I experienced a déjà-vu this weekend when Lionel Scaloni tried to downplay the historical tension of the semifinal between Argentina and England. I had a flashback to an interview I did 40 years ago with Diego Maradona before another Argentina-England in a World Cup, the one with “the hand…
On March 7, 1999, just four days after delivering the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner, Stanley Kubrick died in his sleep from a myocardial infarction. His sudden death, the decade that had passed since his previous film (Full Metal Jacket, 1987), and the morbid curiosity that Hollywood’s fashionable couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, starred in the posthumous film, gave the premiere a certain testamentary aura that exponentially raised expectations. Critics and audiences disagreed. A stroke of genius? A blunder? Or was the message simply not understood? Be that as it may, the film has aged remarkably well, features some memorable scenes, and, above all, contains not one but two succulent parties, two distorting mirrors of the same elite.
The World Cup final has prompted several major chains to change their hours for this Sunday to allow their employees to watch the match between Spain and Argentina. El Corte Inglés, Inditex stores, and Carrefour will be some of those that will close their open stores earlier on a day that could be historic.
“No, the elderly are not a big expense. Longevity is an investment, these people have contributed throughout their working life and will continue to contribute from 65 onwards. And even if at 80 or 85 they have dependency, they will also continue contributing, because the services they need generate economic and social return.” This is how emphatically Pedro Cano, the first general director of the Gent Gran of the Generalitat de Catalunya, expresses the great importance of the senior group in our society.
“They are not good results for us,” María Jesús Montero admitted tonight, after personally congratulating Juanma Moreno Bonilla. “The citizens place us in the opposition,” the socialist candidate acknowledged, who showed no signs of giving up and expressed her commitment to “continue working for Andalusia.”
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, speaks with La Vanguardia one day after chairing the meeting between her department and the unions that have been holding a standoff in the streets for two months. Niubó defends the agreement, claiming that never before had 2 billion euros been put on the table for educational improvements. She believes there is room for agreements within it and assures that the Government will not leave the table until it is achieved.
The PSOE leadership faces the final stretch of the electoral campaign in Andalusia just as it began: calling for a “massive last-minute mobilization” of progressive voters and the “concentration” of the left-wing vote on the ballot led by María Jesús Montero as the only “useful vote” to be able to remove Juanma Moreno Bonilla from the presidency of the Junta.
This has been a week of clarification. Two credible surveys, the one published by La Vanguardia in two installments (Sunday and Monday), and the one released by the newspaper El País on Monday, surveys conducted by the companies Ipsos and 40dB, indicate that the right is clearly going for…
At 94 years old, Raúl Castro has to play hide and seek.
The possibility of a motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez is once again gaining prominence in the political debate, but the difficulties in forming an alternative majority remain enormous. This is the view of Lola García, deputy director of La Vanguardia, who argues that neither Junts nor the PNV currently find an easy way out of the current situation. “What would interest them is for the current Government to be stronger and more solid, able to present budgets and not be harassed by corruption cases,” she said. In her opinion, the alternative of an Executive led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo with Vox as part of the equation is also not attractive to them.