Daniel J. Ollero Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-18:42

"Former vice president: we demand the immediate withdrawal of the Durruti cocktail or the anarchist proletariat will take action - Durrut's friends."

With this brief statement in graffiti format,

unidentified anarchist groups have vandalized the new business project of the former Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias

, hours before its inauguration.

Named Taberna Garibaldi, it is

the second company created by the historic leader of the purple group after leaving the political front line

.

It is a bar with a menu of provocative names that appeal to the communist, anarchist imagination and even with references to the nationalist left to refer to vegan dishes with names like "No Me Llame Ternera", in a clear nod to the title of the documentary from Netflix starring the historic leader of ETA who fled in France from Spanish justice.

The store,

located at number 8 Ave María Street

in the Lavapiés neighborhood (Central district), is scheduled to open tomorrow, March 19.

A project defined by Iglesias in an interview with reporter Willy Veleta as a "bar-restaurant only for reds, where we can go and have beers."

An "old thing,"

he clarified, "where we can make the stews that we like."

A venture by the purple leader for which he has partnered with the poet Sebastián Fiorilli and the singer-songwriter Carlos Ávila, in which the names of the dishes make references to political figures such as the

"Viva Zapata" enchiladas or the "Brigada Garibaldi" cheeks.

Tapas from the Garibaldi Tavern.Garibaldi Tavern

However, it is in the nomenclature of the cocktails where historical political references are used by Iglesias as a commercial claim to promote their cocktails.

In this way, we find drinks such as "Fidel Mojito", "Che Daiquiri", "Mandela Zulú",

"Ludmila Vodka"

or "Durruti Dry Martini".

It was precisely the use of the name of the historic leader of the CNT as a marketing element that would have angered anarchist groups who, through graffiti, wanted to warn the founder of Podemos about the contradiction that, in their opinion, using

the figure of the famous Leonese who died during the Civil War

to earn money by selling glasses.

A Durruti Dry Martini that, curiously, was praised by Veleta in a post on Twitter shortly after the launch of Iglesias' new business project became known: "A tavern whose Dry Martini's last name is Durruti.

This Pablo Iglesias knows how to take care of me

," he wrote in a message accompanied by emoticons of red and black hearts and a closed fist.