What is collusion?

What Does collusion Mean

The notion of conspiracy , which has its etymological source in Latin ( contubernĭum ), is used to name an agreement or an association that is objectionable or unworthy. The term can be applied to illicit pacts, conspiracies or other understandings that deserve repudiation.

For example: "I think Ariel has a collusion with Ramírez" , "The manager was outraged to discover a collusion between several of his employees and the managers of the competition" , "I will not tolerate any collusion within this political party ” .
The idea has been used to define various alliances throughout history , always with a pejorative connotation . Thus we can find references to the conspiracy of Jews, Communists and Freemasons , a supposed association between these groups to control the world. This unlikely alliance is wielded by anti-Semites, anti-communists and groups opposed to Freemasonry .

The followers of Francisco Franco , on the other hand, christened the Fourth Congress of the European Movement that took place in the German city in 1962 as the Munich Conspiracy . The rating tried to minimize the participation of more than a hundred politicians in Spain who opposed Francoism .
More precisely, this event took place on June 5 and 6, and 118 politicians from Spain participated in the meeting, belonging to almost all the organizations that opposed the Franco regime. Needless to say, the latter was shocked at the news and accused all its participants of traitors.
To provide some context for the situation, we must go back to the beginning of April 1962, a particularly difficult spring for the Spanish. At that time, an unprecedented strike of 150,000 mining workers took place; the first well to stop its activity was the Nicolasa de Mieres , and little by little the other mines in Asturias were added.
The result of this strike , which lasted for two months, was an increase in wages and the price of coal, a benefit for businessmen. Not only did the Asturian miners rise up, but the strike included other industries from various provinces. Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya and Asturias received the decree of a state of exception from the regime on May 4, and just eight days later the national press was forced to minimize the mining conflict by means of a note, which also highlighted the virtues of the Asturians.

This fact did not go unnoticed by the opponents of the Franco regime, who also could not ignore the repression that took place during the strike that ended so far from the legitimacy that the workers should pursue. The force of his plans to overthrow Franco grew day by day, sometimes under the nose of the regime itself making use of certain privileges typical of political life.
Around eighty of the anti-Franco militants who participated in the Munich conspiracy were in Spain, while the rest had been exiles, especially Republicans and Socialists . For the meeting to be viable, the Communists were not admitted.
Beyond this type of use, it also continues to take conspiracy or conspiracy in the proper sense that the Romans gave it. In this case, it should be mentioned that a conspiracy was a kind of tent or tent in which eight soldiers lived together during their training or campaign. The term also allowed to name the military unit that these soldiers formed.
The conspiracies, in turn, could be grouped by ten to form a century , another units of the Roman army. Commanding the centuries was the centurion, a high-ranking officer.