Portal de Caravaca de la Cruz
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Throughout that year, the head of our young friend Kato only around an idea, go back to Caravaca.
Its color, its smell, its people had so captivated that he longed to return to that beautiful town, and with his savings and hopefully settle there for some time.
I had a good command of Spanish, as well as an Oriental may have, and had studied history and sociology at the University of Tokyo.
If that would!, Study the history and customs of those nations.
He was determined.
In the spring of two thousand and twenty Kato returned to Caravaca.
The first thing we did was rent a house in the Cuesta de la Cruz, and after a visit to the places you on those long sleepless nights he had dreamed of going back, and once enjoyed there, breathed, smelled, touched and even , went decisively towards the "House of Culture".
Once there he began to work, began to consult books, and old newspaper clippings.
So the next few weeks elapsed from our friend in the Holy City: morning strolls by Fuentes del Marqués, good food, not a few nice chats with the locals, and long hours in the library.
One morning I made a discovery that drew attention to how, in an old and corroded newspaper found an article which spoke of an agency called "Jubilee Caravaca", attracted by that institution questioned the librarian in order to provide information about it, but hearing those words, the officer of the library changed her expression, cheerful, extroverted tone moved in Osco, and impertinent.
During the following days Kato, began to ask those who until then had acted as friendly and affable neighbors, but one by one, without exception, were repeating the gesture of the librarian.
How strange!, Why nobody wanted to talk about what a day called "Jubilee Caravaca"?.
This caused Kato, precisely the opposite effect and as a good historian is to study in depth the issue, and to discover what had happened to this strange institution.
She locked herself in the library and doing an exhaustive study of periodicals, collected copies of the daily northwestern year 2010, 11, and 12 as well as regional press articles, the Truth and the opinion of the same dates and speak on the matter.
That being disappeared in early 2012, instead it was a consortium formed by three legs to say, City Hall, Brotherhood and Autonomous Region in front of which a person was placed on the rope of the party in power.
Focusing on Jubilee Caravaca, Kato found that in mid-2011 this institution was a ruin, a ballast, and a real headache for the city of Caravaca, the situation was very simple there was no money to meet payroll of nearly forty workers had on staff, but not only this but the Brotherhood debt amounted to more than 200,000 euros.
Kato, embedded in the topic, followed by flipping one after another in the press reports which referred to that entity.
Discovered with astonishment that "Jubilee Caravaca" had been the goose that lays the golden eggs, which both the Autonomous Community and the City had injected billions amounts of money, without going any further compiled a 2011 article in which it was recognized by the Consistory itself than in the Autonomous Region and the City Council to grant-back 1.1 million euros, but not only that, our friend from the East also discovered that another source of income of the entity were visits to museums by the pilgrims paid 3 euros per person.
Delving into the issue a ruling Kato found at the same triumphalist article in a newspaper of regional circulation which facilitated data that Kato will be of great interest, almost one and a half million pilgrims had led to their destinations Holy City in 2010, of which 184,721 had visited the museums managed by the Jubilee Caravaca (A 3 euros per person ...)
The leaders of this society, presumably related to the ruling party, a fact that Kato could not contrast, revenues were soaring, as opposed to the modest payroll of employees of that entity, there could come the first problem.
But not only, because even with this, and given the substantial money involved, only from the point of view of a disastrous management can understand what happened.
Is the crisis?, Was the excuse used by political leaders and responsible, Kato is convinced that not only the income from the visit to the museums and the lucrative returns through the sale of souvenirs that this company had a turnover during the year 2010 would have been enough to meet payrolls of workers for some years.
Finally, opposition groups are tired of asking for an external audit to clarify the accounts of the entity, but after 8 years spent those summoned to sleep the sleep of the righteous.
At this point, no local Kato understood why he wanted to talk about it, and frowned when he remembered that he had already become a painful and sad history of the city.
Source: UPyD Caravaca de la Cruz
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