Jódar, we have to wait a bit: Fils blocks his way to the Godó final
As if no time had passed, how playful chance is, the RCTB parish evokes the past with encouragement.
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Oh Cholo, how difficult it is to be a favorite
Accustomed to the righteous diatribes, like the one that said Atleti was the team of the people –something that no one has believed for a long time due to the squad and the checkbook to build it–, the favorite’s suit turned against Cholo. Comfortable in guerrilla warfare, in
With the power of Zubieta, Real Sociedad wins the Cup and awakens Atlético
Pablo Marín, the boy from Logroño whose first football memories are playing the drum and trumpet in the stands watching his father play, arrived at Zubieta at 13 years old and was a ball boy in the 2021 semi-final, and yesterday, in an exciting and nail-biting final, he gave Real Sociedad their third Copa del Rey title. A penalty shootout that featured another hero, Unai Marrero, who had already saved a penalty in the League last season against Kylian Mbappé and was key in the round of 16 against Osasuna this season. He did the same against shots from Sörloth and Julián Álvarez. A metaphor for an ill-fated final for Atlético, always behind, from the first breath to the last. It’s a matter of rewinding (2-2, 3-4 en penaltis).
Spaniards against democracy
A few weeks ago, I was talking to an informed, intelligent, and politically influential person here in Spain about the global battle that defines our times, democracy versus authoritarianism. His/Her summary of the situation: “The lefts must unite.” No
Trump makes the Pope shine
Pope Leo XIV was approaching his first year of pontificate, which he will complete next May, going largely unnoticed in the international sphere as a global reference for all Catholics. The conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and Donald Trump’s broadsides did not generate
The wealth tax must be applied without geographical exemptions
Gabriel Zucman, former academic at the University of California (Berkeley), is director of the International Tax Observatory in Paris. He is the ideologue behind the 2% global minimum tax on the ultra-rich with assets exceeding $1 billion, which would affect 3,000 people worldwide. This interview took place on the occasion of the Global Progressive Mobilisation, which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona.
Barcelona, key in the Estée-Puig merger
With the permission of Trump, Khamenei and the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations for a possible merger between the American giant Estée Lauder and the Catalan multinational Puig are moving forward. Beyond geopolitical tensions, the operation “makes sense
The temptation is called Sílvia Orriols
Sílvia Orriols has turned the Parliament chamber into her most effective set. She does not participate in committees and disappears when other groups question the Government. They don’t interest her. Orriols makes the most of her five minutes of confrontation with the President of the Generalitat and is
Hungarian Rhapsody in Barcelona
Rhapsody is a ‘stitched song’: epic poems assembled in ancient Greece, popular airs and intertwined melodies, free music that united seemingly unrelated themes in Romanticism. The Hungarian musician Franz Liszt composed some famous rhapsodies. A Hungarian patriot of German origin -in Central Europe, identities formed a very complex mosaic- Liszt wanted to pay homage to Hungarian popular music with about twenty rhapsodies. Hungarian has been the music this week.
Macron announces the death of a French UN soldier in Lebanon and points to Hezbollah
A French soldier from the UN force deployed in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed this Saturday and three other soldiers were injured -two of them very seriously- in an attack recorded in the south of that country which President Emmanuel Macron attributed to Hezbollah. Hours later, this pro-Iranian Shiite militia issued a statement denying any involvement in the ambush against the blue helmet contingent, which sparked all kinds of speculation.