“Y ya lo ves, y ya lo ves, el que no salta es un inglés”. Of all the anthems of the Argentine fans, that was the real hit at Arrowhead, the stadium of the Kansas City Chiefs, before, during, and at the end of the quarterfinal match against Switzerland. It was no less.
There are matches that smell of history, that exude rivalry, that are destined to become myths and that will be forever embedded in individual and collective memory. Today’s England-Argentina semifinal in Atlanta is not just another match. Neither for one side nor the other because it directly appeals to their identity. For both, it is the challenge of the great symbol. For the Albiceleste, facing the English refers to avenging national and nationalist wounds, and that is how they sing it – fans and players, by the way. For the Three Lions, the memory of what happened in 1986 at the Azteca is an affront, because of the cheating on the first goal, because of the humiliation of the second.
Let’s imagine that you are an unaffiliated citizen. That you are neither one side nor the other and you face the sentence that condemns the brother of the Prime Minister for malfeasance. And you hear how some (those in power) say that the ruling is a “barbarity,” that it condemns…
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, reviews a difficult political term marked by various judicial cases affecting the PSOE or its family environment and by the lack of agreements that have prevented the approval of the planned housing decree and have moved away the possibility of new budgets.
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 judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has blocked the accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero while investigating the flow of money that he could have received for his influences among other things so that the Government approved the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra. Specifically, he has agreed to block the balances of his accounts up to the limit of 490,780 euros, which is the amount received from the company Análisis Relevante, whose administrator is his friend and also investigated Julio Martínez Martínez.
Unprecedented deployment to evacuate the 151 people from the Hondius cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak has originated, and to prevent this virus from spreading throughout Tenerife and the rest of Spanish territory. Under the coordination of Spain, the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, this morning the evacuation of passengers and crew to 23 countries will take place.
Starting gun for the new Grifols plant in Lliçà de Vall. The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, laid the first stone of the facilities this Wednesday, which will begin operating in 2030. The Catalan blood derivatives company will add this complex to the one it already has in Parets del Vallés to create a 25-hectare biotechnology hub that will have more than 3,700 employees. Of these jobs, 400 will be newly created.
The judge overseeing the dana case has issued an order rejecting the holding of a confrontation between former councilor Salomé Pradas, under investigation in the case, and the Deputy Director General of Emergencies of the Generalitat, Jorge Suárez, at the request of the private prosecutors.
Intense heat returns to the Peninsula (if it ever left this summer). The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned that Spain begins today its third heat wave which will likely last until Thursday, the 23rd.