“Those men were brave,” the minister said during his speech. “They loved freedom above their own lives,” he continued. “They dreamed of a society of freedoms and values in which freedom, the great principles of equality and fraternity prevailed,” he added. On August 24, 1824 – 200 years ago next month – these liberals were shot “on their knees and behind their backs” and tried, without success, to set the flame of the revolution. Dressed in the mansion of the English Navy, hence their appellative ‘Los Coloraos’, they landed on the beaches of Almería, seeking to promote a national uprising for freedom and the Constitution of 1812, which had been repealed by Fernando VII.

After the act of homage in the plenary hall of the City of Almería, a floral offering has been carried out in the monument to the ‘Martyrs of Freedom’, in the Plaza de la Constitución, and the plaque that recognizes this place as a Place of Memory has been revealed.

The minister has been accompanied by the government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández; the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez; the mayor of Almería, María del Mar Vázquez, and the president of the platform for the Bicentenary of Los Coloraos, Carmen Ravassa, among other authorities.