Madrid (EFE) hate speech.”
“We rebel against those who use hate as a weapon. The utopia we seek cannot be realized from hate. It is the antithesis of what we are”, explained the Vallecas Seafaring Brotherhood, organizer of the event, which this year has reached its 41st edition on its social networks.
It is a party that has gone through the water in which every year hundreds of people gather to, in addition to making their demands known, enjoy a day with which to face the high summer temperatures.
Every year this day brings together new participants and veterans, such as Marcos, who has enjoyed the Naval Battle since he was five years old and who continues to come to a party of “enjoyment and good vibes,” the Vallecano explained to EFE.
This is also the case of Rubén, who has been going to the neighborhood to get wet “and to get others wet” for many years, and who points out that a party like this serves “so that more people find out about reality and achieve public health and social improvements ”.
Just minutes after the proclamation and the departure of the brass bands and batucadas, Diego, who after ten years in Madrid “finally” enjoys the battle, has already been thrown a bucket of water from a building, although he assures that he expected “finish very wet”.
One more year Vallecas has been flooded again, thus reviving a tradition that began when in 1982, according to the organizers, a group of young people came up with the idea of fighting the heat using water from the hydrants during the Fiestas del Carmen .