I thought this was pretty interesting considering we’ve been talking about Franco and his lasting influence on Spaniards today. Anyway it is a rather small article about how two small bombs were detonated outside of Manuel Fraga Iribarne’s childhood home in Galicia. The bombs didn’t hurt anyone and they only damaged the outside of the house, which has been turned into a museum by the Popular Party (conservative, or a la derecha, if you will).
Galicia has its own separatist movement called Resistencia Galega (REGA) which has claimed responsibility for many attacks on dozens of political party offices and banks, having said that, no one has taken responsibility for the bombs.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne was a minister under Francisco Franco’s regime. Then when Franco died he became vice president and Interior Minister (the Spanish Equivalent to Head of Homeland Security) under Carlos Arias Navarro's government. It was during this time that he lost a lot of popularity due to the strict measures against protesting he took during Spain’s transition to democracy. Once famously saying, “La calle es mia” (The streets are mine), the streets didn’t belong to the people and their protesting, but rather to the state. Once Spain became democratic he formed the Popular Party.
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