Next year around this time, several candidacies will have already been presented for the North American presidential elections in November 2028. Campaigns are increasingly expensive and complex, and nothing can be left to chance.
The Israeli flag already flies atop Beaufort Castle, the main lookout of southern Lebanon. The fortress, built 900 years ago during the Crusaders’ advance towards Jerusalem, is a symbolic but also strategic conquest for the Israeli Army, which is already advancing into Lebanese territory beyond the Litani River.
How the life of a tennis player goes back and forth, with what passion Pablo Carreño feels it, a 34-year-old Asturian workaholic who years ago had been the tenth racket in the world and in recent times has overcome a range of injuries and is now also a father and when asked, he answers:
Encarnació Bosch is 91 years old and lucky to have kept the same friends since she was 12. Of this group of six women, she claims to be the most mentally agile and, aside from genetic factors, she is convinced it is because she is a very active woman. “I sign up for anything,” she tells La Vanguardia by phone, as she cannot meet in person because “soon I see a friend, and tomorrow we are also going out.” Neither her age nor having a disability prevents her from getting up at 7 to go to tai chi classes or carry out a whole series of activities, including going to a museum from time to time. The Picasso is one of her favorites, especially after having discovered it in depth thanks to ArtGran, a social program promoted by the Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona whose goal is to reduce unwanted loneliness and improve the well-being of older people through art and culture.
Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) is very cautious. The writer refuses to venture predictions for Cuba or to answer whether he sees any middle ground between the current regime and a U.S. intervention that would lead to a status of protectorate or colony for the island. “I have no idea what might happen,” says the winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2015, visiting Paris to promote the French version of Going to Havana and for a colloquium at the Cervantes Institute. The author, tired of the media’s insistence for him to take a stand, acknowledges that the Spanish transition could be an inspiring source, like many others, “but it depends on other decisions that are beyond my reach, not even able to outline them.” “Speculating about any future is very risky; speculating about Cuba’s future is madness,” he apologizes.
Natural, spontaneous, friendly, uninhibited and also, as he is, a bit playful. For the first time since he got injured against Celta on April 22, Lamine Yamal explained how he experienced the moment he got injured at the Spotify Camp Nou and what he felt in the hours afterward. He does not hide the panic that overwhelmed him at that moment at the possibility of missing the World Cup. After taking and scoring the penalty in which he suffered the injury, Lamine experienced fear. “I remember the sequence in which I got injured. I was praying inside that it was nothing, that it was a cramp or something, because I saw myself very close to the World Cup moment. I was afraid it was very serious or that I could relapse and miss the World Cup,” said the Barcelona forward in statements to the Spanish Federation media.
There is not a single club that is here to give lessons to another. The most ruthless capitalism has been guiding elite football for too long, and opacity is taken for granted as if it were part of the rules of the game. All clubs fit into that bag, ours and those of…
A man from Asturias with character and feet on the ground has achieved what French pride and Qatari money could not for years. In France, there is unanimous consensus that Luis Enrique has been the true architect of PSG’s success in the Champions League, the club’s obsessive goal, because the Spanish coach, as a providential man, has worked the miracle of transforming the team, not only football-wise but in spirit, in method, in soul.
The phrase from former advisor Koldo García in his final statement in the trial for the Mask case, at the Supreme Court, was prophetic: “This has only just begun.” On that May 6, who was the right hand of José Luis Ábalos, Minister of Transport until 2021, said that phrase before hearing the “ready for sentencing” that would send him back to Soto del Real prison. He remains there.
“While the scheming opposition can continue maneuvering, we will keep governing until 2027 and for as long as the Spanish people want,” warned Pedro Sánchez. In a climate of total uncertainty amid the flood of legal cases surrounding the political and family environment of the Prime Minister, and without knowing how far these processes may escalate but also with no expectation that the storm will subside, nothing is better than a good warm bath of youthful socialist militancy to try to catch one’s breath and, at the same time, attempt to inject fighting spirit into troops torn between indignation and discouragement.