Ernesto Milá
Encyclopedia
Ernesto Milá Rodríguez is a Spanish neo-Nazi
political activist and, according to some sources, CESID
operative.
(Partido Español Nacional Socialista).
As Xavier Casals Meseguer explains in Los Neonazis en España (Editorial Grijalbo, 1995), the PENS
terrorist attacks on the headquarters of El Ciervo (a relatively center-leaning Catholic
journal), theTaller Picasso (1971), Catalan
libraries (such as the Cinc d'Oros, 1971), the Gran enciclopédia catalana (1974) and libraries and public centers in Valencia (1975), among others, were not prosecuted—mainly due to the fact that the Francoist police and the SECED itself, along with a former member of Franco
's bodyguard corps (Luis García Rodríguez, later founder of the neo-Nazi group Estado Nacional Europeo), provided active support for said actions.
Milá then became a member of the Círculo José Antonio in Barcelona, subsequently entering Blas Piñar
's Fuerza Nueva
(1975), from which he was expelled in 1977, mostly on the grounds of his recent civil marriage
; he then joined the Fuerza Nueva
splinter group Frente Nacional de la Juventud founded by Ramón Graells Bofill, which later merged into the Frente de la Juventud.
In June 1980, an illegal gathering dubbed Día de la Patria Española and organized by the Milá on behalf of the Frente de la Juventud, ended with the assault and arson of the Barcelona Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) headquarters. The Barcelona Supreme Court ruled that Milá was the main inductor of the demonstration and sentenced him in absentia
to a two-year prison sentence. This formal indictment forced Milá to flee for France
, where he was investigated in connection with the Copernicus street synagogue
bombing in Paris
, which claimed four lives. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment in La Santé for his use of forged documents. During his time in prison, he wrote an apology letter to Blas Piñar
in which he assured his return to the Catholic faith, as shown in the documents compiled by Piñar himself in Escrito para la historia (Fuerza Nueva Editorial, 2000).
In January 1981, during Milá's absence, more than thirty militants of the Frente de la Juventud were arrested by the police, and accused of terrorist activities, among them a bombing in Madrid
which killed one person and wounded nine others. The party officially dissolved August 29, 1982.
, during his stay in Bolivia
he worked as an adviser (most likely on PSYOPS or plain torture) for the short-lived Cocaine-coup dictatorship
along with infamous neo-fascists such as Stefano delle Chiaie
and war criminal Klaus Barbie
, later returning to Spain in 1983.
Upon his return, he was arrested by the police at the Spanish frontier with Ingram
machine guns in his possession, indicted on firearms and illegal demonstration charges and sentenced to two years in prison.
The February 22, 1983 edition of El País informed of his formal confinement in the Carabanchel
prison, along with that of Rafael Tormo Acosta, after the aforementioned arrest. The April 14 article in El País even qualified Milá's wife's written plea on behalf of her husband as "pathetic".
The October 3, 1985 issue of El País informed of a new arrest, this time in the streets of Barcelona, and his immediate confinement in the Modelo prison, in order to execute his pending sentence for the 1980 incidents in the UCD headquarters.
along with the El Alcázar
director, Antonio Izquierdo. During that time he directed Ediciones Alternativa, which published the first translations of the works of the Italian esoterist and fascist
ideologue Julius Evola
, one of whose career highlights was the Italian translation of the anti-Semitic libel Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In 2000 he became a militant of the umbrella far-right group Democracia Nacional, already a haven for CEDADE
ex-members (such as Christian Ruiz Reguant, Laureano Luna or Joaquín Bochaca) and other Spanish neo-nazis. In 2004 Milà disenfranchised himself from DN after bitter disagreements with its leader, Manuel Canduela.
His attention then turned to Spain 2000, the controversial far-right platform linked to the Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Locales de Alterne or ANELA, Spain's largest pimp syndicate (see Los Amos de la prostitución en España by Joan Cantarero (Ediciones B, 2007) ). Milá was recently appointed as the party's press secretary, and appeared in the election list for the 2008 General Election
, ostensibly an attempt to gain preponderance over other fascist groups in Spain by capitalizing on Milá's extensive history. Milá's presumed relation with the CNI
and its predecessors, albeit not as yet admitted by him, has raised found an outcry in most far-right blogs, especially those of Democracia Nacional and the currently marginal entourage of the once infamous Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas, who had a row with Milá himself although the latter decided not to press charges.
Widely considered the most intellectually ambitious and well-connected of all Spanish neo-fascists who have escaped successful or permanent legal prosecution, Milá is nowadays devoted to "cultural" dissertations in his blog
on Julius Evola
, theosophy
, Esoteric Nazism
, purportedly "mysterious" aspects of History (such Catharism, Freemasonry
and unknown or "intriguing" aspects of Barcelona
or Gaudí
's legacy) and other subjects, most notably surveillance
and security
. He also uses the blog to extend on his particular view of contemporary topics, such as immigration
, as well as to occasionally write film reviews. He has worked jointly with a number of printed and electronic media, with special attention towards esoterism and the occult. His orientation towards these themes has been the object of many a controversy with other journalists He also published in journals such as El Alcázar
and Defensa, Más allá de la ciencia, Año Cero, Próximo Milenio, Nueva Dimensión and Historia y Vida,
some of them also including articles by historic militants of CEDADE
. The information in the articles written by Milá and published in his blog is often inconsistent with the known historical facts (e.g. assuming that it was William the Conqueror, and not Harold Godwinson
, who defeated Harald III of Norway at the Battle of "Stanford" (sic) Bridge
), or punctuated by facts and rumors of which he does seldom presents a proof, such as the different conspiracies whose confluence led to the 1981 coup attempt in Spain
.
He was the chief editor of the Saber Más magazine, distributed in 1997 with the El Mundo
edition in Catalunya—the relation between mainstream, purportedly center-right communication media such as El Mundo, Telemadrid
, ABC
or the COPE
with former or rumoured neo-Nazi activists has long been a matter of controversy.
He then became chief editor for Nuevos Horizontes, directed by notorious "occultist" Sebastià d'Arbó, and then for the (In)Seguridad magazine. He is currently the editor of the Revista IdentidaD.
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....
political activist and, according to some sources, CESID
CeSID
The Centre for Free Elections and Democracy is a non-governmental, non-profit organization in the Republic of Serbia founded in 1997. The organization deals with election monitoring in Serbia and the parallel counting up of the votes...
operative.
Early years
Milá began as one of the members of the fringe right-wing extremist groups (usually named incontrolados, "uncontrolled elements") who rallied against leftist or pro-democratic meetings during late Francoism, usually assuming the role of unofficial mob breakers and violent counter-rioters. His political affiliation began in the relatively short-lived neonazi group PENSPens
Pens may refer to:* plural of pen, Fountain pens - writing instruments* Pens * a nickname for the Pittsburgh PenguinsPENS may refer to:* Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, commonly referred to as electroacupuncture...
(Partido Español Nacional Socialista).
As Xavier Casals Meseguer explains in Los Neonazis en España (Editorial Grijalbo, 1995), the PENS
Pens
Pens may refer to:* plural of pen, Fountain pens - writing instruments* Pens * a nickname for the Pittsburgh PenguinsPENS may refer to:* Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, commonly referred to as electroacupuncture...
terrorist attacks on the headquarters of El Ciervo (a relatively center-leaning Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
journal), theTaller Picasso (1971), Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
libraries (such as the Cinc d'Oros, 1971), the Gran enciclopédia catalana (1974) and libraries and public centers in Valencia (1975), among others, were not prosecuted—mainly due to the fact that the Francoist police and the SECED itself, along with a former member of Franco
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
's bodyguard corps (Luis García Rodríguez, later founder of the neo-Nazi group Estado Nacional Europeo), provided active support for said actions.
Milá then became a member of the Círculo José Antonio in Barcelona, subsequently entering Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar is a Spanish politician. He has had connections with Catholic organizations; directed the Institute of Spanish Culture and served as deputy in the Cortes and a councillor of the Movimiento Nacional.In the 1960s, Blas Piñar was in charge of the Institute of Spanish Culture that was...
's Fuerza Nueva
Fuerza Nueva
New Force was the name of a succession of far-right political parties in Spain founded by Blas Piñar, the son of one of the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo and director of the Institute of Hispanic Culture during the Francoist period...
(1975), from which he was expelled in 1977, mostly on the grounds of his recent civil marriage
Civil marriage
Civil marriage is marriage performed by a government official and not a religious organization.-History:Every country maintaining a population registry of its residents keeps track of marital status, and most countries believe that it is their responsibility to register married couples. Most...
; he then joined the Fuerza Nueva
Fuerza Nueva
New Force was the name of a succession of far-right political parties in Spain founded by Blas Piñar, the son of one of the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo and director of the Institute of Hispanic Culture during the Francoist period...
splinter group Frente Nacional de la Juventud founded by Ramón Graells Bofill, which later merged into the Frente de la Juventud.
In June 1980, an illegal gathering dubbed Día de la Patria Española and organized by the Milá on behalf of the Frente de la Juventud, ended with the assault and arson of the Barcelona Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) headquarters. The Barcelona Supreme Court ruled that Milá was the main inductor of the demonstration and sentenced him in absentia
In absentia
In absentia is Latin for "in the absence". In legal use, it usually means a trial at which the defendant is not physically present. The phrase is not ordinarily a mere observation, but suggests recognition of violation to a defendant's right to be present in court proceedings in a criminal trial.In...
to a two-year prison sentence. This formal indictment forced Milá to flee for France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where he was investigated in connection with the Copernicus street synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
bombing in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, which claimed four lives. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment in La Santé for his use of forged documents. During his time in prison, he wrote an apology letter to Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar is a Spanish politician. He has had connections with Catholic organizations; directed the Institute of Spanish Culture and served as deputy in the Cortes and a councillor of the Movimiento Nacional.In the 1960s, Blas Piñar was in charge of the Institute of Spanish Culture that was...
in which he assured his return to the Catholic faith, as shown in the documents compiled by Piñar himself in Escrito para la historia (Fuerza Nueva Editorial, 2000).
In January 1981, during Milá's absence, more than thirty militants of the Frente de la Juventud were arrested by the police, and accused of terrorist activities, among them a bombing in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
which killed one person and wounded nine others. The party officially dissolved August 29, 1982.
Bolivia and prison sentences
From France, he departed to Latin America, where he engaged in (mostly undisclosed) collaboration with a number of activists and regimes of probably diverging political obedience. As he admitted himself in his interview with Manuel Vázquez MontalbánManuel Vázquez Montalbán
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter....
, during his stay in Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
he worked as an adviser (most likely on PSYOPS or plain torture) for the short-lived Cocaine-coup dictatorship
Luis García Meza Tejada
Luis García Meza Tejada is a former Bolivian dictator. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the reign of dictator Hugo Banzer...
along with infamous neo-fascists such as Stefano delle Chiaie
Stefano Delle Chiaie
Stefano Delle Chiaie is a neofascist Italian activist . He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspect to be involved in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge...
and war criminal Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie
Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was an SS-Hauptsturmführer , Gestapo member and war criminal. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon.- Early life :...
, later returning to Spain in 1983.
Upon his return, he was arrested by the police at the Spanish frontier with Ingram
Ingram
- Places :* Ingram, Northumberland, England* Ingram, California, community in Mendocino County, California, USA* Ingram, Pennsylvania in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA* Ingram, Texas, city in Kerr County, Texas, USA...
machine guns in his possession, indicted on firearms and illegal demonstration charges and sentenced to two years in prison.
The February 22, 1983 edition of El País informed of his formal confinement in the Carabanchel
Carabanchel
Carabanchel is a district in the south western suburbs of Madrid, Spain.-Overview:The area was the scene of fierce fighting during the Spanish Civil War -especially in November 1936, during the Battle of Madrid, when Nationalist troops tried to fight their way into the area. Unacustomed to street...
prison, along with that of Rafael Tormo Acosta, after the aforementioned arrest. The April 14 article in El País even qualified Milá's wife's written plea on behalf of her husband as "pathetic".
The October 3, 1985 issue of El País informed of a new arrest, this time in the streets of Barcelona, and his immediate confinement in the Modelo prison, in order to execute his pending sentence for the 1980 incidents in the UCD headquarters.
Recent history
Upon release from prison, Milà founded the Dissidencias journal, after having participated in forming Juntas EspañolasJuntas Españolas
The Juntas Españolas was an extreme right political party in Spain created in 1983 after a call was issued through the defunct newspaper El Alcázar by the newspaper's director, Antonio Izquierdo. The group also followed the failure and self-dissolution of the Fuerza Nueva of Blas Piñar.The group...
along with the El Alcázar
El Alcázar
El Alcázar was a Spanish far-right newspaper founded in 1936 . The paper was founded as the principal nationalist mouthpiece during the Siege of the Alcázar in homage to the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo ....
director, Antonio Izquierdo. During that time he directed Ediciones Alternativa, which published the first translations of the works of the Italian esoterist and fascist
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
ideologue Julius Evola
Julius Evola
Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...
, one of whose career highlights was the Italian translation of the anti-Semitic libel Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In 2000 he became a militant of the umbrella far-right group Democracia Nacional, already a haven for CEDADE
CEDADE
CEDADE was a Spanish neo-Nazi group that concerned itself with co-ordinating international activity and publishing....
ex-members (such as Christian Ruiz Reguant, Laureano Luna or Joaquín Bochaca) and other Spanish neo-nazis. In 2004 Milà disenfranchised himself from DN after bitter disagreements with its leader, Manuel Canduela.
His attention then turned to Spain 2000, the controversial far-right platform linked to the Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Locales de Alterne or ANELA, Spain's largest pimp syndicate (see Los Amos de la prostitución en España by Joan Cantarero (Ediciones B, 2007) ). Milá was recently appointed as the party's press secretary, and appeared in the election list for the 2008 General Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...
, ostensibly an attempt to gain preponderance over other fascist groups in Spain by capitalizing on Milá's extensive history. Milá's presumed relation with the CNI
CNI
CNI is the abbreviation for a number of organizations and companies, including:* Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, the Spanish secret service agency.* Church of North India...
and its predecessors, albeit not as yet admitted by him, has raised found an outcry in most far-right blogs, especially those of Democracia Nacional and the currently marginal entourage of the once infamous Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas, who had a row with Milá himself although the latter decided not to press charges.
Widely considered the most intellectually ambitious and well-connected of all Spanish neo-fascists who have escaped successful or permanent legal prosecution, Milá is nowadays devoted to "cultural" dissertations in his blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
on Julius Evola
Julius Evola
Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...
, theosophy
Theosophy
Theosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...
, Esoteric Nazism
Esoteric Nazism
The term Esoteric Nazism refers to semi-religious developments of Nazism in the post-World War II period. After 1945, esoteric elements of the Third Reich were developed into new völkisch religions of white identity. Examples of post-war Nazi mystical philosophies include Esoteric Hitlerism and...
, purportedly "mysterious" aspects of History (such Catharism, Freemasonry
Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...
and unknown or "intriguing" aspects of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
or Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.Much of Gaudí's work was...
's legacy) and other subjects, most notably surveillance
Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
and security
Physical security
Physical security describes measures that are designed to deny access to unauthorized personnel from physically accessing a building, facility, resource, or stored information; and guidance on how to design structures to resist potentially hostile acts...
. He also uses the blog to extend on his particular view of contemporary topics, such as immigration
Immigration
Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...
, as well as to occasionally write film reviews. He has worked jointly with a number of printed and electronic media, with special attention towards esoterism and the occult. His orientation towards these themes has been the object of many a controversy with other journalists He also published in journals such as El Alcázar
El Alcázar
El Alcázar was a Spanish far-right newspaper founded in 1936 . The paper was founded as the principal nationalist mouthpiece during the Siege of the Alcázar in homage to the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo ....
and Defensa, Más allá de la ciencia, Año Cero, Próximo Milenio, Nueva Dimensión and Historia y Vida,
some of them also including articles by historic militants of CEDADE
CEDADE
CEDADE was a Spanish neo-Nazi group that concerned itself with co-ordinating international activity and publishing....
. The information in the articles written by Milá and published in his blog is often inconsistent with the known historical facts (e.g. assuming that it was William the Conqueror, and not Harold Godwinson
Harold Godwinson
Harold Godwinson was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.It could be argued that Edgar the Atheling, who was proclaimed as king by the witan but never crowned, was really the last Anglo-Saxon king...
, who defeated Harald III of Norway at the Battle of "Stanford" (sic) Bridge
Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway and the English king's brother Tostig...
), or punctuated by facts and rumors of which he does seldom presents a proof, such as the different conspiracies whose confluence led to the 1981 coup attempt in Spain
23-F
23-F was an attempted coup d'état in Spain that began on 23 February 1981 and ended on the following day. It is also known as El Tejerazo from the name of its most visible figure, Antonio Tejero, who led the failed coup's most notable event: the bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies by a...
.
He was the chief editor of the Saber Más magazine, distributed in 1997 with the El Mundo
El Mundo (Spain)
El Mundo is the second largest printed and the largest digital daily newspaper in Spain and one of the newspapers of record in that country, with a daily circulation topping 300,000 readers for the printed edition and 24 million unique web visitors per month for the...
edition in Catalunya—the relation between mainstream, purportedly center-right communication media such as El Mundo, Telemadrid
Telemadrid
Telemadrid is the first autonomous public television station of Madrid and the fifth national station, after those of Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia and Andalusia. It is affiliated with FORTA since its inception, and it is a public channel that belongs exclusively to the autonomous government of...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
or the COPE
COPE
COPE may refer to:* The Council of Pacific Education , a regional branch of Education International, the global federation of teachers' trade unions* Coalition of Progressive Electors, a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
with former or rumoured neo-Nazi activists has long been a matter of controversy.
He then became chief editor for Nuevos Horizontes, directed by notorious "occultist" Sebastià d'Arbó, and then for the (In)Seguridad magazine. He is currently the editor of the Revista IdentidaD.