The Pope has not come to Spain to play the violin. It will not be a trip with a vanilla ice cream flavor. The first day confirms this. Leo XIV is not a man with his foot on the brake, chosen by the conclave to calm the President of the United States, to temper the great…
When the Pope scheduled the official visit that began yesterday in Spain, he could hardly imagine the great climate of polarization that exists in the country’s political life. Since Pedro Sánchez’s investiture, the confrontation situation resembles a pressure cooker that emits a…
Leo XIV makes a strong impression and wastes no time. As soon as he set foot on Spanish soil, he launched a vigorous and forceful message, addressed to both society and the political class, against tension, which he referred to as “dark nights”. The Pontiff did not mince words in his first speech: “I come to encourage and inspire a deeper reconciliation and cooperation among the different forces of this nation,” he told those present. “Your own history suggests that it is not the culture of confrontation, but that of encounter, which generates stability and prosperity,” he admonished the politicians.
That Primavera Sound is a festival different from the rest is demonstrated by things like what happened this Saturday, when Olivia Rodrigo surprisingly announced her presence at the festival just a few, few weeks after performing at the Grec festival, “the most beautiful stage I’ve ever played on,” as the Californian artist stated.
Italian authorities have arrested seven people in the southern province of Foggia, accused of being part of a criminal network dedicated to robbing ATMs using explosives at several banks.
Surrounded by members, emblems, and fan club members, Florentino Pérez’s last campaign event before the elections was marked by a full-frontal attack against his rival, Enrique Riquelme, whom he tried to discredit by all means in an extremely harsh speech. Without constantly mentioning him, but with direct references to his candidacy, Pérez built his intervention on the denials regarding his rival’s signings. “We campaign from the truth. Others prefer lies and hoaxes” and criticized that “a televised hoax is launched and then denied” by those involved.
Work emails, family chats, groups of friends organizing trips, birthdays, gatherings. To that hodgepodge of interactions that force one to look at the mobile screen is added, especially for young people, another tie to the digital world: keeping an actively stimulating conversation, exuding enough charisma and charm, to seduce —or show interest in— the person one wants to approach. Dating in these times, for many, represents another type of virtual slavery.
The impact of the DANA of October 29 is not only measured in mud, but in an unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the catastrophe affected more than 54.000 companies and jeopardized the livelihood of more than 190.000 workers affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10.000 local shops and businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero requires a specialized workforce that the current market cannot cover.
Amid great anticipation, in true American style, including a speech by the mayor and a marching band, the Spanish national team’s expedition landed on Friday night in Chattanooga, a beautiful town located in the southeast of the state of Tennessee, where Luis de la Fuente and his team will establish their base camp throughout the first phase of the World Cup. “A team takes off. A country flies”, read the personalized Airbus 350-Next that transported ‘La Roja’ from Rosalía de Castro airport, in Santiago de Compostela, to Chattanooga, after a stopover in Nashville.
Maturity doesn’t start when your back hurts. Not even when you have to enlarge the font on your phone because you can’t see a thing, or when you buy a hideous jacket for the number of pockets it has. True maturity begins the day a shopping cart…