Radio Lanzarote has been embroiled in an absurd controversy in recent weeks, due to an award for its social trajectory that the Cabildo of Lanzarote had approved to grant it.
This has provoked the wrath of an unworthy and dissolute character, who is not satisfied with persecuting and defaming his adversaries but, as Arturo Pérez Reverte would well define, would like to see his family shaved.
A character whose unworthiness only leaves the fact of having lined his friends' pockets ("You need three lives to thank what you have earned with me"), his girlfriend (house on Fajardo street) and himself, having been able to accumulate 100,000 euros in cash living on a public salary.
Returning to the Social Jameo, it is an award that Radio Lanzarote neither sought nor expected, and that recognizes a five-decade trajectory composed of countless protagonists. In addition, the group's companies have achieved important recognitions last year, such as the Gold Medal of the Canary Islands or the Clabe Award for the Best Local Media, so any desire for recognition was more than fulfilled. We assume that the Cabildo will have been moved by the fact that if the Autonomous Community recognizes the 50-year trajectory of Radio Lanzarote, it does not seem unreasonable that the institution of its own location should also do so.
The controversy arises from a false dilemma, created by the unfortunate character, that the granting of the award to Radio Lanzarote prevented it from being awarded to Sor Ana. In our modest opinion, Sor Ana is worthy of much more than the Social Jameo, her actions being worthy of recognition as Adopted Daughter. But the circumstance is that the character, during his 10 years of presidency, was not able to grant her either one honor or the other.
The merits of Radio Lanzarote as a social loudspeaker for 50 years seem little debatable. To cite just a few milestones, local personalities as important as Guillermo Topham, Rafael Ángel Domínguez, Leopoldo Cabrera, Agustín de la Hoz and Agustín Acosta passed through its microphones. There, César Manrique burst in to launch his messages against urbanistic atrocities. The Red Cross ambulances had a small transistor in the car, and through the radio they were warned of where there had been an event or an accident that might require their presence. When someone lost an object, they went to look for it at the station. The microphones were always open to the needs of neighbors, associations and cultural groups, having an essential role in the consolidation of the carnival and the festivals of Los Dolores. Programs of Alcoholics Anonymous or La Ovejita Negra of the mental health association El Cribo are just some examples of initiatives with a high social component. It was even the official channel for lovers to court their suitors.
Despite this, a regulatory loophole has served the character to persecute once again those who do not pay homage to him. Even in this area, it should be remembered that until the transformation in 2011 of sound broadcasting licenses to audiovisual communication licenses, the stations enjoyed the character of public service. With this transformation, the awardees are considered entities of general interest.
But all that matters very little to him. He will continue attacking everyone who does not pay reverence to him, including the intimidated members of his party, and favoring only the most submissive, those who accept to degrade themselves to their maximum expression.