Unfortunately, the tragedy caused by DANA in Valencia has created fertile ground for the propagation of all kinds of lies and hoaxes on social networks, the sole purpose of which is to further intoxicate and irritate public opinion. In most cases, those responsible are far-right media and political elements, the same young people from Revuelta, Desokupa, España 2000, among others, who went to install it in Paiporta.
Among the host of lies and hoaxes, the one that always delights the right is the resurrection of Francisco Franco. They like to remember the marshes that the dictator inaugurated to affirm that we have water thanks to his infinite goodness. And that, faced with the “persistent drought”, Franco’s hydraulic policy solved our problems. They forget that this policy was defended at the beginning of the 20th century by regenerators like the geographer Ricardo Macías Picavea, or that the Badajoz plan was a copy of that designed by the Minister of Public Works, the socialist Indalecio Prieto, during the Second World War. Republic.
