Got a Little Grease for my Palm?
Money is very tempting, no matter who you are. And if you are in a job where you handle both power and money, you are likely to fall. As do many politicians in Spain. Every other day we hear of a new "operation" against corruption either nationally, or regionally. There are names that have a whole charge of meaning behind them; Filesa, Rumasa, Banesto, Roldán, GAL, Naseiro, Gescartera, Malaya, Gürtel, Nóos, ERE's falsos, Campeón, Pokémon, Nueva Rumarsa, Bárcenas, Bankia, Tarjetas Black, Púnica, and dozens of others that have been closed, remain open, or have just been opened. And all of them since the Transition and Constitution in 1978. No wonder some of the older people pine for Franco and say there was no corruption back then. There was, it just wasn't allowed to be made public, and now no one wants to turn over a pile of dung to let the smell out. All of the major national and regional political parties have been implicated at one point or another. The latest i...