A government school guide rewrites the Spanish Reconquista and accuses Don Pelayo of "tax evader"

The executive led by Pedro Sánchez has unleashed a new controversy by including in his school guides of Democratic Memory an interpretation that redefines the historical role of Don Pelayo, a key figure in the beginning of the Spanish Reconquest. According to these guides, elaborated by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, the famous battle of Covadonga was not an epic confrontation against the Muslim forces but a skirmish m…

In its effort to shape the story to attack Franco, the government has wanted to denoise an important figure in the history of Spain: Don Pelayo. In one of the didactic guides that the executive of Pedro Sánchez elaborates for the schools to teach in the classrooms "democratic memory", the ministry headed by Ángel Víctor Torres assures that the battle of Covadonga occurred because of the refusal to pay taxes to the Umayyads, so the government cal…