Now that the information highways have opened, whether people like it or not, and we find out just as much about what is happening in Argentina as in Barcelona, by just searching a little on the Internet, it gives the sensation that we are being treated like third-world citizens or they are making fun of us.
It is well known that everything has entered Podemos, as evidenced by the people from the Canary Islands who joined their lists in the European elections. Where we found from famous "leftists" to bank advisors who do not know how many mortgages they will have pawned off. Worse has been after the publication of surveys and the route without clear ideological foundations that the direction of pablemos has marked.
The professional political rhetoric that their leaders exert plays to please everyone, falling into continuous contradiction in their speech. In Argentina they criticize Spanish and other foreign companies, talking about "neocolonialism", they would not dare to make that speech in Spain, using Argentina and Spanish companies as an example. In Catalonia, the general secretary of this party has landed, speaking of the "right to decide" of the Catalans. In Euskal Herria or the Canary Islands, would he also do it?
In the Canary Islands, in the referendum on joining NATO, it sent a resounding no to the Atlantic Military Alliance. However, today we are the largest geostrategic base for NATO soldiers below southern Europe. We are used as a training ground, as a supply point or as a springboard to send troops to other African countries. And we do not know how many times it will have been done as a transatlantic stopover point for secret missions.
In the Canary Islands, Podemos does not have the courage to speak of neocolonialism or colonialism, it is not going to accuse any Spanish company of over-exploitation, nor to mention anything similar to the right to decide of the Canarian People. For the simple fact that they are Spaniards who are going to continue cruelly exploiting this Archipelago, as they have always done.
From Spain, the case of the Canary Islands is reduced to an economic issue. As long as the fiscal balance leans in their favor, as long as the money that is returned in the form of subsidies ends up diverting parts to another side, favoring speculative silence, or continues to be a market where they can sell their surplus (even if it is with prices below costs), the colony has economic justification.
In addition, there is a profit for rent and sale, or rent with an option to buy, with which Spain puts many international interests in the Archipelago. Not only those of the exploitation of hydrocarbons, or the military themselves who also turn us into a permanent military objective, almost a war zone. Furthermore, on the other hand, every time Spain speaks of international scientific interests concentrated in the Canary Islands, selling our graceful geographical situation, it negotiates with our sky, with our sea and all our territory and natural wealth, as it did before with Cuba or the Sahara. With the clear intention of seizing our future and continuing to profit from here until we are no longer Spain.
In the Canary Islands we have assembly citizen options that can also be independentistas and will guide us towards emancipation as a People. It is about time that we become aware of reality and begin to forge our own future.
*Pedro González Cánovas, member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC)
