Fraga

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Fraga was a fascist politician whose coup caused the Galician War in 1987. Fraga won power in 1990 and set up a fascist regime with his fascist party, Falanxe Galego as the sole legal party in Galicia. He ruled with an iron fist for 15 years until his death on 17th April 2005, in Santiago de Compostela. He is more popularly known as Don Manuel Fraga, or Don Fraga to his hard line supporters.

[[1]] President Fraga

Contents 1 Early Life and Pre-Galicia Days 2 Rise To Power 3 El Fragismo 4 Overview 5 Famous Quotes

[edit] Early Life and Pre-Galicia Days

Fraga was born in Vilalba on 23rd November 1922, in the province of Lugo. When the civil war erupted, Fraga was only 14 years old and was seperated from his family. He never found them again, and during this time he found comfort in the arms of La Falange Espanola, the fascist party. He had found a new family and soon began to take up their fascist ideology as his own. In 1939, when General Franco won the war, Fraga stayed with his Falange brothers and became part of the eventual Franco government in 1945. In that same year he married Carmen Estevez, in Vigo.

[[2]] Fraga's wedding to Carmen Estevez

His political career began to grow to further heights until 1975, when Franco died. Fraga choose to remain in Madrid, but when Galicia became a seperate nation only six years later, he immediatly returned to take up a relevant political height in his native land.

[[3]] Fraga leaves Madrid behind

[edit] Rise To Power

Although Fraga was very charismatic, he never really received as much popularity as he thought he would get. The Galician people were happy with their current government The PSDG. The Galician Socialist Party. However Fraga was determined to win power and so began to conspire against the Galician government with fellow fascist politicians. During this time, he became ever distant from his wife and she ran away from him. Fraga covered this scandal up, as he tried to win over more people to follow him and make him president. However despite rising support, Fraga lost the next election against Fernando Ignacio Laxe, a socialist who replaced the late president Xerado Albor.

[[4]] Fraga and Laxe during a televised debate

Fraga became increasingly desperate for power and so refounded the Falange party that had been dormant for the past 15 years. However, Fraga knew if he kept the name in Castellano he would lose the heavy backing and funding from the Galician nationalists, so he deicded to rename it in Galicia, La Falanxe Galego and thus keeping the nationalists on good terms. Within three months of preparation, Fraga rung up his fellow fascist politicians to throw a coup. However Fraga misjudged the amount of support Laxe's government still retained in Galicia and what was meant to be a quick coup, turned into a bloody and terrible war. Fraga and the Falanxe prepared themselves for a long and expensive war. see The Galician War for details.

Once in power, Fraga changed the Galician Constitution of 1981 and thus abolished elections and all political freedoms. He declared himself as President of Xunta de Galicia on 5th May 1990 and officially made La Falanxe Galego the sole legal party of Galicia in 1991.

[[5]] Fraga changes the constitution

[edit] El Fragismo

Fraga's first major act as president was to change the constitution, and then to change the Galician Police Force in October 1991. Instead of the police officers swearing allegiance to Galicia, they instead swore allegaiance to Fraga and his regime. They became known as The Fraga Guard and patrolled the streets in groups armed with submachine guns. The Fraga Guard struck terror into the hearts of the Galician people. Fraga also made use of the mass Falanxist propoganda machine, making himself a sort of cult of personality leader, much like that of Che Guevara. Gigantic posters and sometimes even flags were put up in every single major Galician city, reading "Obey Fraga". Fraga's attention then turned to Galician education, and changed the cirriculum. Girls would learn about mothering and cooking, where as the boys would learn to work and physical education. Fraga made it compulsory for every school in Galicia to keep a potrait of himself in each and every classroom, for the children to salute every morning. Religious Education became compulsory, but only the study of Roman Catholicism.

Although firmly secure in his role as fascist dictator of Galicia, Fraga did not go without critism from within the Falanxe. The fascist war hero Antonio Machín, began to heavily critise Fraga's economic policy which in effect had been bankrupting the nation, slowly draining the money out of the economy and into Fraga's own back pocket. In a television interview in March 1993, Machín made a statement declaring himself a Falanxista but not a "Fragista". Fraga became infurated with this renegade politician and ordered his immediate execution. On 3rd April 1993, Machín was publically executed on a garrotte in the Plaza de Santiago. This execution began to cause tension between the Falanxe and Fraga.

In 1995, an attempt was made on Fraga's life by rebels but it failed and the would be killers where executed publically. Under the Fraga regime, life was hard for the Galicians, as unemployment and poverty soared to an all time high. Relations between Fraga and the Falanxe continued to strain further into tension.

Within Galicia, travel became very limited and controlled. In 1994, Fraga placed laws that made every Galician carry an Identification Card with them at all times, and this card would have to be shown upon travelling to a different Galician province. Even if a Galician was not travelling to a different province, they still had to keep their ID card with them at all times. Fraga was obsessed with controlling travel within Galicia. He was afraid that if Galicians could travel freely, the next thing they might want to do is speak freely!

Fraga continued his dictatorial regime which became widely known as El Fragismo, which with every passing day grew more repressive and brutal. Although he had already changed the cirriculum, he was determined that children should not escape his influence and that they should all love him. He ordered the construction of an animated cartoon series called La Adventura de Frijolito. The shows plot followed a little boy called Frijolito who followed the president and his party and became widely popular with everyone in his village. It was meant to entice children into believing the same ideology of the Falanxe. The series ended with the murder of the now teen Frijolito, after he tried to save a girl from a bunch of communists, who in turn threw him from a bridge to his death. Thus illustrating the evil of communism. The star of the show, Luis Alfonso Borbujas met with Fraga in Santiago de Compostela after the first series was released in 1996.

[[6]] Fraga meets Frijolito star

Fraga went unquestioned in his seat of power, apart from the tensions that ran between himself and the Falanxe party. However all their differences were forgotten for the biggest party Galicia had ever seen, the coming of a new millenium. On New Years Eve 1999, The Fraga Guard patrolled the streets of every main city, and were out in full force along with the Falanxistas (Falanxe's parlimantary militia). On the Christmas Eve of 1999, Fraga made a his annual Christams speech to the nation but this one was diferent from the others. Fraga, upon making his speech he reminded the Galician people that violence during the Millenium Party would not be tolerated and all those caught in violation of the law would be dealt with.

[[7]] Fraga warns off violence before the Millenium Party

The following years proved to be the beginning of the end for Fraga's regime and indeed Falanxism. In 2002, when a huge oil tanker called the prestige sunk off the Galician coast, and contaminated the Galician beaches with oil, Fraga seemed unwilling to act and he even went as far to say "Nature is not poltical nor does it do me any favours, So I ask myself why do the people bother" he was reffering to the massive cleanup operation that the Galician people had began. They were not being paid for it, they just respected and loved their beautiful land, something that Fraga could not understand. This would ultimatly prove fatal, as many Galicians began to hate their president and government. So by the summer of 2002, a band of Galician rebels had taken up arms against Fraga and the Falanxe government.

[[8]] Fraga does not act after the Prestige disaster

The rebellion continued to grow acroos Galicia, and was dubbed by many as The Second Galician War. However Fraga refused to back down or even loosen the reins on his dictatorship, instead he ordered the execution of all who stood against him. He vowed in a speech to rid Galicia of the "filthy" rebel threat "that would see Galicia crumble in the face of terror and intimidation". Fraga made it perfectly clear that he was willing to fight the rebels to the very end, even if it meant he had to pay for another expensive conflict.

[[9]] Fraga makes it clear "Traitors Will Be Garrotted!"

Both The Fraga Guard and Falanxistas took up arms to flush the rebels out, and a massive search operation began. Those who refused Fraga's men entry into their homes, were shot without question. Some were garrotted and others were hung. In an infamous incident, a man was thrown to his death by Falanxistas into Ribeira Valley on 19th July 2004. However the rebellion continued to grow, as tensions between Fraga and his party had reached breaking point. The Falanxe believed that executing innocent men, women and children was beyond even their cruel nature. Whereas Fraga continued to remain stern and stubborn in his belief that all threats to the regime should be snuffed out and dealt with, so instead of panicking and worrying about the high death toll, Fraga instead proposed a toast with a glass of champagne, to his victory and the continuity of the regime.

[[10]] Fraga toasts to the fascist regime

However little did he know his toast counted for nothing. Whilst he left Sunday morning mass on 17th April 2005, in a small church just south of the Xunta de Galicia building in Santiago de Compostela, Fraga was assasinated by unknown persons. It appeared that the assasins had placed two tonnes of high explosives, in a tunnel which was dug underneath the dictator's car. As Fraga approached left the church and approached the car, the assasins prepared their attack. Fraga entered his car, but before the dictaotr could drive off, the assasins triggered the explosives to blow. The force of the explosion sent the car, and Fraga along with it 100 feet into the air, where it fell over the roof of an apartment building and landed on a second floor balcony on the other side.

[[11]] Fraga goes flying!

Within minutes The Fraga Guard and medics were on the scene, upon the arrival of the medics the dictator was pronounced dead at 12:00 on 17th April 2005. Thus ended the long and brutal presidency of Fraga. His funeral occured two days after his assasination and the dictator was buried in his hometown of Vilalba. The funeral was broadcast across Galicia, and earned the highest ratings on Galician radio and televison ever, second to when Fraga ended the war and became dictator 15 years beforehand.

[edit] Overview

And so it was. Fraga had died at the hands of unknown assasins before he could designate a presidential successor. With no clear successor to take up the presidency, the different factions from within the Falanxe began to vie for control of the nation. The Xunta de Galicia became a place of betrayal and secret alliances. Fraga had taken the Galician economy and crippled it heavily, and now that he was dead, the political system also fell into utter chaos.

Attitudes by Galician citizens toward El Fragismo are complex. For many, it was a time of peace. A time where practically all crime became extinct. When It was safe to leave your door unlocked when you went out, and when Galician culture really took off. But for others, the reign of terror at the height of Fraga’s cult of personality remains a bitter memory...and will do for many years to come.

[[12]] A Monument to Fraga still stands tall in La Plaza de Vilalba, the city of his birth.

[edit] Famous Quotes

• "Up With Galicia"
• "Up With The Falanxe"
• "There Are Two Kinds Of Men In This World, Those Who Love And Create And Those Who Hate And Destroy"
• "You Are Really Getting Up My Fucking Nose!"
• "Viva Fraga!"
• "Long Live The Fragisimo!"
• "I Am Responsible To God And History Alone"
• "I Will Impose My Will By Victory And Will Not Enter Into Discussion. We Open Our Arms To All Galicians And Offer Them The

Opportunity Of Helping To Form The Galicia Of Tomorrow Which Will Be A Land Of Justice, Mercy, And Fraternity. The War Is Already Won On The Battlefields As In The Economic, Commercial, Industrial, And Even Social Spheres. I Will Only Agree To End It Militarily. My Troops Will Advance. The Choice For The Enemy Is Fight Or Unconditional Surrender, Nothing Else."

• "Galicians!The War Is Over!"
• "Since When The Hell Do The Public Know What They Want? Thats Why We Have Governemnts. To Decide What The Public Want."
• "You Love Me! You Really Love Me!"
• "Homosexuality Is Nothing More Than A Pathology Of Evil Sin"
• "Sometimes In Life, A Cigar Is More Enjoyable Than A Woman. Firstly Once You Have Had Your Fun In Smoking It, You Can Simply Throw The Cigar Away And It Will Never Come Back For Your Money. Secondly, Cigars Don't Talk Back"
• " Galicians Must Adopt The Falanxist And Religious Virtues Of Discipline And Austerity. All Elements Of Discord Must Be Removed."
• "Without The Officers The Men Can Do Little. They Are Ignorant And Have No Idea Of Navigation. Fuel And Food Are Short. It Is Only A Matter Of Time Until They Finally Surrender To Us."