With a great success of participation, yesterday Thursday the Artmadams Hotel in Palma hosted the presentation of the new book of Mateo Canellas Taberner, 40 years of the Catalanist looting of the Balearic Islands, a compilation of the articles that he has been publishing in recent months in OKBALEARES.
The president of the Balearic Civil Society, Take Berga, explained that the act is the beginning of a series of presentations and talks in which topics such as the plunder of Catalonia, the black legend and the lies of the Civil War will be discussed. Berga stated that “although they are diverse and different issues, unfortunately they have a common factor: the misrepresentation and falsification of history for a specific purpose.
Next, the well-known and mediatic Spanish diplomat Innocent Arias presented the book by Cañellas, of which he stated: «Mateo Cañellas opens your eyes. Wide open and several times throughout his book». Arias stated that although “looting and historical misrepresentation are in fashion”, it is a historical constant worldwide. As the most relevant examples, he pointed to the Cuban missile crisis, the sinking of the US battleship Maine and the Katyn massacre.
Focusing on the Catalanization process of the Balearic Islands, highlighted the case of the appropriation of Ramón Llull by Catalanism, the one with the Menorcan surname Ferragut of the first admiral of the American fleet for the promotion of Catalan culture in the United States or that the World Map of You grow Abraham be known as the Catalan Atlas.
For his part, Cañellas began his speech by stating that “in the last four decades, it can be said that the process of Catalanization of the Balearic Islands has been completed by politicians pressured by an intellectual class culturally subservient to Catalonia and with the money of all of us».
The author explained that the Catalanist plunder, in addition to signifying the usurpation of the Majorcan language by the Catalan language, supposes that “Before we were the Kingdom of Mallorca, now we are Les Illes”that “the Lonja, the Cathedral and the Bellver Castle are examples of Catalan Gothic” or that “St. Juniper Mountain it is the Catalan footprint of California ».
For Cañellas, one of the greatest achievements confirmed by the Catalan plunder is the use of the .cat domain by Balearic institutions: uib.cat, palma.cat, illesbalears.cat…
The author stated that the worst is yet to come and that after 40 years of Catalan looting, misrepresentation and falsification of our history, in 2023 the eight centuries of the conquest of Jaime I of Aragon. «What pomp will prepare us to celebrate the supposed Catalan conquest of Majorca and the entry of the Balearic Islands into Catalan identity? Also with the money of all of us », he added.
