Inside Spain's far-right battle ground: 'When Franco was alive, it was safer'
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2019
- Vox became the first far-right party to win more than a single seat in Spain's parliament since the Franco era when it won 24 in the general election. Last week, it fought its first mayoral campaign in El Ejido, a town in Andalucía with a population of 90,000 people, 30% of whom are migrants. Many of them work in the 150 square miles of greenhouses that surround the town. We follow the campaign and talk to Spaniards and migrants to find out why this socialist stronghold of 40 years is turning to the right.
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The fact that owning a flag is seen as unusual is weird to me
Americans are very patriotic compared to Europe
In Spain owning a flag it's fine, what it's not seen right are vox supporters
@@angelmatesmolan todo el que lleve la bandera de España es un facha para vosotros
@@rewernan no, no tengo problema con la bandera, tengo problema para que se use, es un simbolo estatal y nacional, no partidista
@@rewernan Y para ti todo rojo es un traidor a la patria. No llegamos a ninguna parte generalizando.
Fun fact: Youth unemployment in Spain is at 40%, work is needed for their own people
Fight for your country. I have family out there. Half Spanish half Swede by blood Spain is a beautiful country. Stopping the influx of migrants will help we have this problem in the US as well
Same for Greece
It is the same debate everywhere. The real question you have to be asking your self is why do migrants come over. They aren’t surviving on thin air. They are being employed either illegally in the black market economy or being employed legally in very low paying back breaking jobs. Either or it is mostly locals who are providing that employment. Someone is benefitting massively from this human trade. It is Spain itself that is providing the supply of jobs otherwise they wouldn’t come.
We aren´t paid enough because all the money is going to the politicians pocket and to help the illegal inmigrants
I agree that imigration needs to be controled but I dont think its the reason why there are so many job-less people. If you want to solve the unemployment crisis in Spain we have to make our country more business friendly, lower taxes and the minimum wage and investors will come to Spain just like moths flock towards light, as long as there´s a stable uncorrupt government people will invest.
"Look at the old men, they love it."
Coz the one who hated him in the past are dead coz franco
Dumb
Young men like me love it too
I love it that they love it! Proud of those old boys.
@@Awikenano1 that's not true, whoever reads you isn't going to research and is going to believe you. Franco freed the prisoners during the 50's, those who didn't commit crimes during the 2nd Republic and some even entered politics.
If this was meant to degrade Vox it didn’t do an amazing job.
He played his anthem and complained about unlimited immigration into his country. In the gaurdians eyes he might as well be Hitler.
@@johnprice9072 it wasn't meant to degrade or defend vox, it is a diary, a look into a political battleground removed from opinions. It's raw and documents a reality removed from what something like the sun, fox or cnn would have shown
@@nromk Ah yes that's why they call it a "far-right battleground"
@@theotheagendashill818 But vox is far-right as far as I’m aware. So that is a factual statement, not an opinion.
@@_FsEk Far-right according to far-left "people".
Spain is a really beautiful country, really
was
@@claire5481 it's, I'm Spaniard and all that people don't represent what Spain is
Mario Jimenez Muño Yes we do
@@mariojimenezmuno4941 yes we do VIVA FRANCO
If it's Spain, it's right wing. If it's Britain or America, it's mainstream.
It's true tho, countries under dictatorships have very little crime.
Internalbias43 WT well because they are afraid of the government and police.
I mean yeah, during the dictatorship all the crimes were committed by the dictator
@@user-cn8ie5cv9j
But some are under the military works and police brutality that causes human rights.
@Jay Dire lol look up anything about the Spanish dictatorship of Franco, he literally killed all the people that didn't agree with him
Even china has some of the lowest crimes in the world..probably even less than some scandinavian paradises...but its communists dictatorship
Driving through town with a huge unapologetic flag blaring the music from the old pre-neoliberal regime is incredibly based.
Exactly my thoughts. I lost count of how many times I said based during this video.
Viva espana
ok facha
@@skymtzviva espana
I love Spain, though we are a former Spanish Colony and the only Spanish Colony that doesn't speak Spanish :) but a large portion of our language has Spanish words/origin
Where are you from? Philippines?
@@requiem5151 yes, you got it right 👍
We're the only former Spanish Colony that doesn't speak Spanish even we're under their rule for like more than three Centuries
@@cent7169 because of Americans.
@@cent7169Filipino men do like the American men😏
The Philippines were not a colony
Me, being a native Spanish speaker, still reading the subtitles in English...
it's fun to read
I feel like that when I see videos about my country, India. By the way, I'm learning Spanish, and the subtitles are very helpful
And you should, so you can point out the lies ("mistranslations"), that so often happen with topics like this one and "refugees"...
Never knew Ezra Klein and his buddies started a far right movement in Spain.
Ò ʌ Ó Lol 😂
Notice how the people who actually lived under far right rule want it back
@The Ranter Salazar literally made modern portugal, too bad it's a shitshow now without him
@@jonasastrom7422 umm... you seem to be pretty misinformed. I don't think Germans want the far right back. Also these far right people in Spain represent a minority seeing how the Spanish Socialist Party is still in power.
@@pj5295 You seem misinformed if you think francos spain and hitlers germany are comparable
@@jonasastrom7422 because Franco didn't have aggressive foreign policy? They were both Authoritarians who crushed dissent
@@jonasastrom7422 Uh ask portuguese what they think......
Franco wasnt that bad, he kept Spain out of the war as well
That was an error. If he entered he could've saved Europe from the Russians and the Anglo-Saxons.
@@lucasgrey9794 Considering Spain had just emerged from a civil war, and heavily relied upon American crop imports, a Spanish entry into the war would be quite like Italy’s performance.
A soft underbelly, leaving Axis forces tied up on another front.
Hastening Germany’s decline.
Still wanted to eliminate Basque and Catalan languages.
@Farther Ted It's not like the defeat of Italy and Germany led to Europe's enemies taking over the continent or anything. Oh wait!
@@lucasgrey9794 The Anglo-Saxons are long long gone, they haven't existed for centuries.
Its the same in the uk, every other nation in the uk can have a flag up but werent not allowed to have a english flag up because its “offensive” weve lost our identity.
If you need to rely on doing performative showmanship of the flag to keep your national identity, then I'm sorry to inform you that your sense of national identity is pretty feeble to begin with.
A nation is more than a flag, a territory and a race, but if your brain is too smooth to grasp that concept then I'm afraid there's nothing else I can do for you.
@@granudisimo a nation is literally a people that’s the term origin bonded by blood. A flag is just a symbol for the people. The fact that people like you are so offended by this is because you are upset by what it symbolises. You want to destroy the nation,
@@granudisimoDo you also have a problem with LGBTP+ doing performative showmanship by waving their flag?
@@rojiblanco299 Except that's not a national identity, it's a decades long, political resistance and civil rights movement.
Not even remotely comparable, not to mention that the rainbow flag is an international symbol that's the same, regardless of the country it's being waved.
Flags aren't performative themselves including country flags, but they both can be used performatively, like patriotic capitalist right wingers moving their factories to the third world, and corporations putting the rainbow flag while still lobbying for homophobic politicians that though homophobic, they also lower their taxes...
You got a lot to learn on basic political science if you wanna have a real conversation about how society and its symbols work.
If you don´t understand the concept of "far-right", why trying a report on it at a foreign country?
The level of insanity...
Ironically, The Morrocan “Regulares” of the Army of Africa were some of Franco’s best troops
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Because those morrocan were brought to help spain
Pero sabian que si se " colaban " Franco les cortaba los 🥚🥚, igual que a cualquiera y reinaba la paz y la armonia.
Yes, they, their knives and their (male chickens) were very feared by the Reds.
Just like a Requete fresh from Communion.
@@manuelcorteganarodriguez7654 y el hambre y la miseria , jaja facha
As a Mexican, if we had Franco we would love him
Agreed well done 👍🏼✅
Mexico would be prosperous as Spain.
@@stevenlee5673 with that monarchy Spain has it not Mexico don't need it don't want it
@@golfwang2566monarchy makes the country more stable tho
@@enlosluceros7236 stable I don't think so according to the citizens of Spain some want the monarchy to end
Is it weird for American people too hear Spanish speaking people complaining about immigrants
No they do that in Texas, too
Makes no sense because Spanish comes from Europe
And we will keep doing it, yes.
"No one gives me anything, only my work gives me something"
I think the migrant saying this like it's a bad thing sums up a lot of the problem.
Maybe because they're dependent on their job to survive while the state does nothing?
@@Alaskan-Armadillo ya mean they have to work for a living like normal people?
@@When_did_they_add_handles With this logic why does anyone need a government if all you need is a job?
@@shakir1998 If everyone should just do his job, then that includes the government. And with your logic, if everyone is entitled to the same right as real citizens, then why does the citizenry exists?
@@shakir1998 First you do the effort and then you receive the benefits
Love to Spain!! 🇪🇸✝️🇺🇸
Love to America too… but give us Puerto Rico and Guam back!!!
@@mr.battledroid2195 ok. I want Cuba though!!
@@American_Traditionalist1527 im sorry but no…
Has a Hispanic I wouldn’t accept Cuba, the heart of the former Spanish empire being a colony of the US.
US cultural erosion would take place in the island just as its taking place in Puerto Rico.
The us can get any other nation, but laying a finger on a Hispanic nation is wrong
@@mr.battledroid2195 ok. Well I want Greenland, Canada, Iceland.
@@American_Traditionalist1527 as you wish
spaniards alway helped us irish people and theres great respect between our 2 countries
also 8:28 hes 92 and he said it was better under franco, you cant make that up.
Was it because of Franco or was it because times were different around the world, the economy was less stagnant pehaps. People alwyss look back with rose tinted glasses.
@@cenburry2811 Nah it's because Franco was better
@@monroecorp9680 so I guess you'd enjoy not electing your leaders and not having freedom of speech
@@cenburry2811 for regular people that values everday's life (employment, security, housing) the most, for sure.
@@nachopulp Nah but Franco didn't provide that
Greetings from Hungary brothers
I hope Our Homeland Movement and Vox can unite their powers 🇭🇺🇪🇸
Weirdo lol
It was Franco who wanted to send troops to help the Hungarian people during the Hungarian Revolution but USA and allies said NO
They want to keep out hungarians too
@@uralwong799 False. Only gypsys
@@uralwong799 Only gypsies, "Ural wong"
Long live Spain !!!
I imagine what kind of "conservatives" those were if they are not with Vox, they must be the corporate liberals.
what?
The Army of Africa was to play a key part during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Along with other units in the Spanish Army, the Army of Africa rose against the Second Spanish Republic and took part in the Spanish coup of July 1936 on the side of the Nacionales. On 18 July 1936, General Francisco Franco assumed the supreme command over this force.
And now the descendants of those who fought on the side of Franco’s Nacionales want to deport the descendants of the Army of Africa. Do you realise how fickle politics is? There is no loyalty afforded to anyone. Everyone defends their own self interest. That Army of Africa were just pawns in someone else’s battle. Do you honestly think that people are going to value Africans and what their descendants did the instant their numbers rise above a certain percentage of the population? Of course not!
Sorry, that last use of the word “descendants” should have been ancestors.
I thought Vox the news channel
FunkyDoolittle Me Too Man
That trash is very left wing leaning. It would be impossible.
There's no Spanish Vox, we're talking about two different things here, the Vox in question is a political party that began after a member of the PP (People's Party) was expelled for being too far right.
12:28 There's a Spanish /pol/ lol
That's whatspp messenger
Just a minor point, but since when is a town of 90,000 considered small?
There's still hope.
"Anywhere but Madrid"
Jericho Jezza yup. Family friend in Spain, upper middle class dad, said he would vote for Vox if this Catalonia stuff kept getting serious
@Jericho Jezza Not quite. Vox is voted usually by the working class and the upper class. To be more precise, the working class that live in areas with a lot of immigration from the Magreb and South Saharian Africa. That's because VOX are in favor of controlling our borders and put a full stop to ilegal immigration in oppose to other parties.
@@raultamudo160 Do you vote for Vox?
@Pro Shooter ew
ⵟⴰⵔⵉⵇ Elijas gonna cry?
Nationalism is not a crime
Love from Philippines 🇵🇭
No one wants to go to the Philippines, in fact, most are trying to leave so please.
Nationalism is a blinding force lol
You canike your country, don't overlook its faults or act like being a citizen makes you superior
Not a crime but a threat for human rights
@jasper426 you missed the point. I'm saying nationalism itself is not a crime but it is a threat to human rights: it can lead to crimes. I dont know if Im clear enough
@@angelmatesmolan Aughhhhh!!!
"unlisted"? nani
gee it's almost like mass immigration is not a great idea and has some nasty unintended consequences
It definitely is, look at wgat happened to the native indians in America, or the Aboriginals in Australia. NATO/America is bad too for destabilizing so many regions in this world with their endless wars,sanctions,coups ..etc. and creating this migration crisis.
@@jameswhiteley6843 you vote for the elite.
it's almost like people are stupid , and think there's a mass immigration problem
"Mass migration" is not going to stop wether you like it or not when global economic inequality is so big.
@@mateosanfitz9625 liberals love it when you feel powerless
The US could use a Franco right about now.
@Matteo Viatte The US constitution wouldn't allow a dictatorship to arise you fool
@Matteo Viatte trump is not like Franco at least in some ideals, and how they act. trump isn't a competent leader, I believe we need a Franco in the U.S but trump is definitely not the person to do the job, has to be a person who shows respect for all nationalities, knows how to improve and run the government, and focus more on the people. issue is people are going too far left and too far right and both criticize all of their thoughts even though there are great ideals on both sides of the spectrum.
@@chelseacomps829 who cares about the constitution?
And Spain
@Ryan Brunker You would say that.
Philippines was a former Spanish colony. After all the atrocities, still thankful for giving us a Christian morality at least.
What was wrong with your native morality if I may ask.
No accountability for the destruction of a culture at hands of a foreign plague…it’s the SPANISH that need to change to meet the needs of the other…that’s the message people hear and we’re surprised that they express adoration for Franco? Why?
Spain for the Spanish 1st..
DEPORT THE TRAMPS
Arriba España! Saludos desde Filipinas 🇪🇸🤝
🇵🇭
Viva Filipinas desde España 🇪🇸 🇵🇭
Bonifacio and Tagalogist Asslickers: TRIGGERED
Que dice el colonizado?
@@jimmypicapiedra A alguien de catalán no le gustó mis palabras. Jajajaja
@@Excalibur-ri8rm a mí gomez no me parece ser un apellido muy catalán😝
Vota VOX!
Acaso hay otra opción?
Lo que no entiendo es como no sacan 90% de votos con semejante estercolero...
No.
@Hanzee Dent ya salio el tonto traidor.
Das pena amigo.
Indigenous Europeans standing up! defend your people, culture, and safety!
Viva España
5:25 this guy is speaking facts
The guardian, your far-left news.
Looks like Europeans are tired of having to treat everybody equally
Looks like europeans want to protect their sovereignty
@Jericho Jezza Invaders usually have guns and armies, calling immgrants invaders doesn't help the migrant crises, which isn't limited to Europe or the USA, countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Mexico, Turkey, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Malyasia, the Philippines, and India actually see more migrants themselves. In fact over a third of Jordan's population is none native
@Jericho Jezza They're both smarter than you are
@@nromk the problem is that is very different someone going from Perú to Argentina than someone from Morocco to Spain
@@lore9828 and yet both moracans and other Africans experience the same type of discrimination as Peruvians do.
It's the same story everywhere and each time the foreigner in the countries behave entitled and defiant
Which is why they have to leave. And if they leave disolusioned all the better, maybe they will start to think.
@@jackjax532 and another leftist is triggered, using insults because they simply can't come up with a rebuttal ❄❄❄❄
@@jackjax532 naww who's a tuff wittle guy? yes you are, yeshyuarr.
Brexit country portraying "dangerous nationalistic spanish far right voters". So cute.
Dale Vox! Lessssss gooooo. Una España libre y grande!
Say what you want about immigration, but praising Franco is just not right. Peninsular brother here.
What's wrong with Franco?
what's not wrong with franco
@@bravoalley228 do you know how many people died under his dictatorship?
@@disarmsox no. Can you enlighten me? I'm being serious.
@@bravoalley228 Can you make a Google search?
Shockingly illiterate subtitles, even for the Grauniad. "Morrocan"?! "encumbent"!?
Long live Francisco Franco!
me cago en tu madre
@@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335cállate ya
Panas basados, saludos a Españabola.
Nadie aquí entiende tu idioma. No parece español.
@@jmcr1963 Soy judío, hablo en ladino.
@@jmcr1963 si se le entiende
The Guardian loves this
Earth was safe under dinosaurs
True
Arriba Espana!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤✌
“Battle ground” comfortable tour around city with boomers talking
Vox is the only patriotic party in Spain. It's not perfect, but it is a ray of hope
Ahhh the intro anthem is the music to my ears! But I personally prefer the "Triple Himno" instead which reflects me more a monarchist, nationalist, and a traditionalist.
People look to the truck because of Vox.
Not about the flag
Esta señora preguntando a quien vas a votat
11:48 we use that number too here in pH heheheh
Yes.
The Guardian: please, record a new video about VOX, because this party won in the last elections 28 more places in ''The Congress of Deputies ''. At this time, the left, extreme left and separatist parties are very scared because VOX is outpacing the "Popular Party" (liberal) with the intention of voting ...
Nice!
Sadly they aren’t Falangist :c
Llora más, cateto.
Reconquista Espaňa!
Dude looks like Nacho Vidal..
7:28 What's with the Sammy?
The congito?
@ 7:29 LMAO! The black face chocolate candy dispenser
It's a classic spanish sweet, called "Conguitos" (Little Congos).
which should be binned.....
IS so tipic Candy in Spain ( little congo)
I want one!
Powerfullmoon why?
Franco was an incredible man. Pray for Europe that more sensible nationalists take power, especially my ancestor’s german homeland.
no to nationalism
Europe needs to remain Europe
1492
1776
3019
As the saying goes, "what goes around..."
1792
Rothshild
Problem
If he was far right, he would be playing "Cara al sol".
Cara al Sol is a very based song though. I love it 🙋🏼♂️
We need a second Reconquista!
There may be hope for Spain yet
The Guardian just keeps promoting Vox. The leaders of Vox were all in the PP before. There isn't anything new here. Just The Guardian trying to sell a story... What would be a story is the fact that the Vox vote was double the national average in areas where the Guardia Civil and the army have their barracks and military installations. That is worrying...
Indeed, indeed.
I hope vox wins.
Yeah, sadly this is happening in many places in Spain
VIVA FRANCO
Franco and his followers were Moors
We should electric fences
Viva españa! 🇪🇸
ARRIBA ESPAÑA 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
Reclaim your Honour, Mother Hispania!
We will. Again. It is in our genes.
Saludos a mis hermanos de españa desde los estados unidos. Que viva España
8:10 Hombre, algo te dará el lugar dónde vives. Si no trabajarías en Rabat.
Sure ask a group of old Spanish MEN what they thought of Franco.
the old man is 92 years old so hes not a fool, he has been around longer than most of us
How dare they ask (MEN!)
I mean, if you want to insist on this gender warfare kind of historical/civilizational dynamic, I don't think you're going to like it very much once men actually accept and decide to play accordingly. But hey, your choice of course; you're free, for now.
We facing the same issue in South Africa, they call us xenophobic anda afrophobic. You have no idea how we are overrun with neighbouring migrants. There is only so many people you can accommodate.
@Jericho Jezza yes it is 😁
@Matteo Viatte economic refugees
Yeah, this edgy hipster is clearly the spitting image of Franco's ideal Spanish man - fedora, wristbands and funky sunglasses: clearly the ideal man blasting the old anthem from his car.
I remember when Franco killed every last man wearing sunglasses and a fedora. Seriously man do you hear yourself?
Marcha Real is still the spanish anthem and it's from 1761, not everything spanish is an invention by Franco.
So cute the older people🥰
If the Morrocans all left there would be no work force for the hot-houses and the local economy would collapse.
This is not different in the USA, in the rural, poor areas is where you can find this kind of people. This are the spanish equivalent to the southerners and their confederate flag
It isn't the poor poeple, it's the ones ho have lived with inmigrants and know what's up.
They are not poor people !
@@suprimoklk8740 Everyone has lived with immigrants in Spain, unless you live in a cave.
@@pablo8286 Most people that can afford it move to areas where spaniards are like 100% of the neighborhood, we the ones that can't affortd buying a home in such places are condemned with ever growing crime rates, forces "multiculturalism" (everyone hates everyone that's what really happens) with low wages... To add up you have to see the goverment take the taxmoney you've paid and give it for free to some random dude from morocco, and I bet a leg I live in a city with more immigrant population that you.
VIVA FRANCISCO FRANCO!!!
Stupidity does not discriminate. They vote against themselves
When Stalin died, why didn't Russia transcend into a democracy?
because there was already democracy in the ussr
No, the local should not adopt to the ways of the immigrants, the immigrants need to adapt to the culture of the country they move to and demand nothing, other than simple respect. Don't push your ways or religion on the local culture as you do not have that right.
"spanish should be like spanish in america" bruhhhhh
That's not what he said. He said they should be like Americans who are patriots.
He said "I've been in America, and people there are real patriots, Spanish people should be like that too.'
I don't understand how anyone can misunderstand that. He's speaking of the American people being patriotic and that Spaniards should follow their example in Spain.
@@hiphipjorge5755 As a matter of fact Spanish people also say America in specific contexts to refer to the US. Must be because of Hollywood films. It all depends on the context.
In Spain they call US America.
@@lore9828 No, we say Estados Unidos or EE.UU., but it is true that we do refer to citizens of the US as "Americanos" as much as with the proper "Estadounidenses" demonym.
We also have the mixed language "useños" or "Ustherners".
10:17 gamer detected
Weren't Moroccans the bulk of Franco's first forces?
Yeah
Spain issa great Nation
I hope they stay in the far right side 🙏😊😊💚
viva espana
When they say immigrants, do they mean Americans? I was thinking about retiring there in 6 years, but if they don't like Americans, then I'll look elsewhere. My wife is from Peru. Do they like Peruvians?
¿Donde esta Juan José bonilla ahora? Pues fuera de Vox
My Abuelo fought Franco. He'd be disgusted if he was alive to see the rise of the right now
Falange was still leftist.
@@user-wx3mq4nz3f ???????????????
@@estebanromo344 3rd position. Against marxism and capitalism.
The Unasked Intellectual parts were but that was squashed once Franco merged all parties to control the carlist
@@sebdcord no, you wouldn't.
The irony of a country like Spain complaining about "foreigners" coming to their country🤣🤣😂
How do you think the people in the Americas and Africa felt about the Spanish empire? This is karma
we should invade your country again
"karma" is addressed back towards the person who did the wrongdoing
Those are dead now.
People still suffer in Africa today
Your comment does not any make sense
@@lahabitaciondelatrapado4621 No, in this case the comment regarding Karma has to do with the country and the government. First Spain should officially condemn Franco as a dictator, then they should condemn the past behavior of the Spainish "Empire"
@@joshuagraham967 the Americas were full of native tribes constantly fighting each other, and the prisoners of those wars were being sacrificed (ritually murdered) in the local temples (pyramids), and no one is condemning anything; you cannot right all the wrongs
There you go. 😊 I'm Spanish, this is such a mess, one don't know how to speak. Dialogue is becoming impossible, facts like this can't be mentioned...