Musk, Spain Is Calling You

Spain is going through what is, most probably, the worst natural tragedy in its history. While I write these lines, there are more than 200 dead and between 2,000 and 3,000 missing people, possibly a good deal more, many of which will end up adding to the list of the deceased, after the violent floods suffered by the eastern regions of Spain last Tuesday.

Four days after the tragedy, the social-communist government of Spain continues to offer minimal aid to the rescue efforts, under the pretext that it is the Valencian regional government that must solve the problem; as you might imagine, the Valencian regional government is led by the center-right PP, and President Sanchez does not care about abandoning thousands of Spaniards to their fate if he can make political winnings out of the tragedy and blame the PP for any inefficiencies. This is the desperate situation of Spain in the hands of a sectarian madman.

Meanwhile, immediately, civil society began organizing itself regardless of a political elite that is not up to the task. Thousands of volunteers have organized delivery, via trucks from all over the country, of food, water and supplies, and thousands of Spaniards are arriving on foot to the most affected areas (road infrastructure has been destroyed). While politicians squabble over whose fault it is, while the government has incomprehensibly forbidden the army from going to Valencia to help for four days, ordinary people on the street are dipping their hands into the tons of mud to rescue bodies and clean streets.

The fatality figures are set to rise, as bodies are expected to be found inside the hundreds of cars still piled up on street corners in the worst affected towns, as well as in all the multi-storey car parks that have been completely flooded, or under the rubble of shopping malls that have totally or partially collapsed.

Although the epicenter of the tragedy is about 10 kilometers from Spain’s third largest city, Valencia, much of the area has been without electricity for four days, and the water is contaminated by a mixture of sewage and other pollutants. With no water, no electricity and no Internet, hundreds of users who are organizing themselves through Twitter to get food, water and blankets to the affected, have also asked Elon Musk to send and activate Starlink resources to support communications between emergency services and the population.

The incompetence and psychopathy of the Spanish Government has reached such a point that they have even rejected international aid from the EU, or the transfer of thousands of firefighters offered by France. “For the moment there is no need,” Government sources have said.

Meanwhile, four days after the floods everything is still destroyed, there are still children and elderly people surviving on rooftops, and people living with corpses that have begun to decompose because they are not allowed to touch the bodies until the forensic experts come. If no one helps, with the hundreds of corpses under the rubble, the next tragedy will be a public health one.

The gap between politicians and citizens can not be wider. The lunatic president of Spain, after three days of doing nothing, has held a press conference this Saturday to say that “if Valencia needs help, let them ask for it,” in an effort to insist on the idea that the regional government is to blame for the chaos. This is unheard of in all the history of the worst natural disasters over the last century. The President of the Government washes his hands like Pilate. When all this is over, we will settle the score.

In the meantime, and before it is too late, and despite being busy in the run-up to the U.S. elections, I am convinced that Musk will heed the Spanish call for help, as he has done in other major catastrophes.

On the other hand, I appeal to my dear readers: Caritas (https://www.caritas.es/), the charity organization of the Catholic Church, is collecting donations to help the thousands of families who have lost everything in the floods. Thank you on behalf of all Spaniards for your help, your prayers, and your love.

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