Workers from the Margarida Xirgu and Eugeni d’Ors institutes in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès) gathered this Monday outside these centers to reject the Government’s plan to deploy plainclothes Mossos d’Esquadra to reduce conflict.
The Spanish-Mexican philosopher Carissa Véliz burst onto the public debate in 2020 with her book Privacy Is Power (Debate), in which she detailed how governments and companies continuously obtain data from us in a surveillance society. Next June she will publish Prophecy (Debate), which the author herself defines as “a reflection on the uses and abuses of prediction, from the Oracle of Delphi to artificial intelligence, because although the technology is very different, the political role it is playing is actually very similar.”
FC Barcelona celebrated, on the night of this past Wednesday, their great season with a party at the Casanova Beach Club in Castelldefels. An event that brought together many people at the doors of the venue who wanted to greet the team’s footballers, the vast majority accompanied by their partners.
Koldo García wanted to become yesterday the protector and squire of his former boss, José Luis Ábalos, during his interrogation as an accused in the trial held at the Supreme Court for the so-called mask case. The former advisor took on as his own the actions that were for the former Minister of Transport because, as he said, “he will always be grateful” for appointing him as his personal advisor after meeting him during the PSOE primaries in 2017, after which Pedro Sánchez was proclaimed secretary general.
The Godmar rectory, an architectural complex adjacent to the old church of Sant Sadurní, originally from the 13th century, restored in the 19th century and converted into a space for meetings and conventions, was the setting last Wednesday night for the final farewell to the until now…
The Ibex 35 tries this Tuesday to hold on to 20,000 points after four consecutive sessions of declines and on a day again marked by tension between the United States and Iran. The Spanish benchmark started practically flat, with a slight advance of 0.02%, up to 19,985 points, after having lost 0.87% yesterday and saying goodbye to the historic closing high of 20,300 points that it reached just at the beginning of this August.
ACS has undertaken an accelerated placement of shares in the market to raise around 1.8 billion euros to finance its growth, with the two main shareholders, Florentino Pérez and Criteria, contributing resources.
Since July 30, when more than 70,000 people entered Ceuta irregularly, a dramatic humanitarian situation has been created and maintained over time, with thousands of people living in extremely precarious conditions and without any dignified and appropriate reception by the Spanish State, which has left thousands of people living in a “legal vacuum,” exposed to sexual violence and without adequate shelter, food, or sanitation for almost three weeks.” These are the two conclusions of an urgent report carried out on the ground by the human rights NGO Human Rights Watch.
End of an era for Atrápalo. The Ávoris group, owned by Barceló, announced this Thursday an agreement to buy 100% of the online travel and leisure platform. The operation is subject to approval by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) and is part of the hotel company’s growth strategy to strengthen its position in the online travel agency business. Neither party has made the purchase amount public.
A miner has lost his life this morning in a work accident inside the potash mine of Cabanasses de Súria, in Bages, according to the Mossos d’Esquadra. The victim was a resident of Sant Martí de Torruella and was 26 years old. Although the circumstances in which the death occurred are being investigated, the main hypothesis is that it was due to a rockfall inside the mine. In addition to the young man who died, another worker was injured in the accident, although his life is not feared to be in danger.
