from 1939 to 1975? Do the people who visit our country know the history of Spain? Not at present, not even the majority of Spanish society knows what happened during Franco's rule: the almost 15,000 or 20,000 people who suffered in Franco's concentration camps; the 1,500-3,000 prisoners who were shot; his almost 300 concentration camps scattered throughout the Spanish territory; the thousands of people who tried to take refuge in France but perished in their attempt or were forced to return to Spain, etc. Many times, I hear that it was a Civil War, in which a large number of people died on both sides; and it is true, but the dictatorship comes when Franco assumes power by force and all the people w...

España es un país, una sociedad, con una historia, con su historia. Pero, ¿esta historia es real? Cuando vamos por el mundo, a los españoles se nos conoce, en muchas ocasiones, por nuestra gastronomía, nuestra cultura, nuestras costumbres, etc. Pero, ¿y nuestra historia? ¿La sociedad española sabe lo sucedido en el período que va de 1939 a 1975? La gente que visita nuestro país, ¿conoce la historia de España? A día de hoy no, ni tan siquiera la mayor parte de la sociedad española conoce lo sucedido durante el Franquismo: los casi 15.000 o 20.000 personas que padecieron en los campos de concentración de Franco; los entre 1.500-3.000 prisioneros que fueron fusilados; sus casi 300 campos de concentración esparcidos por todo el territorio español; las miles de personas que intentaron refugiarse en Francia pero perecieron en su intento o fueron obligadas a retornar a España, etc. Muchas veces, escucho que fue una Guerra Civil, en que murió un gran número de personas de ambos ban...