When Carlos Alberto helped his wife, Yorladis, climb the last steps of the staircase leading to the attic, the dirty water was ahead of them. With them was Carmen, an elderly woman Yorladis had been caring for for months. On the lower floors of that house, the water level exceeded two and a half meters. In a matter of minutes, the DANA flood violently breached the privacy of thousands of homes like this one.
This is just football, but enough because football is everything. It is politics, sociology, and economics. It explains a society, the anesthesia, it unites and divides us, it drives us to put our arms in the trash and find the witch’s mirror, the one that tells us we are the most handsome, stupid, and generous, but, at the same time, that there are others just as handsome, stupid, and generous. And also, when the case arises, racist, irresponsible, and cruel. Belonging to a club, to a national team, these days defines us, integrates us, prevents us from answering unanswerable questions, places us in rituals and calendars tied to curiosity, to the amazement of the game as a life lesson, its spectacularization.
Amid applause from volunteers and residents of the municipalities that have welcomed them these days. This is how the return home began for the 29,000 people evacuated from 15 municipalities in Madrid and Ávila who yesterday received the good news that the fire is no longer a threat to their lives or their homes.
The new assault on the Ceuta border had been announced so far in advance that everything suggested that what had happened other times would occur: that more journalists than immigrants would gather there. And yet, it did not happen exactly like that. Morocco made a show of force and…
The organization led by Santos Cerdán orchestrated to destroy judicial cases had a dual approach. On one hand, to look for dirt on investigators of matters affecting the PSOE or the environment of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. And on the other, as a counterattack, to look for scandals or irregularities of their political rivals, especially the Popular Party.
It is unclear whether it slipped out – it seems the announcement was planned for this Tuesday, during the welcome to the new agents of the Urban Guard – or if the mayor wanted to respond preventively to the reprimand that shortly after, in a press conference, came from the Junts bench regarding the use of bladed weapons in Barcelona. Jaume Collboni took advantage of a housing event this Monday (see the previous page) to announce that all local police vehicles will carry a metal detector shovel in the trunk. This will happen starting next year, when the entire fleet of 184 cars is scheduled to be renewed for about 20 million euros.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have raised the number of confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak declared in the east of the country on May 15 to 488, including 86 deaths, and warned of “rapid and continued community transmission.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping may have been formal in his welcome to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, this Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. However, he chose to call for “an immediate cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East,” noting that their reactivation would be “even more serious.” At the end of their meeting, both leaders signed a joint declaration in favor of “a multipolar world.” Otherwise, according to them, the current “disregard for international legality” and global institutions leads us to “the law of the jungle.”
The Israeli military deployment during the war with Iran was not limited to its own borders. According to a CNN exclusive, Tel Aviv covertly deployed troops and intelligence equipment in southern Azerbaijan. According to sources cited by the American media, the soldiers were mobilized near the Iranian border, less than 100 kilometers from the Persian city of Tabriz, which was heavily bombed during the month and a half of conflict.
“We are very calm,” assures Carlota Pi, co-founder and CEO of Holaluz. With her captivating smile, the businesswoman staunchly defends the company’s innocence regarding the Government’s disqualification file. Although the content is confidential, industry sources say it has been opened due to possible non-payments by Holaluz to energy distributors (Iberdrola, Endesa, Naturgy), who demand energy retailers to pay “tolls” for using their networks.
