10 months later

It was just over 10 months ago when I caught a plane at Barajas airport (Madrid), carrying a suitcase and a 50 litres backpack. (Who needs anything else to survive during one year in voluntary exile?).

How many things can change in so little time! I've come back and I've found that...

1. "Illegal" immigrants will have no free access to health care anymore. People will Die because of this measure.
   
   
2. Education and Health care systems have suffered a budget cut of 10 billion €.
   
   
3. University tuition fees have increased and many students (one is too many), have had to quit.
   
   
4. Public savings banks have become private banks that, again, ask for -and receive- public money.
   
   
5. A law that considers peaceful civil resistance as "criminal offence against authority" is in process of being approved.
   
   
6. Judge Baltasar Garzón finally stopped people who he "shouldn't" bother. Disqualified for the rest of his career.


7. We got a 100 billion € bailout!
   
   
8. Day after day, about 150 families are evicted from their homes. About 40.000 families since I took that plane in September. (I think this is similar to hearing that every minute 3 football fields are lost in Amazonian jungle: we're simple not able to imagine it.)
   
   
9. Desperate parents beg for money in supermarkets to be able to eat and feed their children. People who feel so embarrased of being in such situation that can't even raise their voices.
   
   
10. Oh, and a policital party supported by a bit more than 1 out of 3 citizens, has got enough power as to govern with "absolute majority" for the next four years.

Welcome home.