Intense day in the newsroom of La Vanguardia and I imagine also in the rest of the media in light of the revelation of the case file affecting former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which consists of a total of 697 different documents. Imagine the…
If we review the archives of the last three years, we will see that the current legislature is being fought more in the courts than in the Congress of Deputies. The judicial cases involving politicians fall on the two main parties in Spain, with the…
This week there has been good news in Catalunya. The PSC, ERC, and the commons have reached a budget agreement that will allow a 10% increase in spending and represents a point of stability in Catalunya, after years of shocks and paralysis. In this…
You may have seen it, perhaps, that message that has received countless likes on social media. “For the first time in history, you can simply post ‘HE IS AN IDIOT’ and 90 percent of the world will know who you are talking about.” Hahaha. Very good. But the idiot also has reasons to…
Without a doubt, the word of the week has been mango, whether referring to the clothing store you can find on any central street identical to any major capital in the world, or as the first person singular present tense of the verb mangar. It has been very curious…
It should be noted that the ruling by Judge José Luis Calama against José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was made public two days after the Andalusian elections vote. If the judicial document, which has already dropped like a bomb this week among the socialist ranks, is…
All those who stayed with Disney’s Bambi cannot believe what is happening with Zapatero. In that story, we saw how a mother gave birth to a fawn with friendly eyebrows, destined to assume, already with antlers, the role of the Great Prince of the Forest (Felipe…
Xi Jinping has received Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in less than a week at his palaces in Beijing. It is normal for the official Chinese press to boast and consider that their country “is at the epicenter of world diplomacy.” More distant with the former and more affable with the…
News surprise, outrage, please, or sadden. They never cause indifference. Some, like the arrest of Jonathan Andic, simply and nothing less leave that bad taste in the mouth against which no toothpaste or mouthwash is effective. I include myself in the list of those greeted by…
When a judge orders the imprisonment of a son as the alleged murderer of his father and another judge considers that a former Prime Minister of Spain is the “leader” of a criminal network of corruption and influence peddling, we have no other option as journalists than to…