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In this paper, I explore the relationship between extreme <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andalusian nationalism and Islam</strong>. In particular, I evaluate the way separatists have interpreted the history of Muslim intervention in the Iberian Peninsula to support their view that Andalusia and Spain are distinct entities. Although these historical interpretations effectively combat some outdated notions about Al-Andalus, their clear political motivations make them unreliable guides to the complex history of the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ali Kettani, founder of the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yama&rsquo;a Isl&aacute;mica de Al-Andalus</strong> (Islamic Society of Andalusia), emphasized the link between Islam and Andalusian nationalism when he stated in a 1996 interview that &ldquo;[y]o veo el nacionalismo andaluz como una experiencia cultural hist&oacute;rica com&uacute;n: primero, como experiencia del Islam&rdquo; (cited in Escudero).</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Historically, this relationship traces its origins to Spain&rsquo;s 1978 constitution. Written after Francisco Franco&rsquo;s death in 1975, this document abolished Catholicism as Spain&rsquo;s state religion, granted Spaniards considerable religious freedom, and ceded new rights to regional governments previously hostile to Franco&rsquo;s uncompromising central state (Williams 248). In Andalusia, approval of the new constitution inevitably led to the formation of special interest groups devoted on the one hand to protecting the rights of native Muslims and Islamic immigrants and on the other to winning increased regional autonomy or even complete independence. Not surprisingly, the interests of these organizations often coincided. In particular, Andalusian nationalists often turned to Islam&rsquo;s historical presence in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula to elaborate theories about a unique Andalusian identity.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bernab&eacute; L&oacute;pez Garc&iacute;a and Ana I. Planet note in their article &ldquo;Islam in Spain&rdquo; that these theorists &ldquo;became influenced by Islam and the Islamic dimension of the whole concept of Al-Andalus&rdquo; (161). Consequently, it was easy for them to convert to Islam as part of their program to reclaim what they saw as their true cultural heritage. L&oacute;pez Garc&iacute;a and Planet confirm that for as many as five thousand non-Muslim nationalists, &ldquo;the transition from a specific Andalusian identity to an Islamic faith and identity was achieved without much difficulty&rdquo; (161). The conversion of Andalusian separatists to Islam meant that by the end of the 1980s, the most radical nationalist organizations doubled as special interest groups for Muslims. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is an excellent example of a political association with both separatist and pro-Islamic tendencies in contemporary Andalusia. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">According to its home web page, this group is an &ldquo;organizaci&oacute;n pol&iacute;tica que aspira, desde el acatamiento de la legislaci&oacute;n vigente y la negaci&oacute;n de la violencia como m&eacute;todo pol&iacute;tico, [a] la reconstrucci&oacute;n nacional de Andaluc&iacute;a, a su integridad territorial y [a] la independencia, negando por tanto, la supuesta nacionalidad espa&ntilde;ola, a la que estamos obligados a pertenecer.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">3</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>It becomes apparent only after further investigation of the web site&rsquo;s links that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> also has close ties to Andalusian Muslim associations. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For instance, the page entitled <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&ldquo;&iquest;Qui&eacute;nes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>somos?&rdquo; ( &ldquo;Who Are We?&rdquo; )</strong> explains that the organization shared a central office with one of its founding members, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yama&rsquo;a Isl&aacute;mica de Al-Andalus</strong>, until 1990. Although the two groups have since separated and </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> now claims that it is not an Islamic party, it does admit that &ldquo;hist&oacute;ricamente, fuimos y somos mayor&iacute;a los militantes que hemos asumido el Islam como proyecto y creencia personal.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> This disclosure refers directly to the important role played by Muslim converts in the organization. The fact that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> shares a web site with </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Foro Aben Humeya</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, a cultural group dedicated to the reinterpretation of Andalusia&rsquo;s Islamic past, is also indicative of its strong affiliation with Andalusia&rsquo;s Muslim population.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Separatist organizations like </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> contend that Islam&rsquo;s prolonged presence in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula distinguishes Andalusia from the rest of Spain and justifies the foundation of a sovereign Andalusian state. In order to develop their historical arguments, these groups have repeatedly turned to the works of the nationalist politician </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante P&eacute;rez de Vargas</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (1885-1936). Named the &ldquo;<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father of the Andalusian Fatherland</strong>&rdquo; in the preamble to Andalusia&rsquo;s 1983 autonomy statue, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> lobbied for </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Andalusian independence</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936), a period when Spain&rsquo;s central administration granted extensive rights to regional governments. In an online article entitled &ldquo;El resurgir de Al-Andalus: </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&mdash;S&iacute;ntesis del ideal andaluz&rdquo; ( &ldquo;The Renaissance of Al-Andalus: </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&mdash;Synthesis of the Andalusian Ideal&rdquo; ), Manuel Ruiz Romero explains that a 1924 visit to Morocco convinced </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> that the best way for Andalusia to achieve home rule would be to emphasize its Islamic past. Thus, the politician wrote several interpretations of Andalusian history replete with &ldquo;reflexiones y versos en lengua &aacute;rabe, as&iacute; como de etimolog&iacute;a musulmana.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> the following paragraphs, I use Ruiz Romero&rsquo;s brief review of </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> historical thought, along with <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ali Manzano&rsquo;s</strong> more detailed article &ldquo;Fundamentos de Andaluc&iacute;a en la obra de </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&rdquo; (&ldquo;Foundations of Andalusia in the Writings of </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&rdquo; ), to analyze the way </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> employed historical interpretation to legitimate his claim <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for Andalusian independence.</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ruiz Romero writes in his introduction to </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> historical works that &ldquo;[e]l ideal pol&iacute;tico de Blas Infante&hellip;supone la recuperaci&oacute;n de la memoria histor&iacute;ca de Al-Andalus, el estudio de las implicaciones actuales que la impronta de la cultura musulmana nos leg&oacute;, y el rechazo a toda teor&iacute;a centralista, basada en una hegemon&iacute;a ideol&oacute;gica de lo cristiano que impone, menosprecia y rechaza. En una palabra: el falseamiento de la historia y la cultura de un pueblo para su mejor sometimiento.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">6</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> This passage suggests that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> distinguished between conflicting interpretations of Andalusian history. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the one hand, the centralist Catholic version rejects Andalusia&rsquo;s distinct historical identity and incorporates the region&rsquo;s history into the larger story of the development of a united Christian Spain. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, the regionalist version reconstructs Andalusia&rsquo;s unique cultural heritage and emphasizes its historical separation from the northern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Evidently, these interpretations offer widely varying accounts of the Islamic intervention in Al-Andalus.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">According to <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manzano</strong>, the centralist view of Spanish history identified by </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> &ldquo;tiene como objetivo&hellip;fortalecer la idea de la unidad de Espa&ntilde;a, fundamentada en un supuesto estado visigodo&hellip;en cuyo seno ya exist&iacute;a esa unidad pol&iacute;tico-religiosa que la reconquista vino a reponer.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">7</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This interpretation maintains that the Visigoths established a unified Catholic state in the Iberian Peninsula prior to the Muslim conquest and that this kingdom already exemplified the main characteristics of modern Spain. Thus, the conquest in 711 was a brutal fight between &ldquo;cristianos ind&iacute;genas y supuestos &aacute;rabes extranjeros.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">8 </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">The struggle led to a long period of foreign rule during which Muslims inhibited Catholic Spain&rsquo;s logical course of development. Finally, the Reconquest ousted the foreigners and revived the autochthonous Catholic state.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Clearly, a Catholic regime could employ this account of Spanish history to justify its hostility against Andalusian regional nationalists who consider Islam an important part of their identity. Indeed, Spanish governments dating from the reign of the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella (1469-1516) to the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) have used historical evidence to support a homogenous Catholic state. Thus, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> was right to attack several important flaws in the centralist historical interpretation. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manzano</strong> notes, for example, that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> called the supposed continuity of the Catholic state between the Visigoths and the Christians of the Reconquest a myth. Many people who fought in the Reconquest were at least as &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; as the Muslims themselves. In particular, numerous Frenchmen entered the Iberian Peninsula to repopulate the land abandoned by both Christians and Muslims in central Castile. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">According to <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manzano, </strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> considered it ridiculous to &ldquo;identificar a estos franceses que han constituido el reino de Castilla en el siglo XI con&hellip;la administraci&oacute;n visigoda en el siglo VIII.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">9</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Luckily, critics like </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> who have challenged centralist interpretations of Spanish history have helped to discredit these historical accounts in present-day Spain.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since Franco&rsquo;s death, democratic Spain has taken important steps towards recognizing Islam&rsquo;s important contribution to the country&rsquo;s diverse history. Escudero notes that the 1992 Acuerdo de Cooperaci&oacute;n (Agreement for Cooperation) between the Comisi&oacute;n Isl&aacute;mica de Espa&ntilde;a (Islamic Commission of Spain) and the Spanish state explicitly recognizes Islam&rsquo;s &ldquo;&lsquo;notorio y secular arraigo&rsquo; en Espa&ntilde;a y su &lsquo;relevante importancia en la formaci&oacute;n de la identidad espa&ntilde;ola.&rsquo;&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10 </span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For this reason, it is surprising that contemporary Andalusian nationalists who employ </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> historical interpretations to legitimate their separatist agendas claim that the Spanish government continues to use centralist historical views to repress Andalusia&rsquo;s regional interests. Nevertheless, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> does indeed state on its home web page that &ldquo;[i]nventaron el mito de la invasi&oacute;n &aacute;rabe, en el 711, y s&oacute;lo desde el odio se puede justificar el porqu&eacute; no se preocuparon, ni antes ni ahora, si ese mito es, social y cronol&oacute;gicamente posible.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Evidently, Andalusian separatist organizations like </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> rely on outmoded centralist interpretations of Spanish history to justify their anger over Spain&rsquo;s supposed mistreatment of Andalusia. Without these historical views, nationalists would have no way to prove their claim that Spain continues to subjugate Andalusia today and, consequently, would be unable to legitimate their call for an <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">independent Andalusian nation. </strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> regionalist version of Andalusian history refutes and even inverts the centralist interpretation&rsquo;s account of Islam&rsquo;s intervention in Al-Andalus. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manzano</strong> explains that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> historical views part from the premise that the earliest pre-Roman inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula already shared a unique &ldquo;ser andaluz.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Thus, &ldquo;[l]a historia andaluza&hellip;tiene una antig&uuml;edad de un mill&oacute;n de a&ntilde;os.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Later, the Phoenecians, Carthaginians, Romans and especially the Visigoths invaded Andalusia and imposed their regimes on the region&rsquo;s native tribes. Nevertheless, the Andalusian spirit lived on. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Manzano</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> writes that for </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">, &ldquo;[l]as sucesivas invasiones que sufre Andaluc&iacute;a suponen una simple influencia pol&iacute;tica, que marca los hechos externos&hellip;pero que no acaba con los hechos interiores que definen una cultura.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">14</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> By the early eighth century, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>the latent Andalusian identity began to rebel against the increasingly intolerable Visigothic rule. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In particular, the Andalusians found in the North African Muslims a suitable partner to overthrow the tyrannical Germanic invaders. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Manzano</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> explains that &ldquo;[l]a conquista se produce&mdash;seg&uacute;n </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Infante</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">&mdash;por la ayuda que estos &aacute;rabes prestan a los andaluces en su lucha contra el &lsquo;r&eacute;gimen feudalista germano.&rsquo;&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">15</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> other words, &ldquo;no hubo invasi&oacute;n&rdquo;: there was no Muslim conquest. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Muslims entered the Iberian Peninsula not to overthrow a unified Spanish state, but to liberate the enslaved Andalusians. Subsequently, the union between Islam and the ancient Andalusian character led to &ldquo;el afloramiento de una cultura que ser&aacute;&mdash;en palabras </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">de Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&mdash;&lsquo;foco cultural.&rsquo;&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Since the Muslims never conquered Andalusia, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> reasons that the so-called Reconquest of Spain was actually an invasion aimed at imposing Catholicism on the Andalusians, who by then had converted to Islam. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Manzano </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">concludes with </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> that &ldquo;[d]esde aqu&iacute; hasta nuestros d&iacute;as, [hay] toda una historia de ocultaci&oacute;n del &lsquo;genio&rsquo; andaluz tras la aparente asimilaci&oacute;n de la cultura impuesta.&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">17</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Evidently, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> interpretation of Andalusian history, like the opposing centralist version, depends less on an unbiased examination of historical evidence than a desire to legitimate a predetermined political program. Consequently, numerous flaws undermine </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> arguments. For instance, just as the centralists postulate an erroneous continuity between the Visigoths and the Catholics of the Reconquest, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> mistakenly identifies a single Andalusian character present in both the earliest inhabitants of the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula and later Hispano-Muslims. Since the concept of Andalusia came into being only when the Muslims entered the Iberian Peninsula and named it Al-Andalus after the Vandals, this idea about an ancient, stable Andalusian identity is entirely anachronistic (Williams 52). Additionally, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> fails to consider that during the eighth through eleventh centuries, Al-Andalus comprised most of the Iberian Peninsula (Williams 61). Castilian cities like Toledo have just as much Islamic architecture and history as other towns in the south. Thus, Muslim influences are not exclusive to contemporary Andalusia and do not provide an adequate basis for the region&rsquo;s separation from the rest of Spain. Finally, Blas Infante&rsquo;s arguments conveniently overlook the diverse groups whose varied identities have all contributed to the development of modern Andalusia. For instance, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> does not acknowledge the presence of Jews and Christians under Muslim rule in Al-Andalus. Evidently, he must sacrifice this diversity in order to promote a single Andalusian identity clearly opposed to what he considers Spain&rsquo;s distinct Catholic character.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In spite of the problems that plague </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> version of Andalusia&rsquo;s past, separatist groups have readily adopted his regionalist history to support their claims <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for Andalusian independence</strong>. In fact, the articles by Ruiz Romero and <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manzano</strong> that I have used to summarize </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> historical thought appear on Web Islam, a web site whose postings betray a clear tendency to promote Andalusian nationalism. The web pages of both<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Yama&rsquo;a Isl&aacute;mica de Al-Andalus</strong> and </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> also contain articles about </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> and links to his texts. Furthermore</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> &ldquo;Breve historia de Andaluc&iacute;a&rdquo; coincides on numerous points with </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> vision of Andalusian history.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">The subtitles of each section of this history&mdash;&ldquo;La identidad andaluza en la prehistoria,&rdquo; &ldquo;Dominaci&oacute;n visigoda y proceso emancipador andaluz&rdquo; and &ldquo;Desde la conquista castellana hasta nuestros d&iacute;as&rdquo;</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&mdash;correspond to </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> ideas about an ancient Andalusian identity, the Muslim liberation of the Andalusians and the Catholic conquest of Al-Andalus.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Clearly, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blas Infante&rsquo;s</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> historical work is still valuable for Andalusian separatists today.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">While extremist nationalists will undoubtedly continue to argue for Andalusian sovereignty for decades to come, Spain&rsquo;s increasingly better understanding of its Islamic past and greater acceptance of present-day Muslims will likely thwart a separatist success.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Craig Whitlock&rsquo;s online article &ldquo;A &lsquo;Chunnel&rsquo; for Spain and Morocco&rdquo; states that Spanish officials recently took steps to plan an underwater tunnel beneath the Straight of Gibraltar to connect Spain with Africa. This action exemplifies democratic Spain&rsquo;s willingness to strenghten its relations with a predominately Muslim country. Evidently, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andalusian separatists</strong> can no longer argue that Spain&rsquo;s Catholic state oppresses Andalusia&rsquo;s distinct Islamic character. In my opinion, these Andalusians should take pride in the achievements of Al-Andalus and in the unique Muslim society that flourished in the Iberian Peninsula for more than seven centuries. At the same time, they should recognize a wide variety of other historical influences that have both made Andalusia unique and identified the region with the rest of Spain. Luckily, the Andalusians whom I&rsquo;ve met equally acknowledge their regional and national identities.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">NOTAS ARTICULO</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1 </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;Andalusia is a country with a land area of more than 87 thousand square kilometers and with a population of approximately seven million inhabitants. It is located in the southernmost region of the Iberian Peninsula.&rdquo; All translations are my own.<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;I see Andalusian nationalism as a common cultural and historic experience: first, as the experience of Islam.&rdquo; </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">of the 1980s, the most radical nationalist organizations doubled as special interest groups for Muslims. <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> &ldquo;political organization that, while respecting current legislation and rejecting violence as a political instrument,works for the national reconstruction, territorial integrity and independence of Andalusia, thereby rejecting the Spanish state to which we are forced to belong.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;historically, we have adopted Islam as a project and personal belief, and most of us continue to do so today.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;observations and verses in Arabic or with Arabic origins.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">6</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;Blas Infante&rsquo;s political ideal&hellip;presupposes the recuperation of the historical memory of Al-Andalus, the study of the present-day implications of the heritage left us by Muslim culture, and the rejection of all centralist theories. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">based on the hegemony of self-imposing, insulting Christian ideologies. In short, [these Christian ideologies represent] the falsification of the history and culture of a people [the Andalusians] to better subjugate that nation.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">7</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;attempts to strengthen the idea of the unity of Spain, based on a supposed Visigothic state in which already existed the political and religious unity later revived by the Reconquest.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">8</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;indigenous Christians and so-called Arab foreigners.&rdquo; <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">9</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;to identify these Frenchmen who formed the kingdom of Castile in the eleventh century with&hellip;the Visigothic administration in the eighth century.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;&lsquo;well-known, age-old roots&rsquo; in Spain and its &lsquo;relative importance in the formation of the Spanish identity.&rsquo;&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;they invented the myth of the Arab invasion in 711 and only envy and hate can explain why they have not asked themselves, neither then nor now, if this myth is socially or chronologically possible.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;Andalusian essence or identity.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13 </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;Andalusian history&hellip;is a million years old.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;the successive invasions suffered by Andalusia constituted a simple political influence which characterized the superficial [historical] facts&hellip;but which did not eliminate the more profound facts that define a culture.&rdquo;<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;according to Blas Infante, the help lent <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by the Arabs to the Andalusians in their fight against the &lsquo;feudalist German regimen&rsquo; led to the conquest.&rdquo;<br /></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;motivate a cultural blossoming that was&mdash;to use Infante&rsquo;s terms&mdash;a &lsquo;cultural beacon.&rsquo;&rdquo;<br /></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;from then until today, [there is] an entire history of suppression of the Andalusian &lsquo;essence&rsquo; and apparent assimilation of the hegemonic culture.&rdquo;<br /></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&ldquo;Andalusian Identity Before the Dawn of History,&rdquo; &ldquo;Visigothic Domination and the Process of Andalusian Emancipation&rdquo; and &ldquo;From the Castilian Conquest until Today.&rdquo;</span></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p></span>]]></description>            <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:49:09 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>9-M, resaca y consecuencias</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/03/00090-9-m-resaca-y-consecuencias.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;"><strong><img border="0" height="110" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/2/d/2d85fd9a.jpg" style="border: 0; float: left;" width="145" />Conclusiones y compromisos de una derrota electoral</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;"><strong>Las elecciones del d&iacute;a 9-M han supuesto cuanto menos una gran decepci&oacute;n y porque no decirlo, una derrota para los Soberanistas andaluces en particular y para los andaluces de conciencia en general.&nbsp; Ha sido un varapalo grande y as&iacute; lo entendemos y asumimos.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista y en la medida que nos corresponde, <strong>Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</strong>, no hemos sabido transmitir a la sociedad la ilusi&oacute;n y la necesidad de un Poder Andaluz, esta vez en una Coalici&oacute;n plural y renovada. Hemos cometidos errores, especialmente, a la hora de transmitir un mensaje claro y rotundo que ilusionase a los andaluces, sin tener en cuenta, claro esta, el papel jugado por los medios de comunicaci&oacute;n, dando una informaci&oacute;n testimonial de los actos de la Coalici&oacute;n, hurtando a los ciudadanos el derecho a la informaci&oacute;n en igualdad de condiciones. No ha sido lo m&aacute;s importante, como analizamos m&aacute;s abajo, pero no nos enga&ntilde;emos, tambi&eacute;n influye.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Esta lecci&oacute;n la tendremos en cuenta y a partir de esta experiencia sacaremos futuras conclusiones. Que no espere nadie rasgaduras de vestiduras, llantos o desfallecimientos. Nuestra lucha, nuestro trabajo, contin&uacute;a como siempre. Unas elecciones son muy importantes, pero en ellas no se cuestionaba casi nada. Nosotros cuestionamos la &ldquo;unidad&rdquo; del Estado. Nosotros aspiramos a la Independencia y por ella seguimos trabajando.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Es importante tener en cuenta varios aspectos que no por muchas veces repetidos, son menos importantes.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andaluc&iacute;a desde la constituci&oacute;n de nuestro Parlamento en 1.982, <strong>s&oacute;lo en las primeras elecciones y en las de 1.990,</strong> han sido elecciones netamente andaluzas. El resto de las convocatorias, seis, el discurso andaluz ha quedado solapado, escondido, maltratado, humillado por un debate entre espa&ntilde;olistas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Otras dos humillaciones a Andaluc&iacute;a, provienen de los mismos &Oacute;rganos del Parlamento Andaluz:&nbsp; N&uacute;mero de parlamentarios en consonancia con nuestra poblaci&oacute;n y porcentaje m&iacute;nimo para el reparto de electos.&nbsp; Cada Parlamento de Comunidad Aut&oacute;noma puede legislar en ambos aspectos. A Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza nos duele el alma de repetir y exigir a los partidos las modificaciones pertinentes. Ni caso nos han hecho hasta el d&iacute;a de hoy las direcciones de IUCA y de PA. Ayer s&iacute; sali&oacute; Valderas reclamando la inconstitucionalidad que representa esta injusticia, una m&aacute;s a Andaluc&iacute;a.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Una vez m&aacute;s, vamos a repetir n&uacute;meros y cifras &iquest;<strong>ser&aacute; la &uacute;ltima</strong>?.<br /><strong>Andaluc&iacute;a:&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.059.461.&nbsp; Diputados 109<br /></strong>1 diputado por cada 73.940 andaluces<br /><strong>Catalunya:&nbsp; 7.210.508.&nbsp; Diputados 135</strong><br />1 diputado por&nbsp; 53.411 Habitantes<br /><strong>Comunidad de Madrid:&nbsp; 6.081.689 Diputados 120<br /></strong>1 diputado por&nbsp; 50.680 habitantes<br /><strong>Comunidad&nbsp; Valenciana: 4.885.029 Diputados 99</strong><br />1 diputado por&nbsp; 49.343</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;">Si nuestro Parlamento estuviese democr&aacute;tica e equitativamente representado como esas otras Naciones, esta ser&iacute;a su composici&oacute;n:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Andalucia:</span></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.059.461&nbsp; 159 ser&iacute;a cada&nbsp; 50.688 Habitantes<br />Seg&uacute;n Catalunya, nos corresponder&iacute;an:&nbsp; 151<br />Seg&uacute;n la Comunidad de Madrid: 159<br />Seg&uacute;n la Comunidad&nbsp; Valenciana:&nbsp; 163</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Si la Ley electoral andaluza, fuese justa, equitativa, democr&aacute;tica y al igual que en otros Parlamentos el m&iacute;nimo exigido fuese el 3%, a&uacute;n con la debacle, C.A.&nbsp; estar&iacute;a representada. En tres circunscripciones ha sobrepasado la barrera:<br /><strong>C&aacute;diz ha tenido 4,19%</strong>&nbsp; habr&iacute;a 1 parlamentario<br /><strong>C&oacute;rdoba con el 3,16%</strong> no alcanzar&iacute;a al reparto<br />y <strong>Sevilla con 3,21%</strong> tambi&eacute;n tendr&iacute;a 1 parlamentario.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Para finalizar si Andaluc&iacute;a tuviese, como nos corresponde un Parlamento compuesto por 159 o m&aacute;s parlamentarios y si la Ley Electoral fijase el 3%, <strong>IUCA tendr&iacute;a hoy en &eacute;l, 12 parlamentarios</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Los datos, cifras, n&uacute;meros, los llevamos denunciando desde 2.003. Han&nbsp; sido 8 art&iacute;culos publicados en la prensa andaluza, en nuestras webs y enviados a las direcciones de P.A. e IUCA &iquest;se mojar&aacute;n ahora?. Los principales beneficiarios ser&iacute;an ellos, pero parece que les de verg&uuml;enza reivindicar justicia y democracia. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Qu&eacute; ser&iacute;a del pueblo trabajador si los sindicatos hist&oacute;ricamente no exigiesen mejoras y equiparidad: <br />&iquest;<strong>esperar&iacute;an a que la patronal se &ldquo;lo concediese</strong>&rdquo;?.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;"><strong>Andaluc&iacute;a 12 de marzo de 2008<br />Al-Mansur Castillo Mor&oacute;n<br />Secretario de la Mesa Nacional de<br />LIBERACION ANDALUZA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;"><strong></strong></span></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:06:38 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Razones soberanistas para votar a Coalición Andalucista</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/03/00089-razones-soberanistas-para-votar-a-coalicion-andalucista.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><img border="0" height="121" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/1/0/10c41b47.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0; margin: 1px;" width="183" /><span style="font-size: small;">Millares de andaluces votantes de otros partidos, durante a&ntilde;os se han dirigido a las diferentes Organizaciones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>que nos reclamamos andalucistas, nacionalistas, soberanistas&hellip;, dici&eacute;ndonos lo importante que ser&iacute;a una Organizaci&oacute;n unitaria,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>andaluza, que ellos la votar&iacute;an.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Por defender cada uno nuestra parcela o parcelita de partido, desde 1.978 no ha sido posible, las responsabilidades son de todos.</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>esos compatriotas andaluces, les decimos que esa Organizaci&oacute;n ya est&aacute; en marcha. El d&iacute;a 9 todos los andaluces tenemos la oportunidad de elegir una papeleta andaluza. Esta vez no hay divisi&oacute;n. S&oacute;lo hay una papeleta en la que nos sentimos representados los que llevamos decenas de a&ntilde;os reclam&aacute;ndonos nacionalistas y soberanistas. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">En Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista estamos andaluces que se definen como federalistas, confederalistas, y soberanistas que orgullosamente pedimos la Independencia, que no nos sentimos y no queremos ser espa&ntilde;oles. Alguno pensar&aacute;, vaya gazpacho. No, es un plato t&iacute;pico andaluz. Todos tenemos como referente Andaluc&iacute;a. Todos queremos que los problemas y el progreso se cocinen, se elaboren, se decidan en Andaluc&iacute;a y por andaluces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>El camino que tenemos es largo, nuestra<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Historia tambi&eacute;n, es milenaria; por tanto tenemos mucho tramo del camino en el que trabajar codo con codo y necesitamos ilusi&oacute;n, trabajo y paciencia para conseguirlo. Estamos acostumbrados, hacen m&aacute;ss 500 a&ntilde;os que perdimos la Soberan&iacute;a. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">La invitaci&oacute;n que hicieron PA y PSA al resto de las Organizaciones que hoy estamos en C.A. y alguna otra que de momento no se ha integrado, no es ninguna novedad. En el Estado espa&ntilde;ol esa experiencia se ha vivido y con mucho &eacute;xito en otras Naciones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>El BNG es un buen ejemplo de funcionamiento. Todos son BNG pero los partidos, asociaciones que lo conforman, siguen teniendo su vida propia. Coalici&oacute;n Canaria es un caso parecido; en Catalunya Converg&egrave;ncia i Uni&oacute;, es otra experiencia positiva.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">En el caso andaluz, no hemos dispuesto del tiempo necesario para plasmar qu&eacute; tipo de Organizaci&oacute;n tendremos. La <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>determinaci&oacute;n de todos, es que esto es s&oacute;lamente el inicio, los primeros pasos. El d&iacute;a 10 de marzo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>vamos a empezar a andar de verdad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>C.A., no es la integraci&oacute;n de unos en otro, es un nuevo Proyecto y nosotros, Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, por eso apostamos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">El d&iacute;a 9 de marzo ofrecemos a los andaluces,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>recuperar la alegr&iacute;a perdida en estos a&ntilde;os</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">de somnolencia y letargo. Ofrecemos recuperar la vitalidad, espontaneidad que posibilitaron el 4-D o el calvario que nos impusieron los de Madrid, hasta conseguir la victoria del 28-F.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Vamos a trasladar a los ciudadanos andaluces la misma magia, frescura, diversi&oacute;n que hemos experimentado en estos d&iacute;as de campa&ntilde;a. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Como andaluces militantes. seremos exigentes con los compromisos adquiridos por el Estado y no cumplidos. La Junta de Andaluc&iacute;a en 26 a&ntilde;os de gobierno, ha sido complaciente. Hace dos a&ntilde;os cada d&iacute;a nos recordaban el impago de la Deuda Hist&oacute;rica, en un a&ntilde;o de gobierno monocolor en Madrid y en Andaluc&iacute;a, no se han atrevido ni siquiera a cuantificar qu&eacute; dinero nos debe abonar el Estado. Esa es la modernidad, y el avance que tenemos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Andaluc&iacute;a necesita otros aires, otra actitud. Los nacionalistas hemos empezado por cambiar primero nosotros mismos. Ahora necesitamos que todos los miles de ciudadanos que nos han pedido y exigido rigor, flexibilidad, imaginaci&oacute;n, etc, que ellos tambi&eacute;n cambien. Esos andaluces tienen el deber moral de prestarnos sus votos el d&iacute;a 9. Ellos y nosotros sabemos que si sus papeletas van a partidos espa&ntilde;oles, todo seguir&aacute; igual. Gobern&oacute; el PP 8 a&ntilde;os y el progreso fue nulo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Volvi&oacute; a gobernar el Estado el PSOE y m&aacute;s de lo mismo. Los diputados de esos partidos, est&aacute;n m&aacute;s pendientes de las autopistas del <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Norte que de la A-92. M&aacute;s del puerto de Barcelona, que de los de M&aacute;laga o Algeciras, y as&iacute; en todos los aspectos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Seamos valientes, las Organizaciones andaluzas para andar en el mismo sentido y los andaluces para darnos una oportunidad a nosotros mismos. Esa oportunidad hoy se llama Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista. Los soberanistas andaluces de Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, ya hemos andado en esa direcci&oacute;n, la responsabilidad ahora es de todos, no s&oacute;lo de los pol&iacute;ticos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andaluc&iacute;a 4 de marzo de 2008</span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MESA NACIONAL DE LIBERACI&Oacute;N ANDALUZA</span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Antonio L. Calder&oacute;n D&iacute;az</span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Coordinador General de L.A.<br /></span></span></span></strong></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:18:54 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Una reforma necesaria</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00088-una-reforma-necesaria.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="139" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/1/1/11abf03c.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0px;" width="200" /><span style="color: #008000; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nos estafan por habitantes y por hect&aacute;reas</span></span></span></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="color: #008000;">El 28-F, el Pueblo Andaluz, se moviliz&oacute;, se concienci&oacute; y luch&oacute; para tener las mismas oportunidades que Catalunya, Euskal Herria y Galicia. Pues s&oacute;lo en las primeras elecciones de 23 de mayo 1.982 y en la Tercera Legislatura de 23 de junio 1.990, los andaluces hemos acudido a las urnas pensando s&oacute;lo en Andaluc&iacute;a.</span> </strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Otras Comunidades como C. de Valencia o C. de Madrid en los &uacute;ltimos a&ntilde;os han aumentado el n&uacute;mero de sus Parlamentarios en proporci&oacute;n<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>al crecimiento de su poblaci&oacute;n. Seg&uacute;n los datos obtenidos del INE la poblaci&oacute;n de Andaluc&iacute;a en 1.981, ascend&iacute;a a 6.441.149. La poblaci&oacute;n a d&iacute;a de hoy seg&uacute;n la misma fuente es de 8.059.461. A pesar de este aumento de poblaci&oacute;n, el partido y el Presidente que nos gobiernan como si lloviese. Ellos saben que si estuvi&eacute;ramos democr&aacute;ticamente representados las minor&iacute;as estar&iacute;an mejor representadas y<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>algunas otras opciones podr&iacute;an estar en el Parlamento. Tienen miedo PSOE y PP a que eso suceda. Sus partidos estatales apoyan la infra representaci&oacute;n andaluza (Cantabria<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>572.824 h. y 39 parlamentarios, Almer&iacute;a 646.633 h. y 11 parlamentarios).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">En septiembre de 2.003, los Soberanistas andaluces, elaboramos un informe sobre el n&uacute;mero de parlamentarios andaluces, nuestra poblaci&oacute;n y la falta de proporcionalidad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>con el resto de Comunidades Aut&oacute;nomas.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ese informe fue enviado a los Portavoces Parlamentarios andaluces, urgi&eacute;ndoles la necesidad de modificar la Ley Electoral en dos aspectos concretos: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;">1,. Aumento del n&uacute;mero de parlamentarios proporcional a nuestra poblaci&oacute;n.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #008000;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;">2- Y que<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>el 3% de los votos v&aacute;lidos emitidos por circunscripci&oacute;n fuese el m&iacute;nimo exigible para optar a un esca&ntilde;o..</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">El 3% esta ya establecido en las elecciones al Congreso de Madrid y en varias Comunidades y por ejemplo en Euskadi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Izquierda Unida tiene Parlamentarios y est&aacute; en el Gobierno por esta Ley y Aralar igualmente, ninguna de las dos Organizaciones alcanza el 5% en ninguna de las tres circunscripciones vascas.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Confiando en no aburrirles es necesario exponer como se conforman los Parlamentos de otras Naciones del Estado espa&ntilde;ol y comparar con que desprecio somos tratados los ciudadanos andaluces. Que cada uno saque sus consecuencias. Son cifras, n&uacute;meros, pero que se pueden traducir en crecimiento, prosperidad, pluralidad&hellip;y bienestar para todos los andaluces.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Andalucia:</strong></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n: 8.059.461</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados:Auton&oacute;micos: 109,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1 diputado por cada 73.940 andaluces</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>87.268 Kms2 </strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Arag&oacute;n:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n: 1.296.655</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>67,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1 diputado<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>por cada 19.353 aragoneses</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metross2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>47.688</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Cantabria:</strong></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>572.824</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos: 39,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>1 diputado por cada<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>14.688 c&aacute;ntabros</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>5.289</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Castilla y Le&oacute;n: </strong></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>2.528.417<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>83,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>1 diputado<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>por cada 30.463 castellanos</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>93.863</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Catalunya:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n: 7.210.508</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>135, 1 diputado<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>por cada 53.411 catalanes</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>32.025</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Comunidad de Madrid:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n: 6.081.689<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos: 120,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>1 diputado madrile&ntilde;o por cada 50.681 madrile&ntilde;os</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>8.022</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Euskadi:</strong></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Poblaci&oacute;n: 2.141.860</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Diputados Auton&oacute;micos: 75, 1 diputado<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>por cada 28.558 vascos</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Kil&oacute;metros2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>7.082</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Instamos a las direcciones de <strong>Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista</strong> y de <strong>Izquierda Unida</strong> para que p&uacute;blicamente se comprometan a presentar en el Parlamento una proposici&oacute;n de Ley que nos equipare no s&oacute;lo con las Comunidades llamadas Hist&oacute;ricas, sino con Rioja, Cantabria, etc.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #008000;">Andaluc&iacute;a 27 de febrero de 2008</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;">Al-Mansur Castillo Mor&oacute;n</span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;">Secretario de la Mesa Nacional de</span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">LIBERACION ANDALUZA</span></strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:51:41 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Coalición Andalucista, una casa donde convivimos los andaluces de conciencia</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00087-coalicion-andalucista-una-casa-donde-convivimos-los-andaluces-de-conciencia.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/f/1/f16bd138.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px; border-width: 0px;" width="197" /><span style="font-size: medium;">Como Don Blas Infante, pensamos:</span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: green;">"El</span></em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: white;"> </span></em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: green;">premio que m&aacute;s me estimular&iacute;a: el poder vivir en andaluz, percibir en andaluz, ser en andaluz o escribir en Andaluz".</span></em></strong></p><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;<span style="font-size: small;">El pr&oacute;ximo 9 de marzo,&nbsp; las andaluzas y los andaluces volveremos a acudir a las urnas,&nbsp; y una&nbsp; vez m&aacute;s, <strong>volveremos a ser&nbsp; hurtados de un debate en andaluz</strong>. No podremos saber las alternativas y propuestas sobre la vivienda, el paro, las drogas, la situaci&oacute;n econ&oacute;mica de miles de andaluzas y andaluces, o el grado de cumplimiento de nuestro Estatuto de Autonom&iacute;a, por poner algunos ejemplos,&nbsp; y todo porque el bipartidismo, PSOE-PP, izquierda y derecha, nos impondr&aacute;n otro debate, y sobre todo, porque&nbsp; <strong>estos partidos conciben a Andaluc&iacute;a como un granero</strong> de votos para Zapatero y Rajoy <br /><br /><strong>Los soberanistas de Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</strong>, integrados en <strong>Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista</strong>, tenemos un Proyecto que difiere de las otras Organizaciones que configuran esta Coalici&oacute;n, es l&oacute;gico; por ello, <strong>no hemos pretendido nunca que nuestras aspiraciones justas, leg&iacute;timas e identitarias, se incluyan&nbsp; en el Programa de la Coalici&oacute;n</strong>. Pero nuestro compromiso es y ser&aacute;, despu&eacute;s del 9 de Marzo, aportar nuestra larga experiencia de <strong>23 a&ntilde;os reivindicando la Dignidad, Soberan&iacute;a e Independencia de nuestro Pueblo</strong>; en definitiva, un compromiso de reconstrucci&oacute;n nacional.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ahora, en estas elecciones, los andaluces de conciencia nos jugamos mucho, tener unas voces fuertes, importantes, <strong>que hablen de y sobre Andaluc&iacute;a</strong> en Madrid y sobretodo en el Parlamento de Andaluc&iacute;a.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">El esfuerzo que cada una de las Organizaciones integradas en <strong>Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista</strong>, por dejarse pelos en la gatera de sus convicciones, deber&iacute;a ser visto por los medios de comunicaci&oacute;n, en particular y por los ciudadanos andaluces en general,&nbsp; como la mayor aportaci&oacute;n positiva que se ofrece al Pueblo Andaluz.&nbsp; <strong>Las hemerotecas servir&aacute;n en a&ntilde;os venideros como fuente de informaci&oacute;n para estudios e investigaciones sobre Andaluc&iacute;a y el andalucismo pol&iacute;tico y militante</strong>.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">El hecho hist&oacute;rico de que personas y Organizaciones, con una cultura y trayectoria muy diversa, con una carga ideol&oacute;gica de muchos a&ntilde;os trabajando en sectores diferentes y con aportaciones del campo marxista, del mundo universitario, de los jornaleros, del movimiento vecinal,&nbsp; etc, y que en gran medida los Soberanistas las hacemos propias, hacen de Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista, la &uacute;nica propuestas renovadora y moderna, contra lo antiguo y rancio que representa el PSOE-PP.&nbsp; </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nuestras exigencias, para integrarnos en Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista,&nbsp; han sido m&iacute;nimas. Hemos expuesto las aportaciones que durante a&ntilde;os hemos reivindicado (Gibraltar, Patrimonio Andaluz, reforma electoral, polic&iacute;a aut&oacute;noma, que los docentes no andaluces tengan un filtro de idoneidad, ubicaci&oacute;n de las Consejer&iacute;as en diversas ciudades, etc).</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Nuestra &uacute;nica condici&oacute;n</strong>, <strong>sencilla, de reconciliaci&oacute;n hist&oacute;rica, de dignidad</strong> fue aceptada y compartida. Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza se ha comprometido con Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista, con s&oacute;lo asumir estas breves l&iacute;neas:</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.-Que Andaluc&iacute;a es una Naci&oacute;n con una historia y un pueblo milenario. </span></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.-Que dentro de la cultura andaluza la andalus&iacute; es una parte importante de la misma. </span></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.-Que reconocemos al pueblo andaluz que se extiende fuera de los l&iacute;mites territoriales actuales de Andaluc&iacute;a y expl&iacute;citamente a andalus&iacute;es y moriscos de la Di&aacute;spora como parte de la Historia del pueblo andaluz.</span></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nuestra organizaci&oacute;n y nuestros militantes, nuestros simpatizantes <strong>aportaremos todo nuestro trabajo y esfuerzo para recuperar la ilusi&oacute;n de ser, vivir y sentir en andaluz que hoy podemos expresarlo votando el d&iacute;a 9 de marzo a Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;">Andaluc&iacute;a a 22 de febrero de 2008</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;">Antonio Lu&iacute;s Calder&oacute;n D&iacute;az<br />Coordinador Nacional&nbsp; de L.A.<br /></span></strong></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:25:48 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Ningún español, representa a los musulmanes andaluces</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00086-ningun-espanol-representa-a-los-musulmanes-andaluces.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">DESAYUNUS&nbsp;&nbsp; INTERRUPTUS<br /></span></strong></p><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Hoy por la ma&ntilde;ana a las 8:45 hrs me dispon&iacute;a a desayunar frente al televisor como todas las ma&ntilde;anas, como era domingo, puse la 2 para ver <span style="font-size: large; color: #008000;">Islam Hoy</span> y disfrutar de un placentero desayuno, nada mas lejos de la realidad, ese placentero momento fue enturbiado por la intervenci&oacute;n del Sr. Malik Abderram&aacute;n Ruiz Callejas, presidente de la <em><span style="color: #808080;">"Comunidad Isl&aacute;mica en Espa&ntilde;a"</span></em> y director de la Mezquita Mayor de Granada.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-size: small;">Este buen hombre, y no lo digo ir&oacute;nicamente, se dispon&iacute;a a afirmar que 1.500.000 aproxim&aacute;damente de musulmanes que hay en el estado espa&ntilde;ol, no tenemos suficiente peso como para formar un partido pol&iacute;tico, seguro que cuando dijo tal barbaridad no era consciente de que ERC obtuvo en las pasadas elecciones generales 141.000 votos, CiU 689.000 o IU que obtuvo 909.000 votos. Claro que si se trata de estar unidos al poder, aunque sea en condici&oacute;n de serviles lacayos, estos datos no cuentan.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tambi&eacute;n aseveraba este se&ntilde;or que los musulmanes no queremos la restituci&oacute;n de&nbsp;&nbsp; Al- Andalus. <strong>Algunos, musulmanes o no, lo que no queremos es volver a desplazarnos montados a caballo con un turbante en la cabeza, pero si un Al Andalus del siglo XXI, continuar con el esp&iacute;ritu de tan floreciente &eacute;poca, de mecenismo cultural o de estructura administrativa similar.</strong> <strong>Como escribiera el tambi&eacute;n musulm&aacute;n, D. Blas Infante, y muchos cantamos hoy en d&iacute;a, "Los andaluces queremos volver a ser lo que fuimos, hombres de luz que a los hombres almas de hombres les dimos".</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; En cuanto a lo que anteriormente digo de estructura administrativa similar, me refer&iacute;a a las "Coras", comarcas de la &eacute;poca, cuyo sistema fue una de tantas aportaciones a Europa de Al-Andalus, y que fuese desarrollada entre otras naciones por Francia tras la revoluci&oacute;n francesa.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Estoy de acuerdo en no mezclar religi&oacute;n y pol&iacute;tica, reivindicar un Al Andalus moderno no tiene porque ir unido a la pol&iacute;tica, <strong>de hecho hay un partido pol&iacute;tico como es Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, recientemente integrado en Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista</strong>, que lo hace, y a &eacute;l pertenecen musulmanes, cristianos, ateos, etc, y no me cabe la menor duda, de que jud&iacute;os o cualquier otro creyente son bienvenidos en esta formaci&oacute;n.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">El Sr. Ruiz, puede representar los derechos de los musulmanes, como hizo pidiendo cementerios p&uacute;blicos isl&aacute;micos o como debiera haber hecho pidiendo una igualdad en la pr&aacute;ctica religiosa, es decir, que al igual que los cristianos llaman al rezo tocando las campanas de las iglesias cada 15 minutos, se permitan llamadas al rezo musulm&aacute;n 5 veces al d&iacute;a. <strong>Lo que este se&ntilde;or no representa es el pensamiento ni las ideas pol&iacute;ticas de los musulmanes ya que no ha sido elegido democr&aacute;ticamente por nosotros.</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Xuanxo (Ashraf) Bardibia<br /><br /></span></span></strong></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:22:22 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Kosovo, ya es un Estado Soberano</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00085-kosovo-ya-es-un-estado-soberano.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img border="0" height="178" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/c/3/c3968b1c.jpg" width="161" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><span style="color: #006400;"><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kosova e Lire</span> </span></strong><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;"><strong>La Mesa Nacional de Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, reunida con car&aacute;cter extraordinario, ha acordado, hacer p&uacute;blico el siguiente comunicado:</strong></span></span></p><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Desde Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, felicitamos al pueblo kosovar por la proclamaci&oacute;n de su Independencia. Los obst&aacute;culos han sido muchos, duros y dif&iacute;ciles, pero el tiempo les ha recompensado todos los sufrimientos en pro de la Libertad que persegu&iacute;an y<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>por la que han trabajado.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Una vez m&aacute;s se demuestra que cuando un pueblo, mayoritariamente y de forma pac&iacute;fica y democr&aacute;tica,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>lucha por su soberan&iacute;a, esta no se puede resistir, a intereses pol&iacute;ticos o econ&oacute;micos de otras naciones.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Los agoreros del centralismo y de la opresi&oacute;n de otros Pueblos, nos dec&iacute;an en 1.985 que Europa con la independencia en 1920 de Irlanda, hab&iacute;an cerrado el mapa pol&iacute;tico, que no admit&iacute;a m&aacute;s cambios. En los a&ntilde;os noventa con los nuevos Estados surgidos de la Uni&oacute;n Sovi&eacute;tica y de Yugoeslavia, tambi&eacute;n daban por finalizado el mapa Europeo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Se equivocaron y se equivocan, solo hay que mirar el mapa pol&iacute;tico europeo para poder comprobarlo y ver como han nacido un buen pu&ntilde;ado de nuevas naciones, que hoy son mimadas para integrar la Uni&oacute;n Europea, y lo m&aacute;s importante, en los pr&oacute;ximos a&ntilde;os, volveremos a ver el nacimiento de nuevas naciones.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Lamentablemente, el gobierno espa&ntilde;ol, esta vez con el apoyo del PP, niegan el derecho y la Independencia del pueblo kosovar, quiz&aacute;s, por el miedo a que &ldquo;su&rdquo; unidad nacional, que m&aacute;s pronto que tarde tambi&eacute;n tendr&aacute; consecuencias.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza que desde su fundaci&oacute;n en el 1985, viene reclamando, de forma pacifica y democr&aacute;tica, el derecho a la autodeterminaci&oacute;n de Andaluc&iacute;a, y espera que m&aacute;s pronto que tarde, Andaluc&iacute;a, nuestra Naci&oacute;n, con el trabajo y la decisi&oacute;n de los andaluces de conciencia, tambi&eacute;n podamos reconstruir nuestro propio Estado, hoy situado en el vag&oacute;n de cola del paro, la pobreza la ense&ntilde;anza, etc. del Estado espa&ntilde;ol. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span>&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span>&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Viva Kosovo Libre</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Viva el Pueblo kosovar </span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Viva Andaluc&iacute;a Libre e Independiente</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Andaluc&iacute;a a 17 de febrero de 2008</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>MESA NACIONAL DE LIBERACION ANDALUZA</strong></span></span></p><br />]]></description>            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:53:15 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Pacto entre Liberación Andaluza y Coalición Andalucista</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00084-pacto-entre-liberacion-andaluza-y-coalicion-andalucista.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<h2 style="margin: auto 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/b/5/b58685f2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px; border: 0px;" width="139" />L.A. aporta a C.A. el trabajo de nuestros militantes, el sentido del ideal andaluz libertario y andalus&iacute;, la rebeld&iacute;a morisca y nuestro compromiso andalus&iacute;.</span></span></h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Comunicado a los Medios de Comunicaci&oacute;n</span> <br /><br /><span style="color: #00bf00;">Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza y Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista<br /></span></strong><br /><strong>Ayer se firm&oacute; el Pacto de Adhesi&oacute;n, despu&eacute;s de dos meses de contactos.</strong> <br /><br />L.A. aporta al programa una serie de puntos que durante a&ntilde;os hemos defendido: <br /><strong><strong>- </strong></strong>Sobre Gibraltar <br /><span style="color: #00bf00;">-</span> Modificaciones en la Ley Electoral <br /><strong><span style="color: #00bf00;">-</span></strong> Aumento del n&uacute;mero de Diputados en el Parlamento andaluz, seg&uacute;n la poblaci&oacute;n de nuestra Naci&oacute;n (C. Madrid 120 diputados, censo 6.081.689, Andaluc&iacute;a 109 diputados, censo 8.059.461), as&iacute; el resto de las Comunidades. <br /><span style="color: #00bf00;"><strong>-</strong> </span>Sobre la formaci&oacute;n de todos los docentes de conocer nuestra Geograf&iacute;a, Historia, e idiosincrasia). <br /><br />Pero la aportaci&oacute;n por la que se han alargado los contactos es una espec&iacute;fica e imprescindible para los que nos reclamamos andalus&iacute;es. <br />La generosidad de C.A. y el compromiso que tienen con la Cultura e Historia ha posibilitado que la Norma Cuarta exprese esta petici&oacute;n: <br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>CUARTA.- Que la Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista comparte con Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza:</strong> <br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>- Que Andaluc&iacute;a es una Naci&oacute;n con una historia y un pueblo milenario. <br />- Que dentro de la cultura andaluza la andalus&iacute; es una parte importante de la misma. <br />- Que reconocemos al pueblo andaluz que se extiende fuera de los l&iacute;mites territoriales actuales de Andaluc&iacute;a y expl&iacute;citamente a andalus&iacute;es y moriscos de la Di&aacute;spora como parte de la Historia del pueblo andaluz</strong>.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /><br />Con este compromiso hist&oacute;rico, desde L.A. seremos socios honestos, leales, que dejando muchos pelos en la gatera de nuestras aspiraciones, desde ayer d&iacute;a 31 estamos trabajando por el &eacute;xito electoral de C.A. el dia 9-M, pero tambi&eacute;n con las vista puesta en el d&iacute;a 10 de marzo para consolidar esta oportunidad en pro de Andaluc&iacute;a. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #00bf00;">Andaluc&iacute;a 1 de marzo de 2.008 <br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Mesa Nacional de LIBERACI&Oacute;N ANDALUZA</span></span></strong><br style="clear: both;" /></span></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:48:14 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Liberación Andaluza, firma hoy la adhesión a Coalición Andalucista</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00083-liberacion-andaluza-firma-hoy-la-adhesion-a-coalicion-andalucista.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #00bf00;"><br /><em><img border="0" height="150" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/c/9/c9b6b4e7.jpg" style="border: 0; float: left; margin: 6px;" width="150" />&nbsp;</em><span style="color: #00bf00;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista comparte con Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza: <br /></span><br />- Que Andaluc&iacute;a es una Naci&oacute;n con una historia y un pueblo milenario <br />- Que dentro de la cultura andaluza la andalus&iacute; es una parte importante de la misma <br />- Que reconocemos al pueblo andaluz que se extiende fuera de los l&iacute;mites territoriales actuales de Andaluc&iacute;a y expl&iacute;citamente a andalus&iacute;es y moriscos de la Di&aacute;spora como parte de la Historia del pueblo andaluz</strong>.</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><br /><br /><strong><br /><em>Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza, despu&eacute;s de dos&nbsp;meses de&nbsp;&nbsp;contactos, agrade la generosidad y altura&nbsp;&nbsp;de miras de C.A., al asumir Propuestas de nuestra Organizaci&oacute;n.</em></strong></span><strong> <br /></strong><br /><br /><strong>En la ciudad de M&aacute;laga a treinta y uno de enero de dos mil ocho. <br /></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #00bf00;">REUNIDOS</span></strong> <br /><br />De una parte <strong>Don Juli&aacute;n &Aacute;lvarez Ortega </strong>como portavoz y candidato a la presidencia de la Junta de Andaluc&iacute;a por la COALICI&Oacute;N ANDALUCISTA <br /><br />De otra parte <strong>Don Antonio Luis Calder&oacute;n D&iacute;az</strong>, Coordinador General de LIBERACI&Oacute;N ANDALUZA <br /><br /><span style="color: #00bf00;"><strong>EXPRESAN</strong></span> <br /><br />Que ambas partes tienen una voluntad compartida e inequ&iacute;voca de unidad y de renovaci&oacute;n del nacionalismo andaluz, para lo que pretenden conformar conjuntamente un bloque social de progreso en Andaluc&iacute;a que sea capaz de construir una alternativa a la pinza conservadora formada por el r&eacute;gimen clientelar del PSOE y la oposici&oacute;n reaccionaria de PP, y que como primer paso de este proyecto irreversible, <br /><br /><span style="color: #00bf00;"><strong>ACUERDAN</strong></span> <br /><br />Aprobar el <strong>PACTO DE ADHESI&Oacute;N </strong>para concurrir de manera conjunta a las pr&oacute;ximas elecciones auton&oacute;micas y generales, y para coordinar una pol&iacute;tica com&uacute;n, pacto que se articula de conformidad con las siguientes <br /><br /><span style="color: #00bf00;"><strong>NORMAS</strong></span> <br /><br /><strong>PRIMERA.- </strong>LIBERACI&Oacute;N ANDALUZA se adhiere a la COALICI&Oacute;N ANDALUCISTA constituida inicialmente por el PARTIDO ANDALUCISTA y el PSA cuyo protocolo de constituci&oacute;n se firm&oacute; el 26 de noviembre de dos mil siete. <br /><br /><strong>SEGUNDA</strong>.-La COALICI&Oacute;N ANDALUCISTA integrar&aacute; en sus &oacute;rganos a representantes de este colectivo en los t&eacute;rminos que de mutuo acuerdo se alcancen. <br /><br /><strong>TERCERA</strong>.- La Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista se compromete mediante este pacto y durante la duraci&oacute;n del mismo a prestar tareas de asesoramiento dentro del &aacute;mbito andaluz para unificar la acci&oacute;n pol&iacute;tica de ambos partidos, de conformidad con el acuerdo program&aacute;tico &ldquo;UNIDOS POR ANDALUC&Iacute;A&rdquo; que se adjunta a este documento. <br /><br /><strong>CUARTA</strong>.- Que la Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista comparte con Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza: <br /><br />- </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #00bf00;">Que Andaluc&iacute;a es una Naci&oacute;n con una historia y un pueblo milenario <br />- Que dentro de la cultura andaluza la andalus&iacute; es una parte importante de la misma <br />- Que reconocemos al pueblo andaluz que se extiende fuera de los l&iacute;mites territoriales actuales de Andaluc&iacute;a y expl&iacute;citamente a andalus&iacute;es y moriscos de la Di&aacute;spora como parte de la Historia del pueblo andaluz</span>. <br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-size: medium;">JULI&Aacute;N &Aacute;LVAREZ ORTEGA</span></span></strong> <br /><strong>Portavoz y Candidato a la <br />Presidencia</strong> de La Junta de <br />Andaluc&iacute;a <br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #00bf00;">ANTONIO LUIS CALDERON DIAZ</span></strong> <br /></span><strong>Coordinador General de <br />Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza<br style="clear: both;" /></strong></span></p>]]></description>            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:15:57 +0100</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Entrevista a Antonio Calderón, coordinador de Liberación Andaluza</title>            <link>http://liberacionandaluza.blogcindario.com/2008/02/00082-entrevista-a-antonio-calderon-coordinador-de-liberacion-andaluza.html</link>            <description><![CDATA[<p class="bodytext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><img border="0" height="137" src="http://fotos.miarroba.com/fotos/6/7/67a4a30a.jpg" style="border: 0; float: left; margin: 6px;" width="181" />"Para que el nacionalismo andaluz pueda tener futuro, a medio o largo plazo, debemos ser capaces, entre todos, de cambiar la din&aacute;mica actual, de confrontaci&oacute;n y personalismos, que al d&iacute;a de hoy, solo nos ha llevado a la marginalidad y a que nadie crea en nosotros." </strong></span><br /></span></p><p class="bodytext" style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a class="null" href="http://www.diariolatorre.es/index.php?id=39&amp;tx_ttnews[swords]=antonio%20calderon&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=5229&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=109&amp;cHash=f792e9e5be">Fuente: Diario La Torre<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Antonio Calder&oacute;n, (El Palo, M&aacute;laga, 1952), es Coordinador General de Liberaci&oacute;n Andaluza</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;">, un partido nacionalista de izquierdas, que planteaba hace treinta a&ntilde;os reivindicaciones que el nuevo Estatuto ha recogido en 2007. Ide&oacute;logo de tesis &ldquo;soberanistas&rdquo; como dice &eacute;l, pero siempre con la no violencia y el di&aacute;logo por delante, es uno de los pocos que han seguido fieles al andalucismo vi&eacute;ndolo subir y bajar constantemente desde 1977. </span></p><p class="bodytext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Como voz acreditada del nacionalismo, le entrevistamos sobre la coalici&oacute;n electoral que acaban de crear PA y PSA. </span></p><p class="bodytext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Diariolatorre.es: &iquest;C&oacute;mo ve la Coalici&oacute;n Andalucista que han formado PA y PSA?. <br /></span>Antonio Calder&oacute;n:</strong> En principio es algo necesario para la propia supervivencia, tanto institucional, como organizativa, de ambas formaciones. Dicho esto, habria que decir, que Andaluc&iacute;a y los andaluces, necesitan tener voz propia en las instituciones Andaluzas, con especial hincapi&eacute; en el Parlamento andaluz, una voz de obediencia andaluza, por ello es importante, tambien, esta uni&oacute;n. </span></p><p class="bodytext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Dlt.es: &iquest;Cree que ser&aacute; distinta o mejor a otros pactos o coaliciones anteriores como Poder Andaluz?.</span></strong> <br /><strong>AC:</strong> Si la uni&oacute;n que nos plantean PA-PSA, no tiene altura de miras,&nbsp;&nbsp;y por tanto, no intentan&nbsp; integrar a todos los sectores&nbsp; andalucistas y nacionalistas (<strong>Asamblea de Andaluc&iacute;a,&nbsp;Foro Andaluz, Jaleo, Naci&oacute;n Andaluza, Convergencia Andaluza, Lib