Cuban Assaulted in Pamplona for Carrying the Flag of Spain | Age of Darkness: Racism & Ethnocentrism

🐂 This disgraceful act took place a few weeks ago.

💭 Pamplona, the capital of Navarra, is by far the largest and most noteworthy city of the area. It hosts one of the world’s biggest parties, the festival of San Fermín, where the exhilarating “Running of the Bulls” takes place.
Pamplona certainly owes some of its fame to its adopted son and one of my favorite writers, Ernest Hemingway, who spent a considerable amount of time in Navarra during the Spanish Civil War and was a big fan of the San Fermín Festival. Hemingway wrote about the festival and the “Running of the Bulls” (“Encierro” in Spanish) in his book, “The Sun Also Rises.”

This region in northern Spain is part of the greater Basque country, Basque nationalists would say -- but local residents beg to differ.