Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Cruz. El Confidencial A common view in Catalan public opinion is to classify as excessive any initiative coming from Madrid that questions the Govern decisions at any level “Do not exaggerate, your Honor” was the sentence, already famous, with which agents from Mossos d´Esquadra replied to the head of the […]
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On Violence
Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo It is inevitable: when the events overflow the law, violence appears. And along with it, the reflections on violence. This has been happening since last Sunday, after the police action to prevent the holding of the illegal referendum. The tension accumulates since then; the Catalan insurrection […]
Leaving the Hate Circus
Published originally in Spanish. Ignacio Martín Blanco, Joan López Alegre. El País Catalonia is facing onto the abyss of separation; the wind of rupture with the rest of Spain and EU —but above all, of discord between us, the Catalans—, is blowing. These days, Catalonia hurts to many of us. One question that almost everyone […]
Reality Bites
Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo No plan resists contact with the enemy; the sentence from the innovative Prussian marshal, Helmuth Von Moltke, fits like a glove to the change of direction that Catalan question is taking in these last few days. Without prejudice that, at the time of publication of this […]
The culprit of it all
Published originally in Spanish. Ramón de España. Crónica Global We hadn’t heard for some time of that adorable elderly couple that are Jordi Pujol and Marta Ferrusola when a photograph of both of them voting on last Sunday became a reminder that they were still alive and kicking. In the so-called polling station nobody insulted them nor […]
The pro-independence movement doesn’t monopolize the heart
Published originally in Spanish. Víctor Gómez Frías. El Español May 1974. In the presidential election debate, Giscard d’Estaing forcefully responds to Mitterrand, who had accused him of insensitivity: “Vous n’avez pas le monopole du cœur.” Four decades later, this answer has become a French proverb used to defend oneself against those who claim a monopoly […]
Houston, we have a (political?) problem.
This is a version of the post first published here: Derecho Mercantil España. Jesús Alfaro. The brightest – and many of the most obtuse – minds of the Spanish left have introduced into the Catalan question the notion that there is a ‘political problem’ which the Government, according to them, refuses to admit to. Yet […]
Josep Borrel. Full speech. Demonstration on October 8th in Barcelona. «Recuperem El Seny»
Citizens of Catalonia, Because that is what you are, citizens of this country. I see some estelades (T.N. star-bearing secessionist flag). This is our estelada [while displaying a European Union flag]. It carries the stars of peace, of coexistance, of civil rights… that is what defines Europe today. My friends, comrades, citizens of this country, […]
Imagine the Worst
Published originally in Spanish. Joaquim Coll. Crónica Global. Some of us have been warning for years about separatism’s insurrectional strategy until sadly the incontestable reality of these days has proven us right. Although sometimes manipulation and lies can push an enlightened society to catastrophe, that end is not always written in advance. However, to prevent it, […]
Why we’ll leave Catalonia
Published originally in Spanish. Marco Hulsewe. Expansión The damage inflicted upon the Catalan civil society and its economy will be long-lasting. Society is completely fractured and a perception of risk has been cast among investors. For these reasons we are certain that in time we, and many like us, will leave Catalonia. We want to live in […]