2023-06-11 11:20:00
Since it came to the richest council in the community, in June 2003, it has become the focus of polemics and controversies. The local government refuses to remove it and it has almost become a pop icon
11 jun 2023 . Updated at 11:27 a.m.
Some are received at home by Isabel Preysler with chocolates and, others, a metallic effigy of the Che Guevara. Since June 2003, potterswelcomes its neighbors with an eight-meter statue that honors the communist revolutionary and that, as expected, has been at the center of controversy for fifteen years. At the center of the media controversy—the national media loves to walk down the avenue that also bears the name of this guerrilla fighter—and at the center of the political controversy, since the statue has been the parsley of the programs of those parties that They opted a few weeks ago to govern this council. What’s more, some groups have made this symbol their reason for existing. This is the case of Soberana Ciudadana, an anti-Castro party that defends the removal of this monument. On 28M they obtained the support of 78 voters.
Vecios alternative, The party that has ruled Oleiros since the mid-1980s emerged victorious again in the last municipal elections, winning more than 9,000 ballots. Angel Garca Seoane he revalidates the position, and although he warned that this would be his last legislature, the electoral hangover led him to conclude that this headline now acquired new nuances due to the advance of parties like Vox. In this municipality, the communist mayor enjoys undisputed support —statue of Che, ra Simn Bolvar, and avenue of Karl Marx through— by some neighbors who in the last autonomic elections opted for the Popular Party; in fact, then one in two ballots went to the right.
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Oleiros lives in an oxymoron that reaches its maximum exponent in the Nirvana park, where the bust of Che sits. Designed by the Cuban sculptor Juan Quintanilla, the piece is based on the famous photographHeroic Guerrillaby Alberto Korda. The local government disbursed more than 180,000 euros for a work that was carried out in a workshop in Arteixo and that, they never tire of repeating in the opposition, nobody needed or wanted. The story has not changed, because only a month ago the PSdeG of Oleiros He wondered why a character so far removed from our culture, with a controversial career crowns one of the noblest areas of the council, while characters linked to Galician culture pass sideways. militants of Vox in Potters They also went through the roundabout last May with a banner that carried a clear and concise message: Che Guevara, a cold killing machine.
Cleaning services have had to approach this roundabout at least three times since 2003 to remove graffiti. From the colors red and yellow, to insults such as murderer; Che Guevara has faced all this since he looked at BastiagueiroThe statue does not know what it is to rest in peace and, although few reach this degree of virulence, according to a survey carried out by La Voz, this roundabout does not have too many fans. The results concluded that 64% of voters preferred that the bust of the Argentine guerrilla be removed in 2021. More than 15,000 readers participated.
This “Rotonda del Che” costume is one of the best we have seen in this introido. #ACoruña Do not you think? https://t.co/tSfbDFnBNq
— Voices from A Coruña (@vocescoruna) February 22, 2023
Whether or not it manages to resist another fifteen years, what no one can deny the statue of Che is that over time it has become almost a pop icon that represents the paradox of the Oleiros council. To show what happened last carnival, when a disfraz deroundo do Che He competed with the Zara clerks and an Ins Rey shakirizada.
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