(11-03-2024, 08:55 AM)Maxmars Wrote: In the end, it's usually the people that do the actual work, and the media that 'tells the stories' of how 'the government' saved us all. Just check the history books.
Things are not like that in Portugal and Spain, as the media is more varied, so while some may support the government, none goes as far as saying they saved they day.
On the ground, the king and queen of Spain, along with the prime minister (or government president, as they call it in Spain) and the president of the autonomous region of Valencia, visited the area and were received with shouts of "murderers" and people threw mud at them.
All the Spanish media is talking about and none are saying the government is right.
Edited to add that, according to Wikipedia, Valencia has had up to 75 floods up to the big flood of 1957, that was caused by the some type of event as this one, so it's not something they were not expecting.
Also, a meteorologist warned about that possibility four days before, but people (mostly those that think that global warming/climate change is not real) called him an alarmist and ignored him.
