The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will finally appear before the Plenary of the Congress on September 3 to report on the Government’s management of the migration crisis in Ceuta, following the serious incidents recorded since July 30. The setting of the date culminates an undisguised standoff in the Board of Spokespersons, where the initial intention of La Moncloa — which requested to set the appearance for the 9th — clashed with the pressure from several parliamentary groups, led by the PNV. Jeltzale sources have demanded that the meeting be “immediate” and “without the need to reschedule already planned appearances,” once the “situation of interest for national security” in the autonomous city was declared.

Imad Maarmi, a 35-year-old Algerian, is in a limbo called the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) of Ceuta. After being intercepted up to 12 times by the Civil Guard or the Moroccan Navy when trying to swim across the Tarajal border breakwater, he managed to set foot on the shore of the autonomous city last July 10. Three weeks before the mass crossing. At that time, the CETI was not yet overcrowded. Nor was Ceuta in chaos.

The flood of ongoing legal cases against the political and family environment of Pedro Sánchez – from his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, to the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the last two secretaries of organization of the PSOE, the former minister José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán – keeps all Government action overshadowed and increases political pressure from both the opposition and the partners and allies of the investiture. But the head of the Executive insists on contrasting his management with the political, media, and judicial “noise” in which he is increasingly involved. He already argued last Wednesday from Rome, after meeting with the Pope, that this whole succession of open investigations, in his opinion, “does not at all challenge” the Government’s action in these eight years of mandate, which he also intends to push forward until the legislature is exhausted.

The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the National Court has rejected the urgent precautionary measure to suspend the occupation of the port of Ceuta to install a thousand beds for migrants.

The leader of Junts Carles Puigdemont awaits the ruling to be announced this Thursday from the European justice system regarding the amnesty to reactivate his return to Spain in the courts. However, whatever the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) says, the expectation is that the return of the former president of the Generalitat will still have to wait a few months. According to legal sources, the national arrest warrant against him will not be revoked until the Constitutional Court (TC) rules, presumably in October, on the appeal he filed against the decision of the Supreme Court (TS) judge Pablo Llarena not to apply the amnesty to him.

The feared Tren de Aragua gang, which was born in a Venezuelan prison, has transformed the type of crime in Chile, where it has accumulated a long list of crimes. The one that most evidences the power of the organization; the kidnapping and murder of a Venezuelan opponent who was found buried under a layer of cement. Not only because of the cruelty, but because of the diplomatic crisis it opened between countries. Cells of the Mara Salvatrucha, with a historic presence in El Salvador, have sought new alliances in Mexico, causing a serious threat on the southern border. The expansion strategy of the Primeiro Comando da Capital of Brazil is turning the group into the most dangerous in all of South America, like a parallel power within the States. These criminal actors have demonstrated their evident capacity to cross borders and corrupt institutions in Latin America. But they aspire to more. To make the definitive leap to Europe, taking advantage of migration routes. And they see in Spain, which perceives the phenomenon with maximum alert, an opportunity to start, although the National Police intends to make it difficult for them.