Rocío Cortés, former mayor of Requena, a town flooded by the October 29 flood in which there were no victims, has stated in court that “in Requena there were no deaths or injuries because the population was warned.”
Six columns of teachers will converge this Monday with the purpose of showing the Ministry of Education the strength of the indefinite strike of Valencian teaching staff. On the sixth day of the strike and after the successful first week of protests – with the historic demonstration last Friday -, the unions have called up to six marches to pressure Carmen Ortí’s department on a day that is expected to be key in trying to bring positions closer.
In his speech on the day of the squads of the general police judicial commissariat, its head, Commissioner Ramón Chacón, admitted that the widespread improvement in the data on the dismantling of criminal organizations, arrests, and drug seizure operations was accompanied by an intensification of shootout revenge killings. Murders from behind, in broad daylight, which are increasingly frequent on our streets and which, overnight, national gangs adopt as if naturally to eliminate their enemies.
The Mobile organization announced a few days ago through a statement that John Hoffman is stepping down as CEO of the GSMA to take on the role of chairman of the company responsible for the most important congress in Barcelona starting July 1. After 20 years in the position, the step aside has raised some suspicions that Hoffman himself wants to clarify from his home in the United States.
The Municipal Police of Madrid have arrested a woman of about 36 years old in the Carabanchel district for leaving her son, under two years old, in the stroller on the street while she was partying with other friends.
Barcelona has been debating tourist overcrowding for a few years. The tourism-phobic voices promoted by certain political parties encouraged demonstrations and street gestures of hostility towards tourists that went viral worldwide, such as violent assaults on…
I’m “going as a lady with chemo.” This was the response that Teresa Rodríguez, founder of Adelante Andalucía, gave yesterday on her social media to an internet user who was mocking her for wearing a kufiya on her head. “What are you dressed up as?” he snapped. The response left no one indifferent.
“The civil guards are very persistent, also when searching for victims. Hope is the last thing to go,” says the highest-ranking officer of the Civil Guard in the Valencian Community, General José Antonio Fernández de Luz. In an interview with the EFE Agency, Fernández de Luz responds this way when asked about the search efforts for two of the 230 fatalities of the dana, including a guard from the Paiporta post and the wife of another agent. “At least every 15 days we set up a search operation to look again where we have already been or in areas that experts in the field may indicate to us,” he adds about the search, almost 19 months after the dana, for the bodies of Elisabeth and Francisco, two of the flood victims.
The PSPV-PSOE spokesperson in the Valencian Corts, José Muñoz, has denounced that the president of the Generalitat, Pérez Llorca, “has hidden” from the Valencian people that the Government of Pedro Sánchez approved in February an advance of 200 million euros on account of the settlement of the financing system to help him pay the bills for health, education, and social services. The information, explains the PSPV, comes after reviewing the official documentation sent by the Ministry of Finance to the socialist group in the Corts, and the Finance resolution to the request of the regional government stipulates that the advance granted “will be canceled when the payment of the settlement of the financing system corresponding to 2024 is made.”
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana met this Sunday with some teachers at the pilgrimage of San Pascual Bailón in Monforte del Cid, in Alicante, and there he spoke with them about the situation of public education. In the video he shared on the social network “X” Pérez Llorca is seen talking with a group of teachers, dressed in the green t-shirt that characterizes the teachers these days of indefinite strike. And in the message preceding the video, he insists on the idea of dialogue: “Talking and working. That is the best way to solve the situation of education in the Valencian Community. Always willing to dialogue, because only by talking, listening, and working together can we move forward.”