Yes, I know the following lines seem like a script by Groucho Marx, but you have my word that it’s true. Pictured is Susi the elephant, one of the stars of Barcelona zoo. In 2009, Queen Sofia of Spain wrote a letter to express how worried she was about Susi’s living conditions. Her husband, King Juan Carlos, however, is a well-known hunter and a few weeks ago he was secretly killing elephants in Botswana and taking pictures of himself with a smoking gun beside a dead pachyderm. The press and the public only took notice of the King’s safari trip because he fell and broke his hip. The hunting trip to Africa by the head of the state is just a little annoying when there are more than five million unemployed people in Spain and the county’s economy is struggling to avoid a bailout from the EU and the IMF. To make the story even more absurd, the king happens to be the honorary chairman of the Spanish chapter of the WWF. If I was Susi the elephant, I would run away as fast as I could from this crazy place.
Published in Catalonia Today magazine, May 2012
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