Imagine if for years you were paying for a service that over the years not only got worse and worse but also increasingly more expensive, what would you do? Well, as shooting someone is still illegal, you might as well not pay them, which is what the Town Hall of La Puebla has done: cease paying their electricity bills. In fact, [mappress]

Since then, the electric company has not seen one centime from the town, and in reply to demands to modernize the primitive system, Endesa has done absolutely nothing but ask for more money.

This is of course institutionalized robbery; exactly what companies like Movistar, Vodaphone and Telefónica have been doing to the Spanish public for years without the federal government doing anything about it. Now the local government and people have taken to the streets demanding more action, such as boicotting the company.

Such solidarity between government and citizen is rarely seen, but seeing as how all of them are getting screwed together financially, the union of forces is perfectly understandable. Good luck to them, and down with corporate thievery.