Protesters occupy Caja Madrid bank in Barcelona. Demotix/Lino De Vallier. All rights reserved.
In December 2013, the Spanish media and its citizens learned about the content of around 8000 e-mails sent from Caja Madrid corporate accounts from 2000 - 2009, regarding the actions of Caja Madrid’s former president, Miguel Blesa. This has led so far to over a 100 bankers, politicians from all the main political parties and trade union leaders being brought to trial. The scandal exposed the attempt not only to buy off individual loyalties, but the allegiance of political parties, trade unions, and ultimately the government and the opposition. The e-mails tell us something else as well. We all knew that Spain's was never a 'crisis', it was a scam. Xnet is republishing these e-mails today so that they are available to Spanish and all other concerned citizens, alongside the story of Blesa’s e-mails so far.
It is frustrating to see how this sort of disclosure can be manipulated. So we are going to tell it ourselves. When we say 'we', we do not mean only those who have enabled Blesa's e-mails to come to light or those of us who are driving the Bankia case and watching how new advances are being made every day; we also refer to citizens who have contributed to this story in some way or who have suffered the consequences of these State scams, such as the preferred shares and Bankia's IPO.
