“Everything happened to me on the train to Madrid, from derailing at five kilometers per hour to catching bronchitis in the middle of August.” This is how the actor from Placentino Chema Trujillo, one of the promoters of a new citizen platform for the improvement of communications in the region, summarizes his long experience with the Extremadura railway, which has begun to take its first steps. They have baptized it as ‘Milana Bonita’, the famous expression that the character of Azarías pronounces in the Mario Camus film ‘Los santos inocentes’, and that has remained in the collective imagination as a symbol of the candor and marginalization of a condemned people for centuries ignorance, backwardness and oblivion.
‘Milana bonita’ aims to be a civic movement, with no ties to any political party. There are public representatives, such as the mayor of the Placentina district of San Gil, Esther Sánchez, and they will accept the collaboration of others who are interested, but only if they enter in a private capacity and without partisan slogans. The platform has its origin in Plasencia, a city historically abused in terms of railway communications, but its vocation is regional and has collaborators from other towns …
