#spanish independence

[nipuni]

Photos at Madrid's Victory ball! 💃

We attended our first ball! It was such a dreamlike experience!! It was also our first time doing Regency reenactment so it was a challenge. We haphazardly put together some looks, had a great time learning more about the fashion and the dances and met a bunch of lovely people from all over the world. The palace was stunning, the live band was wonderful and the food delicious, it was an unforgettable night 🥰

[sarielsnowings]

Preview of my piece for the Claveles Zine 🩸👁️ [PREORDERS NOW OPEN!]

An amazing project showcasing a bunch of incredible Spanish artists ✨

Preorders will open next week (check it out here) and it’ll be available as digital and physical zine in different languages, along with beautiful merch goodies!

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Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Iliana Fox Las Aparicio (2015) Directed by Moisés Ortiz Urquidi

[mxwhore]

feliz 18 gente

[crepegosette]

Can we get something with Canada and Uruguay? Heard they're similar in historical aspects

they'd be a funky duo

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

National Treasure (2004, Jon Turteltaub)

27/06/2024

[useless-catalanfacts]

1st of March, 1936.

People on the streets of Barcelona (capital city of Catalonia) welcoming the president of Catalonia Lluís Companys and other members of the democratically-elected government of Catalonia, who had been arrested and jailed after the October Events (Fets d’Octubre) of 1934.

Context: As the Spanish government became more and more conservative, leaving important decision-making positions to fascists and reactionary monarchists, Catalonia was leaning every time more towards the left and republicanism (anti-monarchy). The Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) party had won the elections in Catalonia and the anarchist union CNT kept growing in members. The difference was absolute. And it got even worse when the Spanish Government cancelled the newly approved law of the Catalan Government that protected landless agricultural workers against the abuses of landowners (the Spanish Government claimed that important decisions like this were exceeding the power of a regional government, even when Catalonia’s inhabitant massively claimed in favour of this law).

To put an end to this situation, the government of Catalonia organized a Revolutionary Committee (Comitè Revolucionari) with people from many different Catalanist organizations to prepare a response. Most trade unions declared a general strike against the Spanish government and, on October 6th, Lluís Companys went on the balcony of the Government of Catalonia (the balcony overlooks a big square where a huge crowd had gathered) and declared the Catalan state inside the Spanish federation.

As a response, the Spanish government declared the state of war in Catalonia and sent the army to arrest all the Catalan government. The Spanish army shot against the population who was defending the institutions, killing 74 people and injuring 252, including members of the Catalan Proletarian Party, the Communist Party of Catalonia, Catalan State, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Block, the CNT, and other civilians. On the other side, the revolutionaries who defended themselves from the army killed 12 soldiers and 2 military policemen (guardia civil), and 10 civilians who died as part of crossed fire.

The Catalan State only lasted 10 hours. The Spanish army, on top of killing and injuring all those people, also arrested more than 3,500 people, including all members of the democratically-elected Government of Catalonia, many mayors and MPs, and leaders of other Catalan leftist parties and unions. The members of the Government of Catalonia were judged and sentenced to 30 years of prison, the Government of Catalonia was abolished and Catalonia became direct subject of a Spanish military governor chosen by the Spanish government. 129 city councils around Catalonia, where the election winner had been ERC, were also abolished and given to conservative parties. The Spanish government also used the opportunity to once again impose Spanish as the only language to be used in official documents in Catalonia (during the Republic, Catalan had been legalized); ban many of the most popular Catalan newspapers, including La Publicitat, L’Opinió, La Humanitat, El Diluvio, Solidaridad Obrera (this one is the CNT’s newspaper) and La Rambla; turned the Parliament of Catalonia into a military barrack; prohibited the activities held by pro-Catalan/leftist parties, unions and associations and closed their headquarters. Of course, they also made sure that the law that protected the agricultural workers remained illegal, and did 1,400 trials against landless agricultural workers affected by this law to evict them from the fields.

The Spanish Government didn’t lift the state of war in Catalonia until April 1935. The Government of Catalonia was restored but with little power, it wouldn’t get back the power that it had before the October Events (which, as you saw, already wasn’t that much) and restore democracy in Catalonia until the general elections of February 16th 1936. The leftists won the elections and the people in prison for the October Events were given an amnesty, this is where the pictures you saw above are from.

However, this reinstalled (partial) democracy did not last for long. The fascist Spanish nationalists are sore losers and couldn’t accept that the right-wing had lost the elections in Spain, so they did a coup, starting the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The war would be won by the fascists, starting a fascist dictatorship that lasted until 1978, based on the concepts of national-Catholicism, anti-labour, hatred of national minorities like Catalans, and strict patriarchal gender behaviour codes.

Knowing that they would be killed if found by the fascists, Lluís Companys and the rest of members of the Government of Catalonia left Barcelona at the last moment, when the fascist troops were entering the city. They escaped to France, but the Spanish fascist government asked the Gestapo (secret police of Nazi Germany) to search for them and sent them to Spain. In August 13th 1940, the Gestapo found Lluís Companys in Paris, arrested him and sent him to Madrid (Spain’s capital city). He was judged by a military court-martial and sentenced to death, and the next day he was executed. He was 58 years old. His last words, right before getting shot, were “for Catalonia!”.

Lluís Companys is the only democratically-elected president to have been executed by a fascist government in Europe’s history. Between the entrance of fascist troops in Barcelona (January 26th 1939) and Lluís Company’s execution (October 15th 1940), the Spanish fascist government had already officially executed 2,760 people in Catalonia, and more would follow.

In the centre of the photo, Lluís Companys (the one wearing a beret) receiving a flower bouquet upon his return to Catalonia after the amnesty.

(Photos: Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona)

[grecoromanyaoi]

AFAIK Portugal still allows requests of citizenship based on Portuguese Jewish heritage, Spain is the one that stopped doing it.

ohhhh what i heard is that like started doing it bc they wanted more citizens then realized the majority of ppl getting said citizenships were lower n middle class brown israelis n they went like u know never mind actually

[theersatzcowboy]

Bloody Moon / Die Säge des Todes (1981)

Cult horror maestro Jesús “Jess” Franco blends the beautiful and the abhorrent with this visually stunning cult slasher once branded a “video nasty.”

Director: Jesús Franco

Cinematographer: Juan Soler

Starring: Olivia Pascal

[vtuberconfessions]

The Vtuber of the day is Gumae! She is a Bunny girl artist and rigger! She streams on Twitch in Spanish and English as an indie!

Her twitter if you want to check out her work:

[nipuni]

At the Retiro park on may 4th for more battle reenactments and a picnic! There were several hundred reenactors! it was a record number this year and walking around the park seeing soldier camps and groups of both gentry and working class reenactors as far as the eye can see you could tell!! We played historical outdoor games with sticks and hoops, danced to live music played by some of the soldiers who joined us and brought some instruments, had a delicious meal and ice-cream at the park and then tea at a restaurant, a lovely day! 😊

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Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Comandante Benjamin Bel Canto (2018) Directed by Paul Weitz

[rabbitcruiser]

Catalonia declared independence from Spain on October 27, 2017.

[mallahanmoxie]

bridgerton lends itself to extraordinary self-insert escenarios which very little media can replicate, namely that of me finding a spaniard to have a duel of honour with because it just so happens that the Mexican independence war is being fought right at the same time the bridgertons are falling in love and i am not leaving that stone unturned

[kaiarose89]

Arrebato (1979)

Director: Iván Zulueta

[vroom-vrooms]

Happy Birthday to this beautiful man 🌶️✨