Bronce para el último juez del Couto Mixto - Calvos de Randín, Ourense, Galcia, España - News Article Locations on Waymarking.com

"A bronze sculpture presides over the atrium of the Church of Santiago de Rubiás (Calvos de Randín) to pay tribute to the last judge that the Couto Mixto had, Delfín Modesto Brandón, until 1864, the date on which it ceased to be an independent republic. The Minister of the Presidency, Méndez Romeu, inaugurated this monument yesterday and took the opportunity to criticize the motion of censure that is planned in Calvos with 'schemes and procedures that violate the law to achieve or that it was not carried out through democratic means.'
The figure of the judges of the Couto Mixto, who administered justice and the government of this enclave until 1864 (the date on which it ceased to be an independent republic), has been immortalized through a bronze sculpture that presides over the atrium of the Church of Santiago de Rubiás and which symbolizes the last judge of this unique enclave, Delfín Modesto Brandón. The Minister of the Presidency, José Luis Méndez Romeu, yesterday inaugurated the statue (weighing approximately 200 kilos) in an event that brought together people from the world of culture and politics, praising the values ??that prevailed in the independent republic. Romeu alluded to the political situation that Calvos is experiencing (where a motion of censure against the socialist councilor is about to be presented) and criticized that 'the use of tricks and procedures that violate the law to achieve spurious success or that were not 'finished by democratic means'.

Furthermore, he insisted that 'it is not admissible to deceive citizens in a democratic society' and recalled the figure of Curros Enríquez, 'the first poet to speak out against a situation of oppression that is vulnerable to an unfair system, paying a high price because he was persecuted. , judicially convicted and dismissed from his position at the Provincial Deputation of Ourense.

The councilor added that 100 years later, 'no one names that Deputation and no one will name in the future anyone who is going to commit a democratic outrage in Calvos de Randín, only for ridicule, and we will all name the honesty of Aquilino Valencia.'

For his part, the mayor of Calvos, Aquilino Valencia, said that the Mixed Couto is an example of 'advanced democracy in which the judges were elected by the poor and where nothing was done without reaching an agreement.' He explained that 'most people today should copy and imitate what they did in that society' (alluding to those who will present the motion of censure) and added that 'this act is an example of the path towards or development that is now being done by others, or that It doesn't matter, they want to interrupt.'

Valencia recalled that in the Couto Mixto 'the documents and objects of value of the administration were put in a chest so that the three corners of the couto had to be keyed and to be opened they had to be secured'. And he reported that there were some privileges, among them 'the cultivation of tobacco without limits while the rest were not monopolized by the State or tinea; or free transit on the roads that the raptors also did not perform or military service. And he details as a curiosity that 'each house could decide whether it belonged to Galiza or Portugal'. Finally, the writer Luis García Mañá gave a brief review of the history of this place, betting on its recovery and projection."

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Type of publication: Newspaper When was the article reported?: 02/10/2014 Publication: La region Article Url: [Web Link] Is Registration Required?: no How widespread was the article reported?: regional News Category: Arts/Culture

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