Ángel Matanzo

Ángel Matanzo España (c. 1937 – 2017) was a Spanish butcher and politician, city councillor of Madrid between 1983 and 1995.[1]

Ángel Matanzo
Madrid City Councillor
In office
23 May 1983 – 17 June 1995
Personal details
Bornc. 1937
Madrid
Died5 March 2017
Pozuelo de Alarcón
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyAP (1977–1989)
PP (1989–1995)
PADE (1997–?)
OccupationPolitician, butcher

Biography

Born in Madrid circa 1937,[1][2][3] to a humble family, son of a butcher (father) and a greengrocer (mother),[4] Matanzo managed a butcher's shop.[5][2] A member of People's Alliance since 1977[3] he was elected to the City Council of Madrid for the first time in the 1983 municipal election.[6] Re-elected in the 1987 election, after the 1989 successful motion of no confidence against the then Mayor, Juan Barranco, who was replaced by Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Matanzo became the city councillor responsible for the Centro District. During a controversial rule,[7] he became singularly known by his authoritarian measures;[1] closing down stores and launching razzias against street vending.[8]

Matanzo was sacked from the municipal government board by the Mayor José María Álvarez del Manzano in 1993, after a clash with the Culture's councillor Pedro Ortiz, since Matanzo had decreed the shutting of the Teatro Alfil, as it was the premises where a theatrical play, Cabaret Castizo, was being aired since 5 January. The Eduardo Fuente's play,[9] starred in three characters: a talking bear, an arbutus, and a sheriff (performed by Chete Lera) making the later a parody out of Matanzo.[10][11][12] He was replaced as responsible for the Centro District by María Antonia Suárez.[13] After two years in political ostracism,[14] during which he was degraded to the (unmeaningful) role of "Mayor's provisions consultant",[15] Matanzo left the People's Party in 1995.[4]

Matanzo would then get involved in several political initiatives: he joined the Dr. Alfonso Cabezas's Platform of the Independents of Spain (PIE) in 1995, running first in the PIE list for the May 1995 municipal election.[16] In 1997 he became a member of the national council of the Spanish Democratic Party (PADE), led by the also former PP politician Juan Ramón Calero.[17] He ran again as candidate in the 1999 municipal election, leading the list of the far-right Alianza por la Unidad Nacional, founded by Ricardo Sáenz de Ynestrillas.[16][1]

He died on 5 March 2017 in Pozuelo de Alarcón.[4][6]

Matanzo is mentioned by one of the characters of the Historias del Kronen novel (upon which the 1995 namesake film is based on). The character alludes to the trouble coming up with ways to obtain recreational drugs: "nowadays things are very bleak, particularly since Matanzo is [around]... We are becoming more european by the time..." (ahora que están las cosas muy chungas, sobre todo desde que está el Matanzo... Cada vez somos más europeos).[18]

References
  1. "Matanzo se presenta a la alcaldía por el partido de Ynestrillas". El País. 28 May 1999.
  2. "Quién es quién en en Ayuntamiento (y III)". ABC. Madrid: 42. 26 May 1983.
  3. "La corporación que se despide" (PDF). Villa de Madrid. Informativo Quincenal. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid (184): 7-9. 6–15 May 1991. ISSN 9968-2133.
  4. Carbajo 2017.
  5. Novo 1991, p. 30.
  6. "Muere Ángel Matanzo, exconcejal popular de Madrid al que le tocó dos veces la lotería". El Confidencial. 6 March 2017.
  7. Garcés 2010, p. 108.
  8. Mercado 1992; Carbajo 2017
  9. Vilches de Frutos 1995, p. 464.
  10. Davison 1993; Torres 1993a; Medialdea 2017
  11. "Matanzo precinta mañana el teatro Alfil en plena representación de Cabaret Castizo". ABC.
  12. "Fallece el exconcejal del PP Ángel Matanzo". Madridiario. 6 March 2017.
  13. Torres 1993b.
  14. Otero 1995.
  15. Pozo 1994, p. 64.
  16. Alpuente 1999.
  17. "Muere Ángel Matanzo, exconcejal del PP en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". La Vanguardia.
  18. Smith 2004.

Bibliography
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