The United States Army liberated the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp 81 years ago today, where the Nazis murdered about 90,000 people through forced labor in quarries, starvation, torture, gas chambers, or experiments with direct phenol injections into the heart.
Called by all the unions of Valencian Education, including those close to the PP, and supported by federations of families of students, thousands of people, shouting “councilor resignation,” have joined a large demonstration to demand salary, labor, and working condition improvements for a group that has been on indefinite strike for eleven days. In the previous demonstration, held on Friday, May 15, more than 35,000 people took to the streets, according to data from the Government Delegation, making it the most significant public mobilization since those called due to the effects of the dana tragedy.
Unable to shoot until the 116th minute. Unable to score. Unable to lead his team to the title. Unable to shine after a World Cup in which he had always walked the edge of the impossible. Don’t cry for him, Argentina, because he has given you everything. Don’t cry for him because he has been the flag of a team that has survived beyond the imaginable. Don’t cry because at 39 years old he leaves the United States World Cup with eight goals, four assists, and a third final in six appearances. Leo Messi, the greatest player of all time, gave in during extra time, as in 2014 at Maracanã against Germany. Not even his incredible longevity managed to beat an unbeatable champion. A Spain that shut down Mbappé and did the same to Messi.
Laura Autonell (Taradell, 1963) had been writing all her life, like many people, without many pretensions. But six years ago her husband passed away and her priorities changed: “The hours I would have spent with him I have dedicated to writing, I have filled his absence with stories. It’s as if I had remarried, but to literature,” she says, because from that loss first came a self-published novel, Un polsim de sal, and recently a novel that in a few weeks has established itself among the bestsellers thanks to word of mouth, La Llibreria de les Hores Mortes (Columna), alongside authors like Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, Gil Pratsobrerroca, Siri Hustvedt or even Homer himself with the new Catalan translation of his Odyssey.
The Government of Catalonia has approved in this Tuesday’s Executive Council the awarding of the Gold Medal of the Generalitat to chef Ferran Adrià (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1962) and to the physicist and director of the ALBA Synchrotron Caterina Biscari (Sicily, 1957). With this award, Salvador Illa’s Executive wants to recognize two “extraordinary” careers that have “projected Catalonia into the world” in the fields of gastronomy, innovation, and science.
Nineteen months of investigation into former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will presumably be revealed today. The judge of the National Court, in charge of the Plus Ultra case, has lifted the secrecy of the file once the most important procedure, the search of the former leader’s official office, has been carried out. From this Monday, the parties involved in the process, including popular accusations, will have access to the case and it will be inevitable that details of the investigation become known.
Pedro Sánchez has chosen the path of empathy to face Ceuta Day, a date that this year is hardly festive for its population. With the city still absorbing the impact of the migratory avalanche at the end of July and the tension in its streets running high, the President of the Government has opted for a message of support and self-criticism. He has acknowledged that, until normality is restored, for part of the people of Ceuta the State’s response remains insufficient. And he did so barely 24 hours after the Council of Ministers gave the green light to a financial lifeline of 309 million euros.
The Supreme Court has annulled the single registration procedure for short-term rentals that are intended to be advertised through digital platforms, considering that the State lacks the authority to regulate it. Specifically, it argues that it establishes a regulation of a national registry that overlaps with the regional registries for the registration of tourist rentals.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just endorsed the Amnesty law for people convicted, prosecuted, and charged for the secessionist process of Catalonia, the most unique declaration of independence in the history of Europe, perhaps of the entire planet,…
It has long been that sending a postcard during the summer holidays is a habit reserved for the most nostalgic. Handwritten love letters now mostly belong to the realm of fiction, and more and more companies offer to receive bills electronically instead of in the mailbox. At the same time, the rise of e-commerce has transformed the postal business to an unprecedented extent: for the first time in history, in Spain more packages than letters are sent through these services. This is shown by the data from a report published this Wednesday by the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC).
