In Lanzarote, we are used to the island being a showcase for tourists in flip-flops and mediocre politicians, but what happened yesterday at Playa Bastián bordered on the absurd: the far-right organization Hazte Oír decided to fill the sand with umbrellas bearing the face of Pedro Sánchez under the word "corrupt" imitating The Godfather. A shoddy performance, like a cheap version of a themed carnival, only with hatred instead of glitter.
And of course, as always, Hazte Oír doesn't do anything without a purpose. These gentlemen have been financing themselves in the shadows for years and acting as the official mouthpiece of the most old-fashioned integrism. Does it ring a bell? Yes: campaigns against LGTBI rights, transphobic posters, that infamous bus that traveled through cities with the message "boys have penises, girls have vulvas, don't be fooled"... Basically, caveman pedagogy on wheels.
Let's not forget that Hazte Oír is the wayward cousin of CitizenGO, that platform that sends chain emails to stop equality laws and torpedo any social progress. And if we pull the thread a little more, we find well-known names and parties: the right and far-right in Spain —PP and Vox— have looked the other way when they haven't shared the stage directly with them. Because of course, it's always convenient to have a group of radicals doing the dirty work while you smile in the institutional photo.
Pedro Sánchez is on vacation in Lanzarote? Well, let's put on the circus, because the island is beautiful and looks good in the photo. The message is the least important thing: the important thing is the cheap show, the provocation, and the headline. As if filling the beach with umbrellas with insults were a democratic exercise.
But be careful, they have as much democratic spirit as a cobblestone. These campaigns don't seek to "inform" or "open debate", they seek to inflame, polarize, and make it clear that in Spain there are still those who dream of returning to the morality of the sacristy and the NO-DO. And the worst thing is that there are parties that, while acting dignified in public, privately rub their hands because these people stir up the troops and heat up the atmosphere.
In the end, what happened at Playa Bastián was nothing more than a pathetic little play: a group of far-rightists staging a beach pilgrimage against the president. Because when your political argument is reduced to umbrellas with drawings, all you demonstrate is that you have understood just enough about democracy to continue yelling on the sand.
And as always, the same conclusion: Hazte Oír is the hooligan arm of that right that disguises itself as constitutionalist while it agrees, smiles, and rubs shoulders with those who prefer insult to reason. Once again, Lanzarote was an involuntary stage for the ultra circus. And once again, it was evident that the problem is not the umbrellas, but the shadow.
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