No pressure from Sheinbaum: the Xcaret Group itself has not wanted to see Ayuso at the Platino Awards gala

No pressure from Sheinbaum: the Xcaret Group itself has not wanted to see Ayuso at the Platino Awards gala

“Regarding the statement issued this morning by the Community of Madrid, WE CATEGORICALLY DENY having received any threats or instructions from the President of our country, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, or any official of the Government of Mexico regarding the holding of the Los Premios Platino Xcaret.” Not even carved in stone with a chisel would the denial be read more emphatically than the hotel group, the most important in the Riviera Maya and one of the largest in the country, has just issued a few minutes ago.

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Marta Vidal, Pere Ventura and Marc Pagès run for president of the DO Cava

Marta Vidal, Pere Ventura and Marc Pagès run for president of the DO Cava

Up to three candidates have applied so far (candidacies can be submitted until June 10) to preside over the DO Cava, succeeding Javier Pagés who has completed two terms. Once the 12 members of the new board are elected following yesterday’s elections, the presidency is expected to be decided on June 11. Marta Vidal made the announcement this morning, Friday, at the headquarters of the sector’s employers’ association in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, the Associació d’Elaboradors de Cava (Aecava), and later presented it to the staff of her cellars based in Vilobí del Penedès and to her grape suppliers. If she obtains enough votes, she will become the first woman to preside over the DO Cava since its founding in 1972.

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The Government admits the infiltration of mossos in a teachers' assembly

The Government admits the infiltration of mossos in a teachers’ assembly

The educational community and a large part of the parliamentary groups of the Parliament of Catalonia are at war over the infiltration of two Mossos d’Esquadra agents in a teachers’ assembly held on Wednesday. Initially, the force, through its X account, limited itself to saying that it works to “guarantee the free right of assembly and demonstration” and that it carries out its functions and responsibilities “always in accordance with current legislation and according to the competencies assigned to it.” Later, from the general directorate of the Catalan police, they issued a statement arguing that the General Commissariat of Information has specific information-gathering functions assigned by law, implicitly acknowledging the presence of the agents at the meeting.

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Labour admits defeat in Scotland and Wales and Starmer refuses to resign over the debacle

Labour admits defeat in Scotland and Wales and Starmer refuses to resign over the debacle

“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions but ones that are common and no one dies from.

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Ayuso cancels her trip to Mexico after denouncing a “boycott” by Sheinbaum at the Platino awards

Ayuso cancels her trip to Mexico after denouncing a “boycott” by Sheinbaum at the Platino awards

The political and diplomatic war unleashed around Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s institutional trip to Mexico has entered uncharted territory after the Community of Madrid issued a harsh official statement directly accusing Claudia Sheinbaum’s government of trying to sabotage the presence of the Madrid president at the Platino awards and of having caused, through their pressures, the early cancellation of part of the trip’s agenda. This decision became known just a few hours after the Madrid opposition accused her of having taken a “paid vacation” in Riviera Maya, after clearing her official agenda for 48 hours to travel to the Mexican tourist area.

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Two Civil Guards die in Huelva in the chase of a drug speedboat

Two Civil Guards die in Huelva in the chase of a drug speedboat

Andalusia, this time its waters of Huelva, has once again been the scene of a tragedy that strikes the Civil Guard. On the day the institution celebrated the largest cocaine seizure so far in the world, two of its men, a captain and a civil guard, aged 54 and 55, died when their Maritime Service vessels, the patrol boat Rio Antas and a rigid inflatable boat of the corps in which the two deceased were traveling, collided while trying to cut off the passage to a drug-running boat. The rigid inflatable boat is 12 meters long and has three engines, similar in structure, but much larger and faster than the zodiac run over by a drug-running boat in Barbate, in February 2024, in which two civil guards died.

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Bubble buses to go from the 'Hondius' to the plane: passengers seated in ‘zig-zag’ and separated by two meters

Bubble buses to go from the ‘Hondius’ to the plane: passengers seated in ‘zig-zag’ and separated by two meters

The 147 passengers of the Hondius cruise ship, which is heading to the Canary Islands after a hantavirus outbreak was detected, will disembark next Sunday at sea in groups of no more than five people and by nationality. From the cruise ship, they will transfer to some zodiacs arranged by the shipowner and from there they will head to the dock. Specifically, they will be transferred to a specific area of the port of Granadilla “that meets the highest biological containment measures.” Their luggage will be grouped by nationality and disinfected by the ship’s crew before disembarkation, within the protocol established by Foreign Health. If any passenger shows symptoms before arrival, they will disembark first to be referred to the isolation unit of the Hospital de la Candelaria and their luggage will be managed by the shipping company. They would never reach land. After them, close contacts will disembark grouped by nationalities.

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