After the press conference of the league runner-up president, I watched Star Wars again. Like Pavlov’s dog, after Florentino I wanted Darth Vader. In fact, the staging, white and radiant, messy and lonely, very Soviet, in which we saw someone speak from a…
Fifteen years have passed since the most important social outbreak in democratic Spain. The 15-M emerged on a Sunday in May at Puerta del Sol in Madrid as a demonstration called via the internet, with a success that surprised even the organizers. And those outraged by economic precariousness and the political system did not go home after the protest. They set up a camp that spread to Barcelona, in Plaça Catalunya, and then throughout the country. There was a willingness to participate in politics. Thousands and thousands of hours of assemblies to outline possible roadmaps turned the squares into laboratories of direct democracy. What remains today of that movement? Could it happen again?
At the bar of the restaurant La Isla, in Seville, some gentlemen would gather at noon. Good people who most likely – one can always be surprised – had the characteristic phenotype of the Popular Party voter. Eavesdropping while waiting for the diner, one could get an idea of the program for this weekend. Most would go to the elegant and unparalleled Horse Fair of Jerez.
Are you in agreement that the province of Alberta should stop being part of Canada to become an independent state? This is the question that many voters in this region, bordering the United States, will have to answer after the separatist group “Stay Free Alberta” collected the necessary signatures to call a referendum. 178,000 were needed; they got 300,000. This fact marks a before and after for the province, which sees its secessionist aspirations approaching under the watchful eyes of Washington and Moscow.
Last week, the European Political Community (EPC) summit held in Armenia had a special guest. It was Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, who became the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of this intergovernmental forum that since 2022 brings together about fifty countries from the continent.
The United States is considering a formal accusation against former Cuban president Raúl Castro in connection with the downing of planes from the humanitarian organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996, according to sources cited by CBS. This investigation has come to light after it was revealed that the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, met this Thursday in Havana with high-ranking officials of the Cuban Government, as confirmed by both Executives.
Five Italian divers have died in the Maldives. The news, initially reported by local media, was later confirmed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The circumstances of the tragedy are not yet entirely clear, but according to initial reconstructions, the group was participating in a dive to explore several caves at a depth of 50 meters near the Vaavu Atoll.
As he himself explained on the flap of his works, “since he was little he cultivated the dreadful habit of reading.” And of writing: more than 80 essential books to know in detail the history of Barcelona and to approach some of the leading figures of Catalan culture. With this…
Writing about catenaries is not easy. Doing so in a way that readers do not get lost is even less so. And earning the respect of engineers is almost an impossible mission. Journalist Óscar Muñoz achieved all this through rigor, honesty, and commitment, the same that…
The Jury Court of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has found a man guilty of murder who killed his ex-mother-in-law by kicking and beating her in Mallorca, a 74-year-old woman. The Jury has unanimously considered that the defendant is the author of a crime of murder with cruelty and treachery, against a particularly vulnerable victim. The members of the Jury also recognize the aggravating factor of gender.