During the office of the socialist mayor Manuela Carmena (2015–19), the names of 52 streets in Madrid were changed. The original street names used before the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) were recuperated, or else the names of women scholars or pedagogical institutions, among others, were introduced. Madrid has been cracking open the sites of official memory to revision, civic dialogue, and participation. Yet when it comes to addressing the ways in which Spanish colonialism continues to organize city life in the present, contradictory policies of recognition and denial persist. On March 20, 2019, the city council held a ceremony marking an official apology to the Romani people for centuries of political repression. A few days later, the mayor responded to an attack on the homes of Romani families in the neighborhood of Vallecas by saying, “We don’t have racism in Madrid.” In September, the president of the community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, blamed the “way of life” of the immigrant working class for the city’s Covid-19 infections, leading to protests.