“My father and my mother, they both worked in the mine. My husband too. When I was 11 years old, I went at four in the morning with the cows, and a murre that weighed 70 kilos. At that time there were no automatic trucks, so as soon as I could I got my license because since I was involved with the cows, I needed to carry them and take them. Here in this town everyone was communist, but when democracy arrived I ran as a councilor for Alianza Popular”, explains without haste but without pause Gloria Terrón Abela, the Thatcherinaas she was affectionately nicknamed during the Transition due to her political inclinations. She speaks to Félix de la Concha (León, 1962), the painter who portrays her with oil on canvas (to the first, in a single session), the interview and at the same time records it.
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