Memoirs. Cartoon of 03/11/2025 in CTXT
The book of the vivid man's memoirs, in which he appears on the cover with a photo from 150 years ago, under the title "Juan Carlos I. Reconciliation" has gone on sale in Spain almost a month after its publication in France. Reconciliation" has gone on sale in Spain almost a month after its publication in France.
There is no need to read it, let alone buy it, because the media in several countries have already given a good account of the more sausagey parts of the auto-hagiography. But there is nothing new in it, apart from the gossip that he considers himself"the only Spaniard who does not receive a pension after almost 40 years of service".
Among the many shady dealings, there is the minutiae that he received 100 million dollars from the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia shortly after he was given a facelift and the Golden Fleece (the Golden Fleece is the Royal Household's signature gift, they must have thousands in the gift cupboard).
On the subject of carving out 100 kilos under the table in exchange for only they know what, Juanca said that it was a "gift" (which he endorsed to Corina, his "lover" at the time) and that he did not know "how to refuse it", like so many other"little gifts" that he amassed. He also pointed out that this money was to ensure his retirement and so on, like someone who takes out a pension plan or saves a few euros in a piggy bank.
This parasite is so somatised that Spain was his cortijo, that he speaks so naturally and brazenly about his shenanigans that it is frightening.
The elephant slaughterer, as a good author, also did his tour of interviews to promote his fictional novel. In one of them on France 3, he said something, which is nothing more than an anecdote that is supposed to make him look "good", or "nice", and ends up looking like an ass. or sympathetic and ends up looking like an ass.
According to Juanca, the murderer and dictator Ausgusto Pinochet, who made an appearance in Spain after the death of his murderous counterpart and dictator Francisco Franco, told him when they were travelling by car: "Your Highness, you have to do like Franco, you must do exactly the same". According to the emeritus:"I told him: 'Yes, yes, of course', but then I did what the Spaniards really wanted". In short, he didn't have the balls to stand up to Pinochet and tell him to go to hell, instead he acted as the assassin's cicerone.
There is no news about Juanca's affection for Franco, despite the fact that some people now believe they have discovered the powder keg. He had already confessed this several times.
Juan Carlos never explicitly disassociated himself from the Francoist roots of his inheritance, for one thing because he could not and would not. That's how historical "memory" is for some, it has inexplicable gaps when it comes to eating the dictator's ass.
But not only that. When Franco was not yet permanently dead, the young Juan Carlos was full of compliments for him.
Juanca in an interview in 1970 for Swiss television (the folksy guy went there a lot, for whatever reason). From 1973 onwards he was already involved in the Saudi Arabian oil business.
And of course, someone might say that that was the way things were in those days, anyone would take a gamble and so on. So, for the good of Spain, he had to swear allegiance to Francoism and loyalty to the principles of the National Movement.
Well, a few decades after eating the dictator's ass, Juanca stood firm with Franco's mandate and emotionally recalled the last lick* he gave him on his deathbed, just a day before kicking the bucket.
"The day before he died, Franco took my hand and said to me: "Your Highness, all I ask of you is that you preserve the unity of Spain".
*Images from the 2015 documentary "I, Juan Carlos I, King of Spain" by Miguel Courtois.
But all this is more than outdated, which is why the CIS has not asked the plebs about the monarchy for six years now, as a result of the inheritance of the good habits of not making people uncomfortable.
Reconciliation does not live up to its title because for reconciliation to exist, all parties have to participate. It is not something that can be declared and sentenced unilaterally. It is not even an invitation to reconciliation. It is yet another whim of a profiteer who took over from Francoism and became accustomed to that silenced and trampled Spain of which he believed himself to be the heir and new owner.
