{"id":162,"date":"2006-07-11T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joaquimdiario.pisa-bcn.net\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-07-11T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:20:44","slug":"el-new-york-times-responsabiliza-al-pp-del-golpismo-militar-en-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joaquimdiario.es\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"El New York Times responsabiliza al PP del golpismo militar en Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

TROGLODITAS DEL EJÉRCITO EN ESPAÑA<\/span>The New York Times <\/span><\/p>\n

Editorial 24-1-2006 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Un principio básico de la democracia es que el ejército no reta públicamente la legitimidad del gobierno electo ni habla de que sus tropas marchen a la capital para dar la vuelta a las decisiones del Parlamento. Pero eso es lo que ha ocurrido dos veces este mes en España, cuya historia del siglo XX nos obliga a tomar esas amenazas en serio, incluso aunque las posibilidades de que las palabras de los insubordinados lleven a acciones de insubordinación parecen poco probables.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> La respuesta del gobierno de centro-izquierda del Presidente, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, ha sido adecuadamente firme, incluyendo el cese y el arresto de uno de los que ha perpetrado esas acciones, un veterano general del ejército. Lamentablemente, el partido de centro-derecha, el Partido Popular, el principal grupo de la oposición parece más interesado en fabricar excusas para esos oficiales que en defender el orden democrático en el cual tiene un papel vital.<\/span> <\/p>\n

El rápido y suave cambio hacia la democracia moderna tras la muerte de Francisco Franco en 1975 hace fácil olvidar los horrores de la guerra civil y la brutal dictadura que las precedieron. Esas pesadillas comenzaron cuando los oficiales del ala derecha del ejército se rebelaron contra un gobierno de izquierdas al que consideraban ilegítimo y demasiado considerado hacia las regiones separatistas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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La sociedad española, los políticos españoles y –en su mayor parte— los militares españoles han recorrido un largo camino desde aquella era, moderando sus puntos de vista y profundizando su compromiso con el toma y daca de la democracia. Pero el Partido Popular está teniendo difícil superar su derrota electoral hace dos años, días después de los atentados terroristas de los trenes de Madrid. Nunca ha aceptado realmente la legitimidad democrática de aquella votacióin. Ha llegado el momento de que el Partido Popular se mire hacia adelante. La democracia española realmente necesita y merece un vigoroso apoyo bipartidista.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> (versión inglesa)<\/strong><\/span>Army Troglodytes in Spain<\/span> <\/p>\n

It is a basic principle of democracy that army officers do not publicly challenge the legitimacy of elected governments or talk about marching their troops into the capital to overturn decisions of Parliament. Yet that is just what has happened twice this month in Spain, a country whose 20th-century history compels it to take such threats seriously, even when the chances of insubordinate words' leading to insubordinate actions seems quite unlikely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The response of the center-left government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been appropriately firm, including the dismissal and arrest of one of the culprits, a senior army general. Regrettably, the center-right Popular Party, the main opposition group, seems more interested in making excuses for the officers than in defending the democratic order in which it has a vital stake.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spain's swift and smooth passage to modern democracy after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 makes it easy to forget the horrors of the civil war and the brutal dictatorship that preceded it. Those nightmares began when right-wing army officers rebelled against an elected left-wing government they considered to be illegitimate and too deferential to regional separatists.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Spanish society, Spanish politicians and, for the most part, Spanish military officers have come a long way from that era, moderating their views and deepening their commitment to democratic give-and-take. But the Popular Party has had a hard time getting over its electoral defeat nearly two years ago, days after the terrorist bombings of commuter trains in Madrid. It has never really accepted the democratic legitimacy of that vote. It is time for the Popular Party to move ahead. Spanish democracy needs and deserves vigorous bipartisan support.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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