The Arrecife City Council approved in the plenary session this Tuesday a motion presented by the Podemos group in the capital's consistory "to compensate the memory of Petra Cruz". And, "next year marks one hundred years of the infamous crime of the Cruz Sisters, an event that began with the murder of Rosario Cruz and ended with the judicial error that considered her sister Petra guilty", they recall from the purple formation.
In the words of the Podemos councilor, Daniel Cabecera, "Petra was a woman with a fairly advanced mentality for the time" and "today it is still astonishing how Petra could be considered guilty of her sister's murder when, according to the judicial secretary of Lanzarote at the time, it was 'vox populi' that the crime had been committed by Tomás Valiente Morales, Luis Hernández and Marcos Concepción Pérez".
Thus, Petra was, according to Podemos, "a victim of a system of caciques because, it is said that the three murderers were dedicated to collecting votes for the caciques of the north of the island", as Cabecera explained when presenting the motion. "Petra was imprisoned and tortured in Arrecife by a system that did not understand law and equality and in which the powerful believed they could do whatever they wanted", he pointed out.
Dedicate a street to her "so that she never falls into oblivion"
The motion presented by Podemos seeks "to try to compensate for the damage inflicted on Petra Cruz, valuing her figure as a person and making her ordeal known". And, next 2019 marks the first centenary of the unjust imprisonment and death of a woman "whose only crime was wanting to be a woman and enjoy her life". The purple formation has believed it necessary to show a case of this type to the youngest generation of Lanzarote "to delve into the fight against inequality, abuse and any type of discriminatory treatment towards people".
The motion, which was approved with the abstention of PP, CC and Ciudadanos, foresees that the City Council will apologize to the descendants of Petra and Rosario Cruz for the case, that the centenary of the event will be used to value her person and that the possibility of dedicating a street to Petra Cruz with a plaque explaining her story will be studied "so that she never falls into oblivion".
Motion to launch a Municipal School of Music and Dance
The Podemos group in the Arrecife City Council, in the voice of its councilor Leticia Padilla, also presented a motion in the plenary session this Tuesday for the City Council to study the possibility of setting up a Municipal School of Music and Dance.
Municipal schools of this type are centers of education and cultural dissemination accessible to all citizens regardless of their age. The training provided in these centers is aimed at both amateurs and those students who have greater aptitudes and who use the school as a preliminary step to access professional education. In Arrecife we have many adults and children without the means to attend private music and dance schools, so from the City Council we must provide this service" said Leticia Padilla in the presentation of her motion.
From Podemos it is explained that "being non-regulated education, qualifications with academic validity are not issued, which makes it possible to be more flexible when enriching the offer of municipal schools with more instrumental specialties". Padilla is convinced that "this school could promote the creation of municipal groups that through their performances could energize the neighborhoods and project the good results of the same to the citizens".
The motion presented by the purple formation, which was approved unanimously, establishes that the Arrecife City Council will request the necessary technical and financial reports to launch a Municipal School of Music and Dance in the capital. In addition, it includes the possibility of locating the School in existing municipal centers such as the Youth Center or the Civic Center. "If we approach it well, the City Council can provide a quality service", concluded Leticia Padilla.
