The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife withdraws the propeller of the Canarias Cruise for breaching the Law of Historical Memory

The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife withdraws the propeller of the Canarias Cruise for breaching the law of historical memory. The cope chain advances that the removal work began at noon this Thursday.

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It is one of the Francoist vestiges indicated in the catalog completed by the Directorate General for Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands in an investigation led by the Professor of Art History Maisa Navarro, where other such as the monument to Los Caídos or the one erected in homage to Franco, which must be completely removed.

The Crucero Canarias was considered by the Spanish Navy as its most famous ship of the 20th century and “the subject of headlines that highlighted its importance in Franco’s victory during the civil war and in several reports in the different NO-DO newscasts, as well as in press campaigns in the Archipelago so that its pieces, after being scrapped, were delivered to the provincial capitals as an exhibition object”.

The catalog of vestiges concludes this section by noting that “it is advisable to definitively remove from public space this representative element of combat actions perpetrated against the civilian population in different parts of the national territory. By agreement of the Plenary of the Island Council, the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has been urged to register the propeller in the registry of vestiges to be removed in compliance with Law 5/2018 since, as of that registration, the City Council of Santa Cruz and the Port Authority are requested to proceed accordingly”.

The Deputy Minister of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Juan Márquez, has celebrated the news on his social networks, where he has indicated that “the Law of Historical Memory is complied with, with moral reparation for the victims of one of the greatest massacres of the civil war, the Desbandá”.