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"Mr President, as can be seen from the terrorist arrests under Mr Rodríguez Zapatero’s Government, it goes without saying that the accusations that have been made today against the Spanish Government are clearly inconsistent.
However, moving on to my point, the centenary is being commemorated of the poet Miguel Hernández, an irreplaceable loss in the Spanish civil war and an extraordinary voice which springs purely from the heart of the people. A herder of ‘goats and sorrows’, he was a contemporary of Neruda and Aleixandre, winners of the Nobel Prize.
In this forum, which should be one of liberty, tolerance, peace and culture, I read: ‘I am an open window that listens, / through which to see the gloom of life. / But there is a ray of sun in the fight / that always leaves the shadow vanquished’.
In these gloomy times, let us continue in the hope of the poet’s ray of light, which will vanquish the darkness, the darkness of that time and for always. Paraphrasing Miguel Hernández, ‘We have to speak about many things’, or from the poetry of Vallejo, quoted in Stockholm this past week by Vargas Llosa, ‘Brothers, there is much to do’, in this Europe …"@en1
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