In Isla Cristina, these days people should be talking about the traditional festival of the Virgen del Mar, but that is not the case. Since Sunday, when the triple murder occurred, many conversations revolve around the few details that have emerged about the shooting, an investigation that remains under judicial secrecy but whose main hypothesis is that it is a settling of scores between two families involved in drug trafficking. The conflict between the two clans dates back to 2024, when a man was shot dead in the Torrejón neighborhood, in Huelva city, and two other people were injured. The alleged perpetrator, nicknamed Baba, was later arrested in Gijón.

Juan Antonio Samaranch said of the 1992 Olympic Games that they had managed to change the mentality of the people of Barcelona. “Now they are more optimistic, less whiny,” he defended, in an interview with La Vanguardia in March 1996. The social – almost Olympic – sport of overseeing each and every one of the 73 neighborhoods of Barcelona has not been lost, but if that summer achieved anything, everyone who made it possible agrees, it was to establish a confidence that never left. At the forefront of the metamorphosis, with permission from Maragall, was precisely the now deceased president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who passed away in 2010, a figure who was honored yesterday just in the year that marks 40 years since his “a la ville de… Barcelona.”

We took for granted that Father Schneider was a saint. He was said to be a saint and looked like a saint. He visited the lepers, collected money for the missions, and beat his chest while telling us how our Seventh-grade classmates were giving in to tobacco and…