Política

Ceuta is the black hole of Gargantua on the planet Miller. When they tell Cooper: “They are not mountains, they are waves.” It is the Wave from the movie Interstellar where just one hour on its surface equals seven years on Earth. “Space and time” like in Ceuta,…

The king Felipe VI will visit Ceuta and Melilla, ending an institutional hiatus of more than two decades in the two autonomous cities. This was announced this Monday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during an interview on Cadena SER in which he confirmed that the visit has already been discussed with the Head of State, although there is still no specific date for the trip.

Four Moroccan migrants, who were involved in the mass entry into the city on July 30, have been expelled to Morocco by court order after being detained in the city for assaulting three Civil Guard officers who requested their identification.

An investigation started in 2010, carried out in 2012 with the arrest of a criminal organization of Chinese origin. It was the first major operation against the so-called Chinese mafia, led in Spain by the businessman Gao Ping. Chinese citizens, Spanish businessmen, bankers, and even a porn actor, Nacho Vidal, and his sister were charged.

Ceuta will appear one day in a book by Robert D. Kaplan, the man who fifteen years ago warned us about an imminent revenge of geography. In fact, without being explicitly mentioned, the Spanish city that watches over the Strait of Gibraltar from the south is already peeking its head out…

P edro Sánchez will give explanations next week about Ceuta after a month of silence from the president. The carousel of ministers that preceded him has brought more confusion than anything else. We do not know what happened for almost 80,000 people to storm the border of Ceuta…

One month after the breach of the Tarajal border, through which more than 80,000 people entered in just 48 hours, Ceuta is a city with spirits at rock bottom. The deep feeling of institutional abandonment, combined with high doses of indignation, fear, and uncertainty, has taken over the streets. The same streets where thousands of immigrants continue to wander. The locals, whose August (their peace, their freedom) has been stolen with confinements not decreed by the BOE but by the lack of security, fear that the tension stemming from indignation will break their historic multicultural coexistence. That the crack at the border with Morocco will irreversibly fracture a population whose patience is at its limit due to unfulfilled promises.

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has once again criticized the Government for its handling of the migration crisis that Ceuta is still experiencing, a crisis “of unprecedented magnitude,” which “affects the territorial integrity of Spain, our sovereignty,” and against which “the Government decided to close for vacation, to be absent.” For this reason, he has announced that he will fight the political and judicial battle. In the first area, Feijóo has demanded the appearance of the director of the CNI to clarify the “contradictions” into which the ministers of the central Government have fallen regarding whether there were prior warnings or not before the “invasion” by the intelligence service, and in the judicial area, he has announced that his party will join the legal case opened in the National Court so that “those responsible for the abandonment” are held accountable before justice.

“Aquel verano del 26”. It is very likely that in a few years the summer of 2026 will be remembered for two extreme events: the human avalanche in Ceuta, with 150 people dead, most of them drowned while trying to reach the coast, on July 30 and 31, and the gigantic flood in Nepal, on August 26, as a result of the massive collapse of a glacier, which has caused more than a thousand missing. In both cases, the images are impressive, terrible. We live in times of extreme events whose fury is measured by the impact of videocapsules spread through social networks.

Spain has requested the support of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and Europol from the European Commission for the triage –classification– work of immigrants who remain in Ceuta irregularly.