On August 12th, millions of citizens mobilized to witness and experience a historic moment: the total eclipse. The Moon came between the Sun and our planet Earth, darkening it for just over a minute. The scientific, social, economic, and…
Love is one of the most beloved books by Theodor Kallifatides (Molaoi, Greece, 1938). However, it had never before been translated into either Spanish or Catalan. Starting September 16, thanks to Galaxia Gutenberg, readers of both languages will also be able to enjoy this contemporary classic that the author first published in Swedish in 1978. “I wrote it many years ago, but it still feels very heartfelt,” he confesses by phone to La Vanguardia days before this long-awaited publication arrives in bookstores. It is the first time he has spoken to a Spanish media outlet about the novel. “It is a book that I think ages well because, as far as love is concerned, for better or worse, human beings have not changed much, as we are still the same as in Greek tragedies,” he reflects. The novel follows Laki Sarris, a man about to turn forty, married to Lena and with a son, who falls madly in love with a woman much younger than him, Li. A relationship that will inevitably have dramatic consequences for his life.
Spain has an increasingly large lobbying club, a sector that the Government now wants to urgently regulate. The companies of the Ibex 35 have their own teams to try to influence the decision-making of politicians, and in recent years around a dozen companies have proliferated mainly in Madrid, dedicated to trying to influence laws for their clients, who are national and international companies. The winner is the one who has a better contact agenda in the ministries and Congress. The problem is that the activity does not have total transparency, which makes the Spanish sector an anomaly in Europe. The first Council of Ministers of the term approved a royal decree-law that must be ratified this month and that today does not have the necessary support.
The former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is going to submit a document to the court to certify that the jewels seized in his office by the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit of the Police were a gift from the Saudi royalty to his wife during his time as Prime Minister (2004-2011).
For more than a month, Ceuta has been focused on its border. On the people entering, those returning, those sleeping on the streets and beaches, on security devices, and on a humanitarian crisis that has disrupted the daily functioning of a city of just 19 square kilometers.
Regardless of the origin of the “violation of Spain’s territorial integrity” by more than 70,000 people coming from Morocco, the reality is that an undetermined number of them remain 40 days later (only 200 have been expelled according to what was stated…
Almost 40 days after the Ceuta incident, the three stages of crisis management – alert, response, and reconstruction – are being reordered. In the “alert” phase, Pedro Sánchez has announced the order to publish and declassify a dossier with all the situation and alert reports…
The Trampolín beach in Ceuta shrinks the soul. It moves and frightens. There, for 37 days, hundreds of men have been crammed into huts. A tasteless spot for Morocco’s image filmed in Ceuta. Fights are frequent. Saturday night’s ended worse than the one we witnessed yesterday, Sunday.
At least five people died after an Amazon cargo plane crashed off the runway after landing at Miami International Airport, authorities confirmed.
These days the metaphor of World War II bombs that resurface in the dried riverbeds of European rivers, drained by the climate crisis, is used. A projectile that has reached today without exploding, as a legacy of an era in which totalitarianism…