Mr Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General
Dear Sir,
1500 funs from Tenerife travel to the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez in Madrid to see the match between Getafe CF (Spain) and CD Tenerife (Canary Islands), which culminated in the promotion to the Primera División of the Madrid team, there was a fight in part of the stand held by the amaquia blanquiazules.
At the end of the football match hooligans of Getafe ended up throwing chairs against Tenerife’s fans and they had to intervene the security forces, who initiated a police incredible charge against the Tenerife fans to leave the stands. The moment has been captured on video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSviAV-UJA
In 1334 Pope Clemente VI granted The Canary Islands to the Castilian King Luis de España y Cerda. The crown of Castile showed growing interest in these islands for atlantic bases to support expeditions for native American genocide, and them it started the invasion of the bigger islands.
The Castilian invasion and occupation was very hard, because resistance to Spanish colonialism was particulary strong by the Guanches, a tall, burly, brave, warlike and intelligent people that populated the Canary Islands, were very well organized, and don’t finish until 1495 (161 years later).
The Christianization, hispanization and colonization soon caused the original language and culture to destroy. Life was not easy due to severe droughts, and attacks from spanish, portuguese, french, english, dutch, and other pirates.
After the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) the underdevelopment of the islands was notable.
The geostrategic importance of the Canary Islands has been reevaluated since 1975 in light of tripartite agreement on Sahara, the hispano-maroccan treaties, and the entry of Spain into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), through a Referendum celebrated on march 1986 (32th anniversary next year 2018) in which the Canary Islands residents voted against, results not applied yet becouse the Canary Islands has a false autonomy status. The apropiate status is a Territorie to which the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples continues not to apply.
Among the inhabitants of the islands, these issues, which were debated even in the Organization for African Union, have stimulated nationalistic sentiment against Spanish colonialism and support for an anticolonialism approach.
In 1982 the Canary Islands obtained a false autonomous status within Spain (Remember, please, the NATO Referendum in march, 12th, 1986), to deceive the Organization of the United Nations (ONU), and maintain the Spanish military and missionery presence in the country. It’s Spain who offer the most complicated instructive case study in past atrophy and future ambitious. Spanish colonialism control the Canary Islands through military occupation (please, see the linked) and monopoly of the education system, economy, press, radio, and TV.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that 2010 would be an important year for the Special Committee on Decolonization because it marked both the end of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism and the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. “What we need now are creative solutions for the remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories”, said Ban Ki-moon.Thank you very much for your attention and interest.
Movimiento por la Unidad del Pueblo Canario