I think Aleix Vidal-Quadras is saying (via) that Irene Rigau said, "Ministro, me tengo que marchar porque he de visualizar mi oposición a la ley", and that you can't use visualizar in that fashion - Luís Soravilla says the latter.

Rigau certainly belongs in prison for her refusal to carry out court orders illegalising Catalan immersion - contumacy is such a lovely word! - but her use of visualizar for "hacer visible" or "retratar" or "mostrar" in a general sense strikes my mental corpus as normal contemporary Spanish, whatever the equally incarcerable Royal Academy thinks. A couple of apposite examples:

1. El País, 24/04/2004: "En Colombia, desde la década de los cincuenta, una parte importante de la producción literaria intenta mil argumentos, personajes, tramas y géneros, todo ello con el afán de visualizar su tragedia política, su enquistada violencia cotidiana."
2. Público, 27/06/2011: "Tres presidentas ayudan al PP a visualizar su idea de igualdad. El partido exhibe a sus jefas de gobierno autonómicas como prueba de que el sistema de cuotas no es necesario para el acceso de la mujer a la política."
3. Deia, 18/10/2012: Eusko Alkartasuna contraprogramará este mediodía un acto de apoyo de sus cargos públicos, presentes y pasados, al proyecto de EH Bildu. A solo tres días de las elecciones autonómicas, la formación que lidera Pello Urizar se ha apresurado a visualizar su respaldo a la candidatura de Laura Mintegi a lehendakari.

I wonder if this isn't a conservative, xenophobic register thing - that they think of visualizar as yet another anglocabrón invasion, imported by those notoriously miscegenating Latin Americans or unsoldby Leninists - but I have no evidence.

Tags & auto-cached WP extracts:

• Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca (1) Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca is a Spanish Member of the European Parliament, and a radiation physicist.
• Catalan language (50)
• Irene Rigau i Oliver (1)
• José Ignacio Wert (2) José Ignacio Wert Ortega is a Spanish politician.
• Language policy (37)
• Nationalism (98)
• Register (sociolinguistics) (1) In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
• Spanish language (224)

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