{"id":141,"date":"2014-10-14T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2014\/10\/14\/why-we-say-fuck-spain\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:11:26","slug":"why-we-say-fuck-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2014\/10\/14\/why-we-say-fuck-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we say FUCK Spain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/thinkmexican.tumblr.com\/post\/63988437092\/maduro-outrage-spain-celebrarates-holocaust'>Why we say FUCK Spain!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>Maduro: Spain Celebrates the Holocaust of Our Ancestors For those unaware, October 12 is a national holiday in Spain. Once called \u201cD\u00eda de la Hispanidad,\u201d it\u2019s that country\u2019s national day and also its Day of the Armed Forces. They now call it \u201cFiesta Nacional,\u201d or \u201cNational Festival.\u201d For us and many others, the fact that Spain has chosen this day to celebrate its nationhood is extremely offensive and illustrates how the racism of colonialism is still deeply a part of this country\u2019s identity. Venezuela President Nicol\u00e1s Madur\u00f3 agrees. On Saturday, Maduro told an assembly of military personnel how he felt about Spain\u2019s Fiesta. \u201cIn Spain, [they celebrate October 12] as their national day\u2026I felt outraged and offended that elsewhere they celebrate the day that began the American Indian Holocaust,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cSpain should reconsider this, as should the rest of Europe, because they cannot be celebrating the day that began the massacre, or the holocaust, of 100 million men and women who were our grandfathers and our grandmothers,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why today is neither D\u00eda de la Hispanidad, nor is it D\u00eda de la Raza, it is a day of resistance for our Aboriginal Peoples. Resistance to conquest, resistance to colonialism, resistance to the Holocaust,\u201d Maduro added. Although many of his statements have at times provided easy fodder for critics, Maduro\u2019s words are poignant and exactly what needed to be said to Spain that day. A salute to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and to his predecessor, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, for officially making October 12\u00a0Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we say FUCK Spain! Maduro: Spain Celebrates the Holocaust of Our Ancestors For those unaware, October 12 is a national holiday in Spain. Once called \u201cD\u00eda de la Hispanidad,\u201d it\u2019s that country\u2019s national day and also its Day of the Armed Forces. They now call it \u201cFiesta Nacional,\u201d or \u201cNational Festival.\u201d For us and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}