The misery that existed in the south of Gran Canaria due to the presence of a tomato sector that enslaved the sharecroppers of the sector in quarters and misery, playing with the weight of the boxes of tomatoes at the expense of the efforts of the southerners, had the protection of Franco because the Bonnys were collaborating partners that caused the outbreak of the civil war and Franco's repression in Tirajana. Only the presence of grassroots Christians in the southeast of Gran Canaria generated the opening of the system. Franco knew or wanted to know what was happening in the south of Gran Canaria after the end of the civil war in 1939. The tomato sector was dismantling the economy of the south of the island, generating an agricultural monoculture in the hands of foreigners that has only been replaced by tourism. , also in the Franco period. The law only prevailed against the worker because the Bonnys participated in the conspiracies against the republic in July 1936.
Specifically, Antonio and Juliano Bonny would finance the arrival of Franco's plane to formally announce the outbreak of the conflict in Tetouan. It was also attending to the 'Dragon Rapide', the De Havilland DH.89 plane that would take Franco to Morocco. The operation, although financed by Spanish conspirators, had the consent of London, as historian Paul Preston maintains in his biography of the dictator, who died in 1975. Juliano Bonny Gómez began to support Franco after creating his agrarian empire in 1935. Initially, near Las Palmas but with the growing increase in business it moved to the south of Gran Canaria while having its own network in England. The company accelerated its power since 1969
On July 14, José Antonio Sangroniz had arrived in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, informing Franco of the arrival in Gran Canaria of the plane that was to take him to Tetouan. General Orgaz, with the help of Antonio Bonny, was in charge of organizing the reception and accommodation of the crew in Las Palmas. The arrangements made to rent the Dragon Rapid and mask the purpose for which its use was intended are explained in some detail in Thomas Hugh in 'La Guerre d'Espagne', Paris, and in more detail Víctor Morales Lezcano in 'The English in the Canary Islands ' edited by the Government of the Canary Islands in 1992. It is also narrated in the memoirs of those events written by one of its protagonists: Luis Bolín in 1967.
The beginning of the civil war and the rapid control of the Canary Islands by the military involved in the uprising had immediate repercussions on other areas of administrative life: for example, in the presidency of the Board of Works of the Port of Las Palmas, where the general of brigade in reserve Guillermo Camacho González displaced Juan Bordes Claverie, who had just taken possession of that position days before. And in the Chamber of Commerce a week after the proclamation of the state of war. The vacancies were filled by Fernando Cambreleg del Castillo and Diego Vega Sarmiento. The latter would serve as vice president from August 11, 1936. Meanwhile, Antonio Bonny presented his resignation as president of the Chamber of Commerce of Las Palmas because, being a foreigner, he could not do so since it was a period of war. Edmundo Hernández Medina, Civil Governor on August 4, 1936, protected Bonny's agrarian interests in the south of Gran Canaria at all times.
