President-Elect Barack Obama is to have a street named after him in a Spanish town as part of a nationwide move to abandon symbols of General Franco's dictatorship. The central avenue in Naquera, a town of 5000 people in the eastern region of Valencia, is currently named after Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the right-wing Falange movement and Franco's ideological mentor.But under the Law of Historical Memory brought in by the socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero last year, all statues, plaques and symbols of the Franco regime must be removed.
The central avenue in Naquera, a town of 5000 people in the eastern region of Valencia, is currently named after Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the right-wing Falange movement and Franco's ideological mentor.
But under the Law of Historical Memory brought in by the socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero last year, all statues, plaques and symbols of the Franco regime must be removed.
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Everybody needs to chill out. I know people are asses and elbows to write the book on the Obama presidency in the blogosphere, and I know leaders in other parts of the world -- especially (and understandably) Yurp -- can barely contain their relief at getting rid of the Worst Preznit EVAH and getting someone who is at least in the same ballpark as they are on issues like climate change and not randomly blowing up Mid-East countries.
But we still have a long way to go. Bush is still in office until January 20th, and, after Katrina and Iraq and the financial crisis and on and on and on, people are kidding themselves if they don't think he's got one more giant fuck-up in him. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
