The Community of Madrid lifted the suspension of the Vallecas Stadium this Tuesday after analyzing the second audit commissioned by the regional Government to check the condition of the facilities, so it will be able to play again.
One month before the Catalan elections that brought him to power, the then PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, presented his plans for when he would take the reins of the Govern at a crowded conference. There he promised to lead the “third great transformation of Catalonia” through good management, to recover excellence in public services and leave behind “a lost decade” in the ideological battle of the procés. Yesterday, the president revisited that conference with a track record of two years of management that few approve of, but which he strove to present as successful. At the same time, he warned of those times when Catalonia was presented as the “project of a part” and of “a world heading towards a worrying dehumanization” in which “extremely divisive and confrontational politics” predominates.
Convulsion in the markets. Doubts about whether it would be appropriate to halt the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) given its growing power and influence, combined with the surge in oil prices near $110 due to disruptions in the Arabian Peninsula, along with speculation that the Federal Reserve (Fed) might be forced to raise interest rates this week, have shaken trading this Monday, first in Europe, then on Wall Street.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has announced that Madrid will consider the “challenge” of applying to host the Olympic Games and has assured that there is interest from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the capital.
National Police officers have arrested a pregnant woman at Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas Airport who tried to smuggle 69 cocaine pellets hidden inside her body.
The Metro Madrid service on line 9, between the Puerta de Arganda and Sainz de Baranda stations, has been interrupted since early morning due to technical reasons.
Vicent M. Garcés (Liria, 1946) lived through the last days of Salvador Allende’s government and the arrival of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship from the inside. His brother Joan Enric, political advisor to the Chilean president, was with him at La Moneda during those decisive hours. Garcés managed to leave the country and, a year later, wrote clandestinely Chile. Analysis of the First Year of Military Dictatorship (1973-1974), a book that aimed to document the repression and dismantle the narrative imposed by the Military Junta. Published under the pseudonym Pablo Santillana, its distribution was cut short by repression. More than fifty years later, the work has been reissued in Chile and now returns to València. In this interview, conducted remotely on Friday, Garcés recalls that experience, explains how the book was born, and reflects on the lessons the 1973 coup left for today’s democracies.
A few meters from the Town Hall square of València and very close to the Plaza de Toros and the North Station, is the Pelayo trinquet, considered the cathedral of Valencian pilota. “It is almost a miracle that it has not been a victim, like many other trinquets, of urban growth and speculation,” says Víctor Agulló, a sociologist specialized in the Sociology of Sport. In fact, it is the only space dedicated to pilota that survives in the city, besides the most modern one located at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). In the villages, it is different.
“It may be a formality, but it is evident that the candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat will be the person who is here holding the Speakership of the Compromís group, as it could not be otherwise.” With this firmness, the spokesperson in the Valencian Courts of the coalition, Joan Baldoví, expressed himself this Monday when asked about the Compromís candidacy in next year’s regional elections.
BBC Studios has exclusively acquired the international adaptation rights of ‘La gran cita’, the 3Cat format presented by the Badalona influencer Aida Domènech, known as Dulceida. The agreement will allow the BBC’s commercial subsidiary to distribute, develop, and produce adaptations of the program in various markets around the world. According to 3Cat, this is the first time that BBC Studios has acquired the adaptation rights of a format created by a Spanish channel and originally developed in Catalan.
