On the 50th anniversary of the Onze de Setembre of 1976, La Vanguardia brought together this week the former presidents of the Generalitat José Montilla and Artur Mas to talk about what the first authorized Diada after Franco’s death meant, and about the challenges of today’s Catalonia.
They are watching their phones and the sky all day, in case a column of smoke forms again. The neighbors also watch roads and highways, in case they see any suspicious movement. The ADF volunteers barely get any sleep and, in addition to the firefighters, forest agents, Civil Guard, and Mossos remain deployed on the ground. In the mountains behind Santes Creus (Aiguamúrcia), in the extensive and lush forests of this part of Alt Camp, northern Penedès, and southern Anoia, they have been on alert for ten days. Six fires and several reactivations of the fire have raised alarms. Everything indicates that an arsonist is on the loose.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero defined Julio Martínez Martínez as “a good friend” during his appearance in the Senate. The former president also acknowledged that he worked drafting reports for one of Martínez’s companies, Análisis Relevante. It has now emerged that the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the Police maintains that Martínez was also the alleged frontman for Zapatero: “He is the boss’s bank.”
One week after the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta, the authorities and NGOs are working to identify the minors who remain in the autonomous city, many of them on the street and without shelter, at the mercy of the help they receive from organizations, administrations, and neighbors, who have also organized to collaborate.
A tourist has been hospitalized since last Friday due to the serious injuries caused by the charge of an angry bison in Yellowstone National Park, United States. The animal, weighing about 900 kilos and visibly agitated, threw into the air a man who was watching the large mammal with his grandson.
In a situation of tug of war and with the ceasefire in limbo, a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Sunday that they had received, through Pakistan, a response from the United States to their 14-point proposal to end the war conflict.
The jet fuel crisis caused by the war in the Middle East continues to take its toll on the airline industry. This time, the impact reaches Barcelona airport, which temporarily loses a route to Tangier due to the rising price of fuel. This is the connection that Royal Air Maroc operated until now from El Prat and which transported 83,580 people between January and April, 0.5% of the total passengers, according to Aena data.
El Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (Meteocat) has issued a warning for severe weather in several counties of Catalunya for this Saturday afternoon, according to a message on X.
Police statistics go one way and public perception goes another. This is the key to everything. In many towns in inland Catalonia, there has been an increase in the immigrant population, mainly from North Africa, which has changed the landscape of the…
Not even 24 hours. The new mural that urban artist TVboy had drawn in Joanic square of Ferran Torres kissing the World Cup —just covering his previous drawing of Leo Messi with the Barça shirt and the message “Barcelona, I’ll be back”, painted in December— has woken up vandalized.
