A middle class Spanish family on vacation in Carcassonne. They are having a good time and it's all very pretty. At noon they stop to eat at the Ronde Point d'Europe (Lieu dite Renault, N. 113) in a McDonald's. Things that happen. It is economical and children like it. You can't always go to a restaurant comme il faut . Two children's menus. And with them comes a gift book whose title attracts the attention of parents: L'expédition de Magellan . Wow, how good, a book that talks about Spain. Well, no. Not a word. Read carefully the image that accompanies this article, which is the booklet in question.

As the history of Spain is in liquidation by demolition, anyone is good to enter it and appropriate what they want. Not just for the sake of accumulation but because it has value. And letting one's history be stolen is the most obvious sign of the levels of institutional deterioration reached by the State that represents us as a political nation. What Portugal has done with the Fifth Centenary of the round the world is what is done with what is not owned by anyone, which has no owner. And he has done well to take away what is not from anyone to give visibility and prestige to his small country. Because that, as we have just said, has a value, which our rulers seem to ignore. In the future what people will know is that Magellan and the Portuguese were the first to go around the world, a crucial fact in the history of mankind. The website of the Portuguese army tells it very well. The only mention made to Spain is that Magellan was " ao serviço dos reis de Espanha ". Juan Sebastián Elcano is not mentioned more than to say that he was one of the captains of nao Victoria. Anyway: lie is not. But most of the truth is missing.

It is what the booklet of the Hachette publishing house teaches that with the support of the Center National du Livre has been put into circulation by The Marketing Store Worlwide in an exclusive edition for McDonald's with the intervention of HAVI Global Solutions. This is money Business. Value in image and not only in image. This generates business. That the State is seriously affected by balkanization we already knew, but it is seen that companies are also accusing symptoms. The German call HAVI defines it well: " We offer data-based insights and services that combine a strategic long-term view with an unmatched commitment to execution ". Our " long-term view " as a country may be the return to the previous period to written sources, prehistory. Although there are difficulties there too, because we have Altamira and Atapuerca. Well, someone will come to claim them as their own.

The eagerness to erase the footprint of Spain in the history of the world is reaching delusional levels. This would have to be analyzed in depth, but by boat it soon seems to indicate that Spain still looks too much.

In the United States, specifically in California, the operation is colossal. It began in 2017 (officially) when the Los Angeles city council decided that on October 12 it would no longer be Columbus Day because remembering Columbus was paying homage to the horrible discovery of America. Of course, no one regrets the arrival of the Protestant whites (WASP) and does not consider asking for the suppression of Thanksgiving that commemorates it. This symbolic territory is not touched. It belongs to the upper tribe. Then they have taken the name of a street dedicated to the memory of Fray Junipero Serra at Stanford University, but Stanford University does not consider taking off the name she carries, that of a governor who was very close to the indigenous genocide which was perpetrated during the gold rush and not in the days of poor Fray Junipero. Not to mention the origin of his fortune. Strange paradoxes that are not strange at all.

The last deed in this operation not only of erasing but of infamous erasure (as important the noun as the adjective) of the Hispanic past of the United States has been the decision of the University of California Santa Cruz to withdraw the bell that recalled the Franciscan missions and which were the icon of the Camino Real " as a symbol of racism and deshumanization ". It is a decision taken by the University authorities with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. The Amah Mutsun, which have officially existed since 1991, opposed the canonization of Fray Junipero, but it is not known that they have expressed any repulsion towards Lelan Stanford, governor who was from California, and the rest of the US authorities who confiscated the lands of the Indians when this Mexican region was incorporated manu militari to the United States. Of course not. Now they do their role well. And they are serving (and benefiting) to bleach the California genocide that was perpetrated under US administration (see Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe , 2016).

The first bells were sent by José de Gálvez to California to mark the itinerary of the Camino Real and the missions, and then reproductions were made because they became a symbol of that route of communication. The one that has now been withdrawn is one of these reproductions and was solemnly taken from its place, as one who eliminates a Nazi swastika . It is more or less like ending the military stones of the Roman roads. In the immediate future it is a means of communication without which it is impossible to understand the history of the United States. The Camino Real, among many other things, gave title to one of the most funky rock songs of the 60s in the USA, the work of the late Lee Dresser and today played by the German group Smokestack Lightnin '.

The Humunya Foundation of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is a private foundation that receives generous donations that are tax deductible. His tribal chief since 2016 was named Valentín López. Many of its members, which are about 600, have a Spanish name. I have combed the web and have not found a single word about how and when they were massacred or what happened to them after 1848 when their territory was incorporated into the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. All they have to claim and criticize (that "wound in the soul" of which they complain so much about the support of the Catholic Church) is the Hispanic period, never after. As this group there are others who are making fortunes pulled by the universities of the territory and the corresponding authorities. What progress is this indigenismo of cardboard stone and how curious that never cause internal divisions or self-destructive discussions or shame of the past in the WASP world, but in the Hispanic. We are very, very much in need of strategic height thinking.

Today, the bell of the Camino Real has the University and really do not know what to do with it. This is stated by email Sarah C. Lathan, vice cancellor business and administrative services . He says he doesn't know what " the next step with the bell " will be. But the Bernardo de Galvez Association of Malaga has come up with a "next step", which is to buy that bell, painted and everything as it is. For this we ask for help (the reader can donate on the Bernardo de Gálvez Association website: www.yosolo.org). We want to pay generously. Let's see if burying them in money the pseudo Indians and their owners feel happy. It is a language they understand well.

We will bring it to Malaga and put it in a visible place, as a perennial reminder of the acculturation interested to which the descendants of the Spanish-Americans who survived the butchers of the gold rush before their Anglo-Saxon masters; " as a symbol of racism and dehumanization " to which the WASP world has arrived with respect to the Hispanic culture, to which they owe the continent in which they live.

María Elvira Roca Barea is the author of Imperiophobia and black legend: Rome, Russia, United States and the Spanish Empire (Siruela, 2016).

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