The King of Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbon, hunting elephants in Botswana this past week. Photo via.

There is a huge uproar in Spain at the moment over this. The “safari” (it’s the name the Monarchy is using) resulted in a serious injury for the King who broke his hip and had to be urgently hospitalized. If it wasn’t for that accident, the whole hunting elephants would have never come out as his trips are usually not disclosed to media. And in a country plagued by soaring unemployment figures and an increase in people living below the poverty line, this one trip alone cost more than 45,000 Euros for a mere week of “entertainment”. Not to mention the fact that a Head of State should not go around shooting elephants in Africa, in a colonizer deja vu that is unpalatable for a great number of people.

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