Foto: Aziz Acharki | Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: ‘El «Juicio del pueblo»‘. Lola García. La Vanguardia. 6th may 2018 Six months after the tumultuous October of 2017, ERC have stated, in un ambiguous terms, that “it has been soundly established” that those events have not “translated to the birth of a Catalan republic”. No matter how obvious […]
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A shock nominee
Photo by Kristen Sturdivant on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘Candidato de choque’. Editorial. El País. 12th May 2018 Torra’s xenophobic views disqualify him to represent all Catalans It is hard to believe how low the independentist leaders are going to make the Catalan government fall. The nomination of Quim Torra i Pla as president of […]
Is Catalonia still a single people?
Photo by Daniel von Appen on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘¿Sigue Cataluña siendo «un sol poble»?’. Oriol Bartomeus. Agenda Pública. 3rd May 2018 Any society, any country, is a structure made up of different pieces, assembled in one way or another. They can be seen as a whole, but it is not homogeneous. History, the passing of […]
Catalan Regional Government Encouraged School Student Protests after the Illegal Referendum
Photo: Ryan Tauss | Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «La Generalitat alentó protestas de alumnos tras el referéndum ilegal». Oriol Güel, Jesús García. El País. 5th may 2018 Written instructions urged schools to hold protests with “all students and teachers” against the events. Catalan Regional Government encouraged schools and high-schools to hold protests “with all […]
“The coup showed that the state will defend itself, and that many Catalans actually like it”
Photo by Antón Castro Orginally published in Spanish: “El golpe que mostró que el Estado se defiende y que además le gusta a muchos catalanes”. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial 6th May 2018 The Catalan secessionist procés [TN: Catalan for ‘process’] has been the greatest challenge so far to modern Spanish democracy. But aside from a […]
Catalonia, one single secessionist people
Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Orginally published in Spanish: «Cataluña, un solo pueblo independentista». María Jesús Cañizares. Crónica Global 3rd May 2018 Among the most perverse ruses of Catalan nationalism, the one coined by Josep Benet and embraced by Paco Candel stands out: Catalonia, one single people. If both an intellectual and a slum […]
After 155
Photo by Eduardo Sánchez on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “Después del 155”.Juan Milián. The Objective. 30th April 2018 Last week we reached the half-year mark since the application of the Article 155 of Constitution. After bordering on the civil conflict, the declaration by president Rajoy was a relief —also for many independentists. The cessation […]
“The Catalan process can not be understood without the Catalan right and the economic elite” (Part II)
Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´El procés no se entiende sin la derecha catalana y la élite económica´. Manel Manchón. Crónica Global. 29 April 2018 Javier Cercas interviewed by Manel Manchón. Part II A torrent. But after hearing the question, he stops for a moment, a silence he gradually breaks […]
‘It is unforgivable that the left has been complicit in the secessionist movement’ (Part I)
Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Es imperdonable que la izquierda haya sido cómplice del independentismo´. Manel Manchón. Crónica Global. 29 April 2018 Javier Cercas interviewed by Manel Manchón. Part I Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) is experiencing vividly the political situation in Catalonia. He is aware that he has become […]
Violently
Photo by Michael D Beckwith on Unsplash 27th april 2018 Originally published in Spanish: “Violentamente”. Manuel Toscano. Voz Pópuli. In a ruling dated on March 21st, the judge from the 2nd courtroom of the Supreme Court indicted thirteen secessionist leaders for rebellion. Much has been discussed, and remains to be discussed, in our country about the characterization of the […]