WHO will be the next victim of Franco's curse? Some are asked with some frivolity about the slight accident of one of the judges who signed the Supreme Court ruling. (They tell me that he is already recovered).

The truth is that many Spaniards had forgotten Franco. The only ones who had not done so - the extreme left and the nationalists - used it as a mere excuse to delegitimize our democracy and the Transition. Spain is Franco, say Puigdemont and such and such. A rattle that beeps until Amenábar: The ghost of the Generalissimo floats among us. And the vast majority we didn't realize.

Many slide that Franco's exhumation will coincide with the judgment judgment of the Prussian. In one of those mental pirouettes, the Sánchez Government has decided (judges through) that Franco's departure will alleviate the effects of a sentence that, as some predict, will alleviate Catalonia. And with Catalonia they refer to that: the Huns (the others, as always, forget them) who cut highways with their baby grandchildren and honk to annoy the working staff. Also that in Europe, in the world, in the UN nationalist lies will be dismantled. And the international media will talk about how Franco is removed from the grave instead of paying attention to the sentence of Junqueras, Cuixart ... etc.

The problem may be that precisely exhumation can prove nationalism right. The approach: the years since 40 a. of S (anchez), until the day when Claudillo is exhumed (as they called him in that joke that Nati mistral told him) have been a farce of democracy in which we have had twenty years of Socialist governments, a more autonomous regional regime federal than any federation, many gay weddings and even a Franco in a reality like any mortal.

But after taking out Franco what will come. Some speak of resignifying the Valley of the Fallen. There are several proposals beyond the idiocy of the Arlington of Albert Rivera. Apart from the blasting of the cross, some propose to make a center of interpretation (say better: reinterpretation) of the dictatorship, obviating, of course, the civil war in which almost all those who rest in Wallwalks lost their lives. (That was not the case with Franco). And from there, they already know it. There will only be a part of history. Fools can be calm. Franco's curse will fall on everyone.

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