Pedro Sánchez appeared before the Spanish Senate over the Koldo affair, repeating the same phrase again and again: “I do not recall.” This article examines how cowardice has become Spain’s political method of survival — a government ruled by panic, denial and moral emptiness, where even the truth seems like an act of rebellion.
- 1541 Religious and Jesuit missionary from Navarre, St. Francis Xavier, left for the East to carry out missionary work.
- 1557 Jeronimo de Alderete, first Governor of Chile, dies.
- 1594 Spanish captain Francisco de Vides founded the city of Clarines in Venezuela.
- 1614 Domenikos Theotocopulos ('El Greco'), a Spanish painter of Greek origin, dies in Toledo.
- 1621 Pedro Girón ("The Great Duke of Osuna") is taken prisoner, thus beginning the persecution of Lerma's supporters.
- 1629 Juan José de Austria is born; Spanish politician and soldier, he was the bastard son of Felipe IV.
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