Luis Fernando Romo
Updated Saturday, March 16, 2024-01:42
Business Pablo Iglesias opens a bar "only for reds" in the Lavapiés neighborhood
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In May 2021, Pablo Iglesias (45) announced by surprise that he was leaving politics: "I am leaving all my positions. I am leaving politics, understood as party and institutional politics."
A few days later a new Pablo appeared.
He had cut his ponytail.
From that moment on, he dedicated himself to collaborating in social gatherings, created his own podcast,
began to express his ideas for future books, founded a new television channel called Canal RED and won a position as associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology. of the Complutense.
But a few months ago he decided to diversify his interests and try his luck in restaurants.
On Tuesday, March 19, the Garibaldi tavern will open its shutters in the Lavapiés neighborhood, a joint that it presented through a tweet recalling one of the famous phrases of the philosopher Karl Kautsky: "Taverns are the last bastion of the freedom of the proletariat ".
Furthermore, Iglesias confessed in an interview with Willy Veleta on Canal Red:
"We are going to set up a bar-restaurant only for reds,
where we can go and have beers."
On this adventure he is accompanied by two friends, the
poet and writer Sebastián Fiorilli and the singer-songwriter and poet Carlos Ávila.
Two names practically unknown to ordinary mortals but with an extensive professional career behind them.
Fiorilli graduated in 2001 from the National University of Rosario in Social Communication and
wrote a thesis in journalism and non-fiction literature.
This Argentine born in Rosario in 1977 is a restless soul who transmits his most intimate thoughts and concerns through words.
In one of his visits to the Casa de América he made it clear that "poetry is a way of supporting the world, it is a very subjective mechanism that
in my case is about supporting the world in a more enjoyable way
and subverting the orders that exist." in society".
And that's what he's been doing since the works of Borges and Neruda came into his veins in his childhood.
He has lived in Madrid for 23 years.
Image of the exterior of the Pablo IglesiasGtres tavern
The singer-songwriter Carlos Ávila was born in Toledo in 1978. During his adolescence he began to play the guitar with some of his friends in the streets of the former capital of the kingdom and between the lines of the staff he would release verses by Gloria Fuertes or Pedro Garfias.
A heartbreak that he did not fully heal caused him to immerse himself in poetry to heal the wounds that healed in several books,
La Paz a Ti Due
(2005) and
Not All Goats Are Crazy
(2010).
At the age of 18 he became independent to study Political Sciences at
the Complutense University in Madrid, a decision that has influenced him when creating topics.
In 2016, he self-financed his first album called
Justicia poética,
with which he wanted to pay tribute to the author's song, and four years later he launched the ambitious project of a book-album titled
Pero lo Nuestro es Cantar,
which includes ten unpublished songs and
an extensive sample of the poems that he has performed the most times.
For Ávila, the figure of the singer-songwriter has a special mission which is to use humor to criticize reality, in his case, the Spanish situation, and create social awareness.
For this reason, he has not hesitated to take a public position on the conflict between Palestine and Israel by writing the song
Free Palestine
with which he denounces the genocide that Israel and the countries that support it are committing.
Last year he was on Sumar's list for Toledo
.
Except for the former politician, nothing is known about the intimate life of his other two partners.
Iglesias, Fiorilli and Ávila embark with enthusiasm on their gastronomic adventure that is named after the XII International Brigade or Garibaldi Brigade that fought in defense of republican legality against the rebels during the Civil War.
Its mission is to create a meeting center where,
in addition to eating and drinking, you can enjoy literary meetings,
poetry sessions, gatherings or small concerts.
To have a better stay, what less than using the menu where their dishes and drinks
have been intentionally baptized with names in accordance with their ideology.
Customers will be able to taste some Brigada Garibaldi cheeks, a partisan salmorejo or some Viva Zapata enchiladas and lubricate their throat with the Evita Martini, the Fidel Mojito or the Pasionaria Puerto de Valencia.
Without forgetting the beers, of course.
Certain sectors of society are already rubbing their hands to see which politicians can drop by the joint since it is close to the Congress of Deputies.
As Iglesias told the EFE agency, the three partners had the sibylline idea of notifying customers of the closure of the establishment with the anti-fascist resistance anthem
Bella Ciao
, which
has been covered by countless artists
.
One of the most unique is the one that Becky G performed three years ago to the rhythm of reggaeton.