On October 14, 1957, nearly 400 liters of water per square meter fell on the city of Valencia. Already the Merchant Athenaeum of the capital had predicted that the so-called floods could occur more or less every 27 years. This dire forecast was delayed by four years because the previous known disaster dated back to 1949, twenty-two years earlier. Today, the one from which the Valencian province is suffering (the city fortunately suffered less damage) has suddenly appeared, 67 years later, but all these references have the interesting fact of the month in which they were presented: always in October .
The oldest people in Valencia still remember the flood of 1957. It caused no less than 300 deaths (I fear the total number can never be estimated) and had an enormous and prodigious consequence: the remodeling of the capital , basically the diversion of the Turia River which started in 1965 and ended, I think, around 1973.
It was a real national upheaval that even caused political problems, all that could be tolerated in Franco’s Spain, which was already gradually dying out. The mayor of Valencia, Thomas Trénorarchetypal surname in the region, became angry with the Central Administration, perhaps due to the lack of means it had put in place to combat the effects of the flood and even had public reproaches against none other than the Generalissimo who still ruled the country. country: Francisco Franco.
The Ministry of the Interior – that is what the Ministry of the Interior was called at the time – was held by another general: Don Camilo Alonso Vega, personal friend of the head of state and man of unfailing rigor in his methods. So much so that people, discreetly of course, nicknamed him Don Camulo. Well, the general, hero of many wars of course, did not accept the management disagreement that Mayor Trenor proposed to him and sent him to fry asparagus, with the consent, of course, of Franco. He was the only political victim of this tragedy
After this flood, twenty-five years later, Dam of Alla tragedy which quickly had its own name: The swamp. Eight deaths were recorded at this time also in October 1982, a moment which preceded a real political revolution in Spain: the victory of the PSOE on the 28th of that month. Calvo Sotelo, still president of the government, suffered all the blows at the time: the deserved and the undeserved; all. Someone even wrote this Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo He ends his mandate with a tragedy typical of his false ashen quality.
It was said: “All is the worst thing that can happen to a civil engineer.” Then, there was no mercy with the last president of the Democratic Center Union. Since this distant date, the Levantine region has suffered, for better or for worse, the various attacks that nature addresses to it. Things were done well and the risk of the Turia overflowing again has disappeared. The work – it must be repeated to give everyone their due – was carried out during the dictator’s time. Things as they are.
And there you have it, at the end of 2024, not happy for Spain, the drama is back in Valencia. From the outset, one thing should be noted: all forecasts, including those of the State Meteorological Agency, predicted Dana, but none of those that can be cited anticipated the dimensions of this catastrophe, especially human. It is possible that for a few days we will not know exactly how many people this mortal Dana has taken.
The deaths that we already know are enough to qualify this attack which devastated dozens of Valencian villages as a historic catastrophe. It is true that the resources available today are enormously greater than those of 1957 of the last century, but there is a similarity in the analysis of this incident that few those responsible for its reduction even dare to mention: it was, as This was shown by the attitude of certain people who, without suffering the consequences of their actions, irresponsibly tried to save their property by braving misfortune, were then very negative. Some security officers agree on this fact.
And how did the politicians behave? Well, there was everything, starting with a president of the government, during an absolutely useless trip to India, who should have cut short his presence in this emerging country from the moment the first details of the great accident were known .
Then he did the usual thing: appearing sad on television in this type of public appearances, like Covid, in which he presents himself as the great savior not only of Spain, but of the whole world. Parliament reacted late and thus allowed, the deceased being already on the table, the PP and the Government to engage in a fight which, frankly, was not for the day. Finally, Feijóo realized that the control session was not necessary and used his spokesperson Tellado to request the suspension of the parliamentary act.
However, Yolanda Díaz, vice-president of the government, boss and accomplice of the depraved Errejón, attributed the initiative to the PSOE in a gesture probably intended to gather support for its continuity within the government. Painful. In the end, control was suspended, but not the vote in favor of the assault on Radiotelevisión Española.
This is what these individuals are like. The same or worse than Rufián, who took advantage of a few canutazos in the corridors of Congress, to pour on the autonomous governments, naturally those of the Popular Party, a whole series of vituperations and lies, one of them of a miserable character: to have bargained and cut off all the weapons to fight against this type of tragedy. A shameful lie but, in the end, what can you expect from a guy like that!
The tragedy has ruined everything in the Valencia region. However, he postponed the political struggle of these days, based on the multi-corruption of the government, and also obscured the scandal of the pervert, the evil doll, Errejón. Sánchez, as at the time of this damn virus, took the train of emotion and took advantage of it politically. In his role. Disgust.
