New El Mundo editor-in-chief: easy Nazi metaphors

Barcelona"Some have deduced that I tried to identify nationalist leaders with the Nazis, which is not true", wrote Pedro García Cuartango on May 13, 2013. Let´s take a look. "[Hitler minister] Wilhem Frick was directly responsible for all decrees and laws that were drafted to introduce Nazism into public life. He believed that legal regulations had to be subject to the will of the Führer. [...] This is exactly the same idea that Núria de Gispert (1) supports" (May 11, 2013).

Here’s another: "The education bill being discussed in the Catalan parliament is a true copy of the Gentile reform, which in 1923 tried to make Italian schools a propaganda instrument for the new fascist state" (March 21, 2009). After that article, he continued with his peculiar way of not identifying Catalan nationalists with totalitarianism. "[Nazi ideologue] Carl Schmitt despised parliamentarianism and the liberal state, which were brakes on the construction of a great Germany. And he supported war as a means of reaffirming the nation, a latent idea in the reports by the Catalan Council (Advisor for the National Transition) presided over by [Carles] Viver" (July 19, 2014).

And another: "[The September 27th elections were] elections in which the people did not vote on their political options, but rather on their identity. [...] This seems to me a totalitarian behavior, because totalitarianism is nothing more than imposing a collective identity on individuals, which makes them into mere anonymous extras in the State. In Germany it was not possible to be both a Jew and a German at the same time" (September 28, 2015).

They have appointed Pedro García Cuartango as the new director of El Mundo. But you can see that he is hardly a new director for El Mundo (2).

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(1) N.T. At the time Núria de Gispert was the Speaker of the Catalan parliament.

(2) N.T. Spanish daily El Mundo has always held strong views against Catalan independence.