El Pardo is not a bad place. Its vegetation of Mediterranean forest sweeps in spring and draws melancholy in these autumn days that we have just released. With the first rains has also come the bellowing of the deer and the hoarseness of the fallow deer, the noisy courtship of the masters of this mountain, with the permission of the wild boars, which rises above the silence of an unchanging landscape. A lung for Madrid of holm oaks, pines, cork oaks and jaras that only let us tread a little more than 5%. The rest is National Heritage and perhaps that's why it still continues to give oxygen to the polluted capital. In this district of the city, before town, the dictator lived for 35 years and his cemetery seems to be going to stop his bones. Simply, to the crypt in which he wanted to be buried .

The Valley of the Fallen was not a place of pilgrimage, nor will it be its new grave, nor has it been the palace where he lived, that of El Pardo, where until recently he could visit his bedroom, the Council room of Ministers and even his fourth bathroom. What better place than his house-museum have had his devotees to pay tribute to the Generalissimo .

The Supreme, with his unanimous sentence, did nothing but ratify what Congress approved in September without any opposition. The abstention of PP and Citizens was more for the forms than for the bottom, it was more for the opportunism of the president than for the exhumation itself. The test, yesterday, when Sanchez crossed a path between the village and the pathetic to include it as a great achievement of his government in his speech to the UN General Assembly.

Historian Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz says that a dictator cannot be buried with honors, which is a shame for this country. The Tomb of Cuelgamuros was a tribute to the general and his dictatorship. This was planned. The problem is not how and where Franco was buried, to which the Spaniards let us die in bed as a dictator and before whose body paraded endless lines of conspicuous citizens; The problem is the 44 years we have taken to get him out of there. In a vignette that says it all, Idígoras and Pachi yesterday drew an Arias Navarro in 1975, announcing on a 2019 television the laconic "Spaniards, Franco has died" through which we learned of his death. "How strange, it comes out in color," the viewer exclaims. Well, let's go to something else. In the campaign we have over, too. It is well known that Franco never wanted to know anything about elections.

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