Pedro Sánchez has been dragged into making political decisions as head of government that he surely would never have adopted with an absolute majority. He has made concessions to nationalist parties and also to Podemos and Sumar. The PP is going down the same path in its relationship
Many years ago at a Sant Jordi party at the Alma hotel, Rodrigo Fresán told me about the plot of a book that had not been translated here. It was the story of a policeman who, in the last days before the end of the world, decides to continue doing his police work. It’s
Former government president Mariano Rajoy and his right-hand woman in the Popular Party, María Dolores de Cospedal, are sticking to their guns. For them, the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas was the traitor, who hid millions of euros in Switzerland and who deceived to make people believe he had compromising papers that he didn’t actually have. For both, the PP’s finance man is lying, and that’s why the so-called Operation Kitchen is an invention. There was “no illegal operation, political or police” against Bárcenas, much less one mounted by one of their own, former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, whom Cospedal defined as a “straightforward and upright person who has suffered a lot.”
As a child, on a day like this, every year at school I would paint a photocopy with Sant Jordi, Saint George in my land. Every year I would change the color of the dragon so as not to get bored. Then I would write stories for the saint, destinies, love affairs. Years later I dreamed this
Finally, the day has come. After wanting to sign for so long. After so many times I had been told what Sant Jordi would be like. After so many days in which I had walked in previous editions as a reader… Today I found myself sitting in front of
The bad omens did not come true on “my first Sant Jordi as a signatory”. No passerby appeared with the original manuscript of their hypothetical book for me to take a look at. There were no children touching copies, and if there were, they were welcome. And
The first time I participated in Sant Jordi, I did so without expectations and with a certain feeling of smallness. I was 30 years old, had a published saga that my friends believed in more than I did, and a terrible vertigo that barely allowed me to look beyond my feet.
Sant Jordi is a large public square, where philosophy should be, in the agora, where Socrates began it, with a hopeful message for people. And that’s why I’m grateful that after having won the Josep Pla award –with Anatomia de
“We are not the best in the world,” a green-eyed woman told me at the last minute, while I was signing her book. It’s my first Sant Jordi and tiredness is already falling on me, languidly, like rain, the weight of the dragon crushing my shoulders and eyes. I have lifted the
Alfonso Gómez, until now responsible for Telefónica Hispanoamérica’s businesses, will be the new CEO of Movistar+ replacing Daniel Domenjó, who was one of Marc Murtra’s first hires at the company.