Política

If confirmed, I will work with the United States Department of the Treasury and the Governments of Andorra and Spain to ensure that actions are carried out in a fair, transparent, and consistent manner.” The author of these words is Benjamin Leon, the new United States ambassador to Spain and Andorra, and the translation of the diplomatic language is that his country is upset with the way the authorities of both countries acted in 2015 to liquidate Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) and that in his new post he will investigate what exactly happened.

The popular prosecution led by the ultra-conservative organization Hazte Oír in the Begoña Gómez case has requested 24 years in prison for the wife of the Prime Minister for the four crimes proposed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, as well as a ban on leaving the country and the confiscation of her passport due to “flight risk”. It also requests 22 years for her advisor, Cristina Álvarez, and six for businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés. For her part, Pedro Sánchez’s wife has filed a complaint with the Madrid High Court against the investigation carried out by Peinado, in which she asks for his decision to close the investigation and prosecute her to be declared null and void, as she believes her defense rights have been violated.

It was supposed to be barely two hours, but Luis Bárcenas had to eat a sandwich in the hallway of the Audiencia Nacional because his statement lasted five hours. It was one of the most anticipated appointments of the Kitchen plot trial, one of the biggest scandals in a country too accustomed to corruption. And it did not disappoint.

With a firm, calm step and now free —which is no small thing—, Luis Bárcenas arrived this morning at the Audiencia Nacional ready to undergo an interrogation in which he would explain what documents were stolen from him through the so-called Operation Kitchen, allegedly orchestrated by the Ministry of Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s time. However, the former treasurer of the Popular Party, with no outstanding issues with justice, delved into an area that the judge who instructed the case did not want to enter: “this operation was initiated by the party leaders”.

A group of Augustinian friars participate in a massive demonstration in Rome against the deployment of Cruise nuclear missiles (BGM-109G Griphon) at the Comiso military base, a few kilometers from the town of Ragusa, in the southeast of the island of Sicily. October 22,

At the beginning of this century, pilgrimages by the Spanish left to Porto Alegre became very fashionable. A trade unionist had just come to power in Brazil whose biography began as a street child who earned a living as a shoeshine boy, street vendor, and,

As he did with the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, last Friday, after the bilateral summit with Spain held at the Palau de Pedralbes, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, took the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, to the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), the leading high-performance computing center in Spain and one of the most important in Europe.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the Council of Ministers will request the suspension of the association agreement with Israel. Sánchez explained that he will transfer this request to the European Union and has asked for the support of the 27 for this initiative. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, has already criticized Sánchez for his announcement.

The Spanish super-submarine S-81 Isaac Peral, the jewel of the Navy, has been operating without the system to surface in case of emergency.

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