THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY of dictator Francisco Franco's death was largely a non-event here; this country has changed too much, fortunately. Of course, there were a bunch of lowlifes who demonstrated, with the Roman salute and all. Saying that there were "hundreds of them", as the AP reports, is being very kind. And the anti-fascist march was bigger. No one gave a damn about them. As it should be.

UPDATE. More on the anti-fascist demonstration here; there were more than 2,000 people marching in homage to the last men executed by the Franco regime a short time before his own death: they were 2 from ETA and 3 from the leftist radical group FRAP. No matter what one thinks about the death penalty, the guys were hardly freedom fighters. There were many people who really fighted for freedom; arguably, very few compared to what people claim now. Just as in France apparently no one was a Nazi collaborator, the same amnesiac process has taken place here: even people who were working for the regime now present themselves as brave anti-Franco revolutionaries, or something.

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