Editor’s note: This article was first published in June 2011, as news, and its reference to Forbes’ ranking of the richest woman in Spain refers to that time. Rosalía Mera died in August 2013.
The ex-wife of Amancio Ortega, co-founder of Inditex and named by Forbes magazine as Spain’s richest woman, feels like one more of the “indignados” (the “outraged”), and she has said so publicly in the media.
She has stated that she identifies completely with the 15M movement (the protests that began on 15 May 2011 with camps in Spanish squares) and with its demands, and she has defended its actions throughout.
At an event held by the foundation she chairs, the Fundación Paideia, she said that both the people camping out and the rest of the population should be outraged. She stated firmly that she would take part without a doubt, just as she did in the protests against the government over the Prestige oil tanker disaster, where she was seen carrying a flag with the message “Nunca Mais” (“Never again”).
Rosalía Mera acknowledges that Spain has lived through unsustainable levels of corruption.
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