From the euphoria of the fourth Champions, to the sadness of a farewell that, although anticipated in recent weeks, still hurts. The departure of Alexia Putellas is now a reality. Three days after being crowned European champions, Barça and their captain have announced her farewell with an emotional video through social media.
The investigation into the rescue of Plus Ultra continues to accumulate evidence and politically pressure José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, but the judicial uncertainties remain numerous. This was argued by Manel Pérez, deputy director, who distinguished between the ethical and criminal aspects of a case that, in his opinion, raises questions about the activities carried out by the former president after leaving La Moncloa. “Zapatero has a serious problem of credibility and behavior, and of the economic relationships he has woven since leaving the presidency of the Government,” he stated. However, he recalled that the judicial order known so far “still does not clearly reveal what the role of the former president was.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sold to the businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, located at the center of the plot investigated by judge José Luis Calama, a house in Almería in 2011, the last year of his term as President of the Government, according to the report from the National Office for Fraud Investigation (ONIF) submitted to the case file, which does not specify the exact date of the transaction.
The relationship between Plus Ultra and Julio Martínez Martínez, the friend and alleged frontman of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was very close and was further strengthened thanks to various contracts, which have led to the indictment of the former Prime Minister. On December 11, 2025, the judicial police searched Martínez’s homes. They found 268,000 euros in cash hidden in various places such as a golf cart. They also found several contracts that have proven very revealing for the investigation.
The DelcyGate, as the meeting on January 20, 2020, at Barajas airport between the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and the now acting president of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez – who was banned from the Schengen area by the European Union – is known, has landed in the Plus Ultra Case file. The commissioner in charge of the Madrid airport on the night of the murky stopover, Jesús María Gómez Martín, was able to provide “favors,” such as allegedly avoiding customs controls for the investigated Venezuelan magnates, in exchange for “rewards.”
Iñaki Gabilondo is the protagonist this Tuesday of a new session of Foros de Vanguardia in which he will address the current challenges of the profession under the title “Journalism in the era of disinformation”.
About to mark four years since her separation from Gerard Piqué, Shakira has surprised with conciliatory statements towards the former footballer. The Colombian singer, who is going through one of the most successful moments of her career, has wanted to publicly acknowledge the importance that the former Barça player had in her personal and family life.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres -so, without accents and with a hyphen to join his two last names into one- was a child when, in 1971, he was in Madrid for the first time, where he arrived from Cuba, sent by his family to keep him away from the Castro regime. Twenty years later, in 1991, he returned and consummated a “sweet revenge,” it is not known against what or whom, which now, more than three decades later, is echoed by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
The BBVA board of directors met this Tuesday in Barcelona on a day marked by the entity’s commitment to innovation and business transformation. The Catalan capital also hosts the corporate banking sessions organized by the bank, a meeting that brings together more than a hundred client companies from all over Spain and has AI as one of its main topics.
In the midst of World Cup fever, the luxury industry finds in the world of football a place to take shelter and to connect with. This was evidenced this Tuesday by the Spanish brand Loewe when announcing its collaboration as an official partner of the Spanish national football teams.