«Tomorrow night it’s my turn ‘The Anthill‘ live. And well. The truth is that these are not the best days to talk in public. Or maybe they are. Anyway, let’s see how things turn out. “Whatever can be done will be done,” Arturo wrote on social networks. Pérez-Reverte, the celebrity who sat down this Monday, November 4, with Pablo Motos. A guest whose statements always raise blisters; in fact, hours before his return to the program Antenna 3 a fragment of it went viral your previous interview, where he stated that “we are raising young generations, now, at this moment, who are not prepared for when the Titanic iceberg comes.”
The journalist and writer resorted to the purple ants format under the pretext of presenting sHis new novel, ‘The Island of the Sleeping Woman’. However, as expected, the conversation between Pérez-Reverte and Motos flowed through many other directions of which the guest spoke without mincing words. The first and most important, the DANA tragedy in Valencito.
«I am living it like everyone else. With stupor, indignation, desolation, sadness,” he said when asked by the presenter. Despite the bleakness of the situation, for the writer it is also a reason for admiration, “because there is something that always happens in Spain with tragedies and catastrophes.” «It happened with the pandemic and with the Islamist attacks in Madrid. The Spanish react very well to crises, with generosity and solidarity. That is a consolation within the tragedy and drama, the positive part,” he continued explaining.
In the other, however, he considers that “we have found that they are playing chess with human lives.” «There has been criminal incompetence on the part of the Valencian Generalitat, and also on the part of the Spanish Government. Between these two criminal incompetences, seeing how people are able to react and overcome, makes one feel good,” Pérez-Reverte forcefully denounced in his speech at ‘The Anthill’.
“When things go wrong, human nature brings out the best and the worst,” the host of the program intervened, alluding to the robberies and looting in businesses in the affected areas. That comment to the guest led him directly to thinking about the army. “In Spain there are 120,000 soldiers who are arriving now and in dribs and drabs. If those people had been there when it all started, apart from removing mud and removing debris, they could have helped ensure that there was no security and that looting did not occur.” He, as a war correspondent, has not seen that in other countries. «In other countries the army intervenes immediately to guarantee a public security situation. “That delay also makes me very sad.”
Pérez-Reverte’s controversial statements about youth
At that moment, Motos alluded to the writer’s words about the young people who have been so talked about in recent days. «I was talking about something else, it is taken out of context. “I was referring to technology, cell phones… That kind of thing,” said Pérez-Reverte, happy that the presenter had brought up the topic because he had something left to add to his previous words. «We have scammed young people. We have sold them a Disneyland, a world in which sharks are good, wolves are kind, etc. Then they have encountered reality, which is unemployment, not finding a house… It is a scam. We have not prepared them for the raw and harsh reality when it hits,” he asserted.
However, seeing kids traveling kilometers and kilometers to help in ravaged towns, in his opinion, has shown one thing: “that they have generosity, courage, courage within them that are diluted and lost over time.” «But no one has taught them, no one has prepared them for this. And yet, they have found moral strength and courage.
He also asked Pablo Motos to comment on what happened on Sunday in Paiporta with the visit of the Kings, of Pedro Sanchezy of Carlos Mazón. “Don’t put me in gardens, you bastard,” he snapped sarcastically. But it was only lip service, because the academic came into the picture. “Sánchez was Sánchez,” he summarized in a few words. Regarding Queen Letizia, he highlighted that “she has learned a lot these years, she was very good.” Of the “tall blond”, that is, the King, the king, mentioned that “he was superior.” «For that temper. That serenity, that manner, that courage, because he played it. That way of showing your face, of being honorable and faithful to the role you play. It wasn’t him, it was the Spanish State, which is very important. “He was upright, honest and the best he could given the circumstances,” he argued. While the president of the Generalitat indicated that he remained “hidden behind.”
The result, “a remarkable king in my opinion, temperate, brave and doing his job, for which he earns a salary, and miserable politicians paying the consequences.”
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