The car of Judge José Luis Calama on which the investigation, indictment, against José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is based includes a detailed account of the operation of a scheme that wanted to obtain a public loan to save a small airline using for this…
Jordi Oliveras, director of the Puig de les Basses prison (Figueres, Girona), has resigned from his position and the Department of Justice has announced that in the coming days it will appoint the person who will take over his role. Sources from the Ministry have said that the head of this penitentiary center offered his resignation to the Secretary of Penal Measures and Reintegration a few days ago, and now his resignation has been made effective.
The summers? –answers Otilia with a slight gesture of surprise, sitting on a bench at the tremendously historic nougat and horchata shop Planelles Donat in Barcelona–, well, the summers were always like the winters, working, attending to customers. Yes, well, in winter you mainly sell nougats and in summer mainly horchatas, but…”.
Pedro Sánchez has chosen the path of empathy to face Ceuta Day, a date that this year is hardly festive for its population. With the city still absorbing the impact of the migratory avalanche at the end of July and the tension in its streets running high, the President of the Government has opted for a message of support and self-criticism. He has acknowledged that, until normality is restored, for part of the people of Ceuta the State’s response remains insufficient. And he did so barely 24 hours after the Council of Ministers gave the green light to a financial lifeline of 309 million euros.
The appearance of Trampolín beach, where hundreds of immigrants had settled in inhumane conditions after refusing to leave Ceuta, was that of a camp where people were beginning to put down roots. Sub-Saharan Africans setting up stalls with some food, tobacco, or sneakers that once belonged to the 141 people who lost their lives in the fateful mass crossing. There were Moroccans building a kind of mosque with milk cartons or improvising barbershops. Huts, from both groups, that were taking shape beyond the initial reeds that supported them. As if all of them, being only estimated figures for the administrations, assumed that their life on the sand was going to be long. Until yesterday, 21 days after the avalanche, when with a late stroke they ceased to be invisible. No matter how many photos on newspaper front pages they have dominated.
On Sunday, which according to etymology is the day of the Lord, like all the others, in ancient Rome it was the day dedicated to the Sun. History is made of analogies that sometimes become equivalences. So, having reached the equinox of the campaign in Andalusia, it is fitting…
I interviewed Nelson Mandela in May 1994, a few days after his inauguration as the first democratic president of South Africa. He gave me some news. That he would serve one term and, at 80 years old, retire from politics. That is how it was. He did not fall into the temptation of staying forever in…
The Bombers of the Generalitat are working this Wednesday afternoon to extinguish another fire burning intensely in Sant Quirze Safaja (Moianès) with 18 ground units and 3 aerial units. According to provisional data from the Agents Rurals, who are working on the causes of the incident, the fire affects an approximate area of about 70 hectares.
The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested a 23-year-old man, with an arrest warrant issued by a court in Vigo, after rescuing him while he was swimming offshore in front of the beaches of Barcelona, ignoring the instructions of Maritime Rescue.
The great obsession of Beniamin Netanyahu for more than two decades hangs by a thread. Israel managed to convince Donald Trump to embark on a war against Iran, which it considers its greatest existential threat, and which could be resolved with an agreement in a matter of days.