In FIFA, it is already customary to choose pariah countries as World Cup hosts. The 2018 one was in Russia. The 2022 one in Qatar. The 2026 one in the United States. Compassion? Or, the usual, bribes? I want to think that it is a benevolent impulse on the part of the capo di tutti…
When the Pope scheduled the official visit that began yesterday in Spain, he could hardly imagine the great climate of polarization that exists in the country’s political life. Since Pedro Sánchez’s investiture, the confrontation situation resembles a pressure cooker that emits a…
This Saturday morning, the people from Panenka magazine, which would be the The New Yorker of football, invited me to a talk. I accepted because talking about football is always good and for the posturing of performing at the Panenka Fest, which would be the Primavera Sound for geeks…
Vladimir Putin is not living his best moments in Russia. The country is experiencing a certain economic stagnation and its soldiers are retreating on the Ukrainian front for the second consecutive month. Last Wednesday, the St. International Economic Forum could not have started worse…
In the old Tarzan movies, there were always greedy, white villains with rifles who wanted to hunt elephants or get their hands on some precious diamonds. To achieve this, it was essential for them to establish relationships with the local people. These were aborigines with…
Catalan teachers have ample reasons to show their discomfort with the state of education in our country and with their low salaries. Up to this point, public opinion can only agree. The continuous results of the PISA reports that…
Today more than ever there are two Spains that struggle to impose their narrative in this highly polarized society. On one side, there is the Spain that denounces “socialist corruption,” where the cases under investigation pile up that, for one reason or another, implicate PSOE leaders and…
Israel has not ceased its offensive against Hizbullah in Lebanon, despite the peace negotiations underway between Iran and the United States to end the war in the region. Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored Donald Trump’s recommendations and has continued his offensive, which is…
Birth rates continue to decline. Especially among the indigenous community, which decreases while the general population increases due to the arrival of foreigners seeking opportunities or the friendly qualities of our country: good climate, affordable economy, and good connections for…
For many years it had become a recurring joke to criticize young people who were growing up and still living in their parents’ house. The jokes turned into grimaces upon realizing that if they did not move out of the family home, it was not out of whim,…