The speed at which political leaders are currently being burned out in democratic societies is something that is no longer news. The players change so quickly that some pass without leaving a trace. The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has suffered a…
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have been working for some time to address the resurgence of the Latin gang phenomenon in Madrid and Barcelona. Unlike the Latin Kings and Ñetas who dominated youth crime news in the 2000s, we are now talking about the Trinitarios, Barrio 18, and the 300 who fight over public spaces and are now in the news because they recruit minors at the doors of secondary schools.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office continues on the path of giving credibility to all, or a large part, of what the corrupter Víctor de Aldama has stated. For this reason, it has requested the judge investigating the cash payments from the PSOE to the former minister José Luis Ábalos to include the statement of the commission agent given as an accused in the Supreme Court.
The Prosecutor’s Office supports the partial pardon for the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz, convicted of a crime of disclosure of documents. The report has been submitted to the Supreme Court, which must now issue its own to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice for evaluation. The deputy prosecutor of the high court argues that the conviction has led the former number 1 of the public ministry to “intense and disproportionate extrapenal consequences.”
“Regarding the statement issued this morning by the Community of Madrid, WE CATEGORICALLY DENY having received any threats or instructions from the President of our country, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, or any official of the Government of Mexico regarding the holding of the Los Premios Platino Xcaret.” Not even carved in stone with a chisel would the denial be read more emphatically than the hotel group, the most important in the Riviera Maya and one of the largest in the country, has just issued a few minutes ago.
Up to three candidates have applied so far (candidacies can be submitted until June 10) to preside over the DO Cava, succeeding Javier Pagés who has completed two terms. Once the 12 members of the new board are elected following yesterday’s elections, the presidency is expected to be decided on June 11. Marta Vidal made the announcement this morning, Friday, at the headquarters of the sector’s employers’ association in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, the Associació d’Elaboradors de Cava (Aecava), and later presented it to the staff of her cellars based in Vilobí del Penedès and to her grape suppliers. If she obtains enough votes, she will become the first woman to preside over the DO Cava since its founding in 1972.
The educational community and a large part of the parliamentary groups of the Parliament of Catalonia are at war over the infiltration of two Mossos d’Esquadra agents in a teachers’ assembly held on Wednesday. Initially, the force, through its X account, limited itself to saying that it works to “guarantee the free right of assembly and demonstration” and that it carries out its functions and responsibilities “always in accordance with current legislation and according to the competencies assigned to it.” Later, from the general directorate of the Catalan police, they issued a statement arguing that the General Commissariat of Information has specific information-gathering functions assigned by law, implicitly acknowledging the presence of the agents at the meeting.
One day after Fede Valverde reacted, Aurélien Tchouaméni did so via a statement on social media. He did so once the half-million euro fine for each of the two Real Madrid players became known.
One day after the fight in the Real Madrid locker room between Tchouaméni and Valverde became public, which ended with the latter in the hospital with stitches and a recovery period of between 10 and 14 days, the club issued a statement this afternoon explaining the sanction.
“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions but ones that are common and no one dies from.