An analysis of El Roto’s newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policies

From the start of the economic crisis in 2008, there was a shift in the Spanish social landscape, with growing opposition to the government’s austerity measures. The opposition reached a peak in 2011 with the rise of the 15-M movement, and from then on people have kept claiming for citizens’ rights in the streets and organizing themselves in social movements, such as Indignados, Real Democracy, or even political parties, like Podemos.