The insular case invented by the English in the Canary Islands

there is match between Tenerife and Las Palmas and that in the Canary Islands is synonymous with a sports party between siblings. A few years ago, it was strange. In the Canary Islands there was a confrontation called the island lawsuit between Gran Canaria and Tenerife for political control over the decisions that later go to the official bulletin of power.

Canarian academic authorities agree that it is “a confrontation in the last centuries between Tenerife and Gran Canaria, especially in the political field and between their ruling classes”. there is a derby between Las Palmas and CD Tenerife.

Englishmen. The origin is in the Cuban War in 1898 and pressures began on the port of Las Palmas where the British capital has control over strategic sectors such as energy (coal) or ship repair generating sales in years as 1852, when free ports were established in the islands, goods worth a million dollars were exported to England of that time, a fortune.

Madrid entrusted the defense of the islands to the Canarian militias themselves, that is, an army very similar to the Swiss in which every islander was obliged to defend the territory in case of foreign invasion. The regular forces in the Canary Islands totaled 2,000 troops. Then the withdrawal of Spain from Cuba The defense of the Canary Islands began to be ordered in anticipation that the British wanted to stage a coup on the islands.

The money. He The conflict on the island has been over for decades and it is hardly seen in soccer, although there are matches of an insular nature on islands such as Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Gomera and Fuerteventura. However, there are arguments for all tastes like that, according to official data, the island of Gran Canaria contributes twice as much as Tenerife to the public treasuryIn particular, in 2020, the province of Las Palmas, of which Gran Canaria accounts for more than 80%, contributed 125% more in Personal Income Tax (IRPF) than Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and , in 2021, 122% more.

So, they encouraged the clash between the canaries. Historian Amós Farrujia Coello remembers that The British economy weighed heavily on the islands in 1898 and, based on this approach, they encouraged conflict between the canaries. to raise the tone of protests against Madrid and financially reward their interests through payroll intermediaries.

He Professor Amos Farrujia Coello indicates that “the participation of English capitalists in insular society weighed so heavily that it fell directly on delicate questions of sovereignty.” In his opinion, “though the brits didn’t even bother to comment on the changes of local politicsIf that’s the case they pressed all their weapons when the decisions made compromise their businesses.”

For this, English capital activates a mechanism: “the strategy of a The change in political sovereignty of the islands was seen as something inconvenient for the English crownbecause it acted as a full economic metropolis with great comfort”. The lawsuit was fueled since 1898 and in 1927 what was a single province was divided into two, Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.