Madrigal wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 2:20 am
I suppose letting Spain starve wouldn't have had a huge amount of backing in Argentina, for obvious reasons of blood ties to the country. There had just been a huge wave of immigration from Spain - and lots of them were from Galicia, which was and probably still is pretty fascist in comparison to the rest of Spain. In Bs As you wouldn't have the Galician community so much as open a measly playground without a fucking priest at the scene to bless the event, and I think that also speaks to their natural fascism.
That's true, although on a personal level Peron was an admirer of Franco of how a military man could take control of a country and protect it from foreign interests - quietly ignoring the extensive Italian and German support that Franco got in order to achieve power in the first place - although he did manage to outfox them by staying out of WW2. It should be remembered that at this stage the Falangists were at the height of their power in Spain with corporatist and autarkic economic ideas which on an economic level held a lot of resonance with Peron - he was also influenced by Mussolini's economic model too (before Mussolini's Fascist ideology got irretrievably intertwined with and changed by Nazism around 1938 due to the Abyssianian war and the Anschluss of Austria among other thing). This was all before Franco quitely eliminated them from power and replaced them with capitalistic Opus Dei technocrats and various housing developer spivs who built concrete jungles in tourist resorts and big cities from the 60s onwards who turned Spain into what was basically the wild west boom economy of Western Europe for a time. Largely due to his new found friendship with the US, although he remained antagonistic with the UK (over Gibraltar) and France - supporting the OAS far-right paramilitary movement who felt betrayed by De Gaulle. De Gaulle got his revenge by giving ETA a safe harbour for Basque operatives to train in to gun down Guardia Civil officers. Although what I have read of Carlos Menem's policies suggests that this kind of economically liberal volte-face wasn't exactly entirely alien to Peronism either.
I was surprised to find the empanada galega being sold in Argentina, which is basically what an empanda a secas is in Spain.
Going back to the OP, I was also unaware there was a Holocaust denial law in
Spain. Aparently this was done by the PP in 2013, which is extremely ironic given the
Pacto de Olvido that the Socialist party agreed to in order to secure a transition to democracy (and power for them) that has had a long effect on Spain and is actually one of the reasons promoted by Catalan nationalists as to why Spain is still a fascist country (that and given the PP was founded by said Opus Dei technocrats) - and which is still highly controversial to this day and basically amounted to official denial of historical events as state policy for decades. It has only started to break down now because the far-right under Vox have (in response to the Catalan issue) become publically prominent for the first time since the end of the regime and it has led to a semi-official cancellation of the old pact, such as the removal of Franco from the Valle de los Caidos, which I would say ties in to what you are saying about these issues being closely connected to the political currents of the day and how threatened people feel by rising forces that were assumed buried by history. Although the sudden revival of information, the exhumation of mass graves from the Francoist past and the litigation of certain Guardia civil like Billy El Niño has led to a counter-wave of right-wing hostility to these policies under a sort of cultural victimhood status that ties to what they see as the disintegration of Spanish culture under fear of a law like that being proposed in Argentina were to be introduced
here. It is also ironic given how closely the PP used to be associated to Franco's regime whose belief in a Jewish-Communist-Mason conspiracy meant that the regime was closely tied to Arab states against Israel for many years - Spain only recognised Israel in the 80s under a socialist government - but of course the discourse and geopolitical alignment of recent years undoubtedly made it politically expedient for them to do so.
It makes me somewhat suspicious of similar laws/executive orders in other European countries - and those surrounding the status of the Armenian genocide that you saw in the US, France and Russia over the last few years - that seem to be more political signalling of foreign relations with Israel and Turkey that laws or regulations intended to be used seriously.