This is Sánchez Gordillo, the mayor of a little town in Andalucía called Marinaleda. In August he was part of a crack team of outlaws which swept into the Mercadona supermarket in Ecija and swept out with a dozen trolleys loaded with food to be distributed among the poor. Members of the SAT union (Union of Andalucian Workers) also liberated trolleys full of essential food items from the carrefour supermarket in Arcos de la Frontera. Sánchez insists that he is not the brains behind the attacks and that he did not even enter the stores, merely carrying out 'diversion tactics'. This has not prevented him being hailed as a 'latter day Robin Hood'. More demonstrations and marches are planned throughout Andalucía as part of a campaign of protest against the Massive cuts programme imposed by the Rajoy government.
Mercadona has lodged a complaint with the police adding that it is very conscious that the current economic situation is worrying. Carrefour has agreed to donate twelve trolleys full of food to hungry people in three small towns.
It has been raining for two days. Big smiles from all the Spanish who have not seen the wet stuff since April. Our olives will be plumping up nicely now in time for the 'cosecha' in November. Everyone in town today carries an umbrella, but only Pepe Rojas was wearing a 'mack'. Rainwear is not worth buying here in Alora, but the Morroccan bazaar has sold out of 3€ umbrellas. Green shoots are sprouting up all over the campo and 5 months worth of dog and horse muck is being washed down from the upper square to the lower square, providing a literal illustration of a popular Alora metaphor.
The posters have gone up for the annual ´Day of the Sopas Perotas'
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