Decolonization and Independence

Canary Islands, 7th March, 2010

Mr. Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Secretary-General, please find attached a new video about the 6^th march demonstration for Canary Islands

 Decolonization and Independence

In 1334 Pope Clemente VI granted The Canary Islands to the Castilian Kinf Luis de España y Cerda. The crown of Castile showed growing interest en these islands for atlantic bases to support expeditions for native American genocide, and them it started the invasion of the bigger islands.

 The Castilian invasion and occupation was very hard, because resistance to Spanish colonialism was particulary strong by the Guanches, a tall, burly, brave, warlike and intelligent people that populated the Canary Islands, were very well organized, and don’t finish until 1496 ( 162 years later).

 The Christianization, hispanization and colonization soon caused the original language and culture to destroy. Life was not easy due to severe droughts, and attacks from spanish, portuguese, french, english, dutch, and other pirates.

 After the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) the underdevelopment of the islands was notable.

 The geostrategic importance of the Canary Islands has been reevaluated since 1975 in light of tripartite agreement on Sahara, the hispano-maroccan treaties, and the entry of Spain into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), through a Referendum celebrated in march 1986 (24^th anniversary this year 2010) in wich the Canary Islands residents voted against.

 Among the inhabitants of the islands, these issues, wich were debated even in the Organization for African Union, have stimulated nationalistic sentiment against Spanish colonialism and support for an anticolonialism approach.

 In 1982 the Canary Islands obtained a false autonomous status within Spain, to deceive the Organization of the United Nations (ONU), and maintain the Spanish military and missionery presence in the region. It’s Spain who offer the most complicated instructive case study in past atrophy and future ambitious. Spanish colonialism control the Canary Islands through monopoly of the education system, economy, press, radio, and TV.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that 2010 would be an important year for the Special Committee on Decolonization because it marked both the end of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism and the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. “What we need now are creative solutions for the remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories”, said Ban Ki Moon. “Spain’s creative Solutions” in the video. More information in the next link.

http://elguanche.net/Secciones/mani6mzo10portada.htm

Thank you very much for your attention and interest.