A letter with a death threat and two 9-millimeter caliber bullets in the envelope. The message could not be more forceful. Even in the digital age, there is a difference between a cold email and a physical package with two real bullets. The warning gains greater credibility. The mobsters prefer the classic.
Old age is changing rapidly as citizens (tens of thousands, being part of the so-called baby boom) who dominate, or at least use technology daily and fluently, enter this stage of life, having had direct contact with it in their work and personal environment.
The silver chairs of the Cambra de Barcelona continue to generate controversy, even after the plenary of the entity approved this controversial measure on Thursday. The parliamentary groups of the Comuns and the CUP jointly submitted a request yesterday for an opinion from the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries on various articles of the future Cambres law, a text that has been stalled for more than a decade without reaching the Parlament. The regulation, a proposal prepared by the chambers themselves, was supposed to be voted on in the hemicycle next Wednesday, but this request will clearly delay the process again until September.
The slow digestion of the Amnesty law has received a European tonic this week, an herbal liqueur from Luxembourg. An unequivocal ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has endorsed the law approved by the Congress of Deputies on May 20, 2024, and sealed by the Spanish Constitutional Court on June 26, 2025.
The same week that the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the central Government of favoring Catalonia with the proposed financing model, the real data shows that the State invested 2.4 times more in Madrid than in Catalonia last year. The Catalan community received 8.6% of all the investment that the State executed in the country in 2025 and that can be regionalized by autonomous communities, as La Vanguardia revealed yesterday, with official data from the IGAE of the Ministry of Finance.
Far from our land, we remain passionate and superstitious people, full of rituals. Of senseless rites. At home, we believe that winning depends on the flag being next to the TV in the same position it was on the first day. That one of the dozen of us who gather to…
Strong bonds: common language, the Simeone dynasty, the grievances of the Malvinas and Gibraltar islands
Everyone is talking about the photograph in which a twenty-something Leo Messi and a Lamine Yamal just a few months old appear together, taken almost 20 years ago. The Argentine has become the best footballer in history; the Catalan, the star of Barça and the Spanish national team. Both will compete this Sunday for the World Cup. The coincidence is so incredible that it has generated unprecedented attention. The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, thought it was the work of artificial intelligence, and Jimmy Fallon, on ‘The Tonight Show’, dedicated his famous monologue to it.
16 years and a week ago Andrés Iniesta (Fuentealbilla, 1984) was the living image of happiness. He was sitting in seat D, row 12 of a charter that had departed from Johannesburg bound for Madrid. He was wearing the Spanish national team jersey with the number 6 on the back. And he was recounting, still fresh in his memory, the play of the goal that allowed La Roja to enter the club of world champions. Seven hours had passed since the moment and the man from La Mancha had still not seen his goal replayed. Unthinkable nowadays, where everything moves at the speed of light, but possible then. Iniesta now speaks to La Vanguardia from Dubai, where he is about to start the season with his first team as a coach, Gulf FC of the United Arab Emirates. From there he recalls his memories of 2010 and projects his analysis for this Sunday’s final.
La FIFA organized an event with fans on Eleventh Avenue in New York, touching the Hudson River. And although his presence was not announced, Leo Messi appeared there accompanied by Lionel Scaloni and goalkeeper Dibu Martínez. Rodri and Luis de la Fuente joined the three of them. There, less than 48 hours before the final, the captain of Argentina showered praise on Lamine Yamal. “Lamine is a great player, he is a world reference at 19 years old,” said the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner.