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For the British traveler Richard Ford, Spain in the 19th century was a country “oscillating between civilization and barbarism” and in his Time.news Manual for travelers through the Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia (1845) did not hesitate to assign Murcia to the second category: “They even say about themselves and their province that both the land and the climate are good, but that much of what is between them is bad.” The sentence of Pedro Antonio Sánchez, eighth president of Murcia (2015-2017), to three years in prison for prevarication and falsehood, would reaffirm his diagnosis. And a cursory glance at the vicissitudes of the presidency of the community would confirm it without a doubt.