In Italiano Voices From Spain

O razzisti o europei

Photo by Evelyn Bertrand on Unsplash Originale: “O racistas o europeos”. Carlos Yárnoz. El País. 18 Maggio 2018 La Catalogna guidata dallo xenofobo Quim Torra non sarebbe mai accettata in Europa L’elezione di un presidente razzista situa la Generalitat agli antipodi dei valori dell’Unione Europea, il club che, secondo le promesse dei truffatori secessionisti, avrebbe accolto a braccia aperte […]

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Iracondo, assolutista e intollerante

Foto: Jeremy Bishop | Unsplash Originale: ‘Iracundo, absolutista e intolerante’. Roger Senserrich. Vozpópuli. 12 maggio 2018 Il fatto che Puigdemont abbia designato con dito bonapartista una persona convinta che il 53% dei catalani che non hanno votato per il secessionismo non siano davvero catalani, fa capire chiaramente che il dialogo è pura pantomima. Permettetemi oggi […]

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Atavistic Reflections

Photo by Talgat Baizrahmanov on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “Reflejos atávicos”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. 19th May 2018 In his shocking profile of the new president of the Catalan government, the German journalist Thomas Urban has provided a valuable service of conceptual clarification. According to what we can read in the pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Torra’s “alleged […]

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Nationalism in front of the mirror

Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Nacionalismo ante el espejo´.Vigilis. Crónicas de un mundo feliz.  15th May 2018 Thanks to the new Catalan regional president, I believe we are now ready to remove the sticker with the word “culture” and let breathe the word “race” that was euphemistically hiding behind. Because all fragmenting nationalist movements […]

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Torra and why words matter

Photo by Nicole Mason on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘Torra y el valor de las palabras’ José Andrés Rojo. El País. 22nd May 2018 Everything’s moving very quickly. We had hardly had time to take in the new Catalan president’s impressive collection of publicly exhibited xenophobic ideas when the race started to make gestures that could only be […]

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What should everyone else do?

Photo by Björn Simon on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘¿Qué deben hacer los demás?’ Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. 14th May 2018 What should constitutionalist forces do? As advocates for the law, their first obligation is to follow it. Thus, just as soon as there is a Catalan government, they must follow what was laid out in the decree […]

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