JEROME MERINO (n. Villoviado, 1769 - m. Alençon, 1844)
Much is being talked about as a result of the war in Iraq on the difference between popular and guerrilla insurgency or terrorism. In our country we have to illustrate the situation happened in our war of independence (1808-1814) against French invaders. In both cases, people stand up against the foreign invader, even though, in theory, the invasion meant the imposition of a system that will bring more freedom. In both cases the army has to bring alleged freedom is conducted in a brutal manner, which makes people not see them as liberators and, finally, in both cases are the invaded country's religious head of the insurgency in many places . In Spain were also the same guerrilla priests who populate our national epic, especially after try by every means to stifle the desire for freedom that after the French invasion (and it seems rather in spite of it) had begun to sprout from the English. One of the most famous clerics Merino guerrillas was the priest.
son of peasant proprietors Villoviado in Burgos town, Merino studied for the priesthood in Burgos and returned to his village to take its place as pastor. In 1808 the French troops who were passing by, apparently vejaron him (although I have not been able to find in what way, the truth) and jailed. Later she managed to escape and, with a nephew and a few parishioners, burst into the hills and founded a guerrilla group, known then as "Crusade items, more famous at the time. It seems that the only military knowledge he had came to him from reading the classics, yet they became one of the worst thorns in French logistics lines between Burgos and Valladolid, to the point that he became interested in the same Napoleon. In 1810, following the action of Quintanar del Puente in which a large convoy was headed to Ciudad Real was appointed colonel by the Supreme Board, but had to retire to the Sierra de Quintanar harassed by the French. Shortly afterwards he was promoted again, to brigadier, to eliminate a large group of French Barbadillo. Also later managed to capture an entire battalion of Polish, and carried out many actions with your group or together with others such as the Empecinado with great success, so when the war was general and military governor of Burgos. Unfortunately during the conflict Merino also noted for his cruelty to the French prisoners, starring acts such as the French squad of twenty for each member of the board of Soria that the invaders were killed in 1812 that, although they were often response to the savagery of enemy, seem difficult to justify today. Presumably the French way of doing this so different from their conventional war would seem terrorism and stories that are told about the cruelty of guerrilla makes us think about the images of Western hostages seen on TV not long ago. After the war
Fernando VII appointed him canon of Palencia, although it seems that did not last long in office for discussions with their peers. However, in 1820 came to lie down the mountain, this time to defend absolutism against liberals who had come to enforce the Constitution of Cadiz the monarch. During the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823) led guerrilla gangs in different parts of Castile, and in 1823 his forces formed the vanguard of curiously French army that invaded Spain this time to reintroduce absolutism, standing out against his fellow liberals for the same atrocities that were committed against Napoleon's soldiers, and having to face in the battlefield to old friends, as Determined.
After the death of Fernando VII in 1833, Murphy joined forces with Carlos María Isidro suitor , defended by the absolutists, against liberals who had sided with the Queen Regent Maria Cristina in what was the Carlist War . In it, and as Commander in Chief of Castilla and Extremadura, participated in Bilbao sites and Morella. Defeated the Carlist and peace that brought Vergara agreement in 1839, was forced into exile in France, he had been the scourge of liberals and pro-French, ending his days in a convent in Alençon in 1844. The story of the priest
Merino and unconditional control of the Church against all that progress and would involve a greater degree of freedom in Spain during the nineteenth century, can serve as a guide to see when it can assume happen when the Americans leave Iraq. This coupled with the latest developments does not suggest a scenario of greater freedom in the short term, but rather the opposite. Although it is possible that the seed of liberty has been planted, most likely have to be the Iraqis themselves those who finally reach their own way and without external imposition. Solo is expected to be faster and more peacefully than in Spain.
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