The Valencian vice president, Vicente Barrera, of Vox, made a “call to what Western Europe is” on Tuesday night because “the problem is global” and not only affects the Spanish homeland, at the closing of the presentation in Valencia of the Institute of Culture of the Disenso Foundation, linked to extreme right-wing formation. Before an audience made up of his coreligionists, led by Llanos Massó, president of the Valencian Cortes – “president”, Barrera called her, as she prefers -, the also Minister of Culture of the Valencian Generalitat, governed by the PP and Vox, explained their fears: “The problem is not limited to our homeland. We are fighting to recover our values, our history, our greatness, so that we can feel proud of being Spanish without being called fascists or fascists. The problem is global and European. We live in a Europe that is self-suicide. We are witnessing the suicide of Western Europe and that is extremely dangerous, where we do not have reciprocity, where cultures foreign to ours can come, contrary to all the principles and values that we have defended, to our Judeo-Christian philosophy and our democracy, which not only want to impose but they are helped by our institutions to implement those cultures.”
In his speech, part of which was not read, the former businessman and bullfighter did not use the word immigration, even though he was referring to it. After attacking the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in line with his party, he noted: “We have seen thousands of farmers leave throughout Europe and people wonder why it is happening, why imports have been rewarded. from Morocco, from South Africa, from third countries, how is it possible that they invade us. Because someone has approved it. Who has approved it? The left, the greens and the traditional right. Like that, it has also happened in the cultural sector, in the sector of principles, of values, in the defense of what our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents built.”
Barrera, however, was very optimistic regarding the future of the next European elections on June 9 in Spain due to the examples that countries such as Argentina, Hungary, Poland or Italy are giving, with governments close to Vox.
![Víctor Lenore, Iván Vélez, Zoé Valdés and Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna, in the colloquium in an image of the organization of the event.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/6YBRo5U9-3-DxPTFnmck11ii6eU=/414x0/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/MYMG3XOVRNCG7LX2EVLMZQT4SU.jpg)
Lawyer Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna, head of studies at the Disenso Foundation, also expressed his hope for the future, who served as master of ceremonies for the event of an entity whose vocation is to “tell the history of Spain as it is, without ideological aspirations.” ” and as a goal, the cultural rearmament of the right to combat the dictates of “the commissioners of dominant correction,” according to its director, the philosopher Jorge Martín Frías. Three members of the foundation's advisory board participated in the colloquium, held in a central hotel in Valencia: the Spanish-Cuban writer Zoé Valdés, the journalist and music critic Víctor Lenore and the architect and author of several history books (Reconquest) Iván Vélez.
Recover was one of the most used words during the meeting. Recover history, values, the Spanish language, popular culture. Or recover, as Ruiz de la Serna proposed – who admitted feeling “nostalgia for the past”, without mentioning the Franco dictatorship by name – “the images from photographic archives, of what that Spain was like, of what a life was like that for a long time time has been presented to us as undesirable, of lesser value, and yet it rescued the community, the neighborhood, a certain solidarity that was born from coexistence and not from political rhetoric.”
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Everyone agreed on the importance of the visual and revisionism. Valdés especially criticized the critical comment that emeritus professor of History Carlos Martínez Shaw published in EL PAÍS about the film. Spanish America. Song of life and hope, directed by José Luis López-Linares and sponsored by the Community of Madrid, which the writer praised. Vélez claimed the poems Mother Spain and The reconquest of Miguel Hernández, the left-wing and republican writer from Orihuela, imprisoned and condemned by the Franco regime. Lenore influenced her criticism of how the PSOE praised the Madrid movement and ignored the so-called Ruta del bacalao, the Valencian electronic music scene of the 1980s.
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