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This 87-year-old was thrown out on the street — and she has America's titans scared stiff
What happened
RawStory reports that Madrid police removed 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal from her longtime apartment on September 23 after her landlord sought a tenant change to raise the rent. Images of Abascal, a wheelchair user, being carried out on a stretcher triggered protests; the landlord later reversed course and allowed her to return home.
The article connects her eviction to Spain’s housing crisis, failed tenant protections, anti-austerity movements, and American election spending. But it does not establish that Abascal herself frightened America’s “titans,” or that American…
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