Photo by Jean-Guy Nakars on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El nacionalismo de Torra y Milosevic, lo único que une a Cataluña y Eslovenia”. Ana Alonso. El Independiente. 10th December 2018 “The only thing that binds Catalonia and Slovenia together is the essentialist nationalism of Torra and of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic”, says Ruth Ferrero-Turrión, professor of Political […]
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The Coup was Defeated by Democracy
Photo by Anthony Da Cruz on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “La democracia derrotó al golpe”. José Ignacio Torreblanca. El Mundo. 7th November 2018 It is just over a year since the attempt to overturn Constitution, by bypassing the Catalan parliament, stepping on the rights of the representatives of the majority of Catalans and disregarding the will of […]
The benefit of confrontation
Photo by AJ Colores on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «La utilidad de la confrontación», Joaquim Coll, Crónica Global October 31, 2018 One year ago we suffered a big socio-political tension that the majority of us don’t want to live again. Those of us that identify ourselves with constitutionalism always knew that confrontation, at the end of the […]
Catalunya versus Cataluña*: the Groundhog Day
Photo by Adrien Olichon on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «Catalunya versus Cataluña: el día de la marmota». Marco Hulsewe. Expansión. October 5, 2018 The author writes about the degeneration of politics and social coexistence in Catalonia one year after the secessionist coup d’état of October 2017. Between September 6th and October 27th, 2017, we lived the first […]
The Parliamentary Sessions of Shame
Excerpts from the book : «155: Los días que estremecieron a Cataluña». Editorial Doña Tecla. Teresa Freixes On the 6th and the 7th of September 2017, we attended to what I called «the Plenums of Shame”. This refers to those two days in which, without any respect for parliamentary regulations, nor for the Catalan Statute […]
Más vale una vez rojo que ciento amarillo* (Better mad than sad)
Photo by Aaron Mello on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: Más vale una vez rojo que ciento amarillo. Arcadi Espada. El Mundo Arcadi Espada, identified by Mossos after adding a red line to a yellow ribbon in L’Ametlla de Mar. I had never been in La Llotja, a restaurant close to the marina in L’Ametlla de Mar. I […]
Inside the Catalan hurricane – Part III: «October 1st.»
Excerpts from: “En el huracán catalán. Una mirada privilegiada del procés” a book by Sandrine Morel Ed. Planeta 2018 Chapter 20. October 1st. And that which was feared came to be. Everything was ready for the high-risk, illegal referendum. In the preceding days, some people in the secessionist camp tried to convince Puigdemont to desist from holding the referendum. So […]
Torra and Fascism
Photo by Jack Hamilton on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘Torra y el fascismo’. Daniel Gascón. El País. 8th August 2018 The president should act as if he believed in democracy rather than devoting himself to destroy it. Quim Torra, the president of the Generalitat, has published an article where he says that “as in so many other […]
Anatomy of the “procés”
Photo by Carson Arias on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. Anatomía del ‘procés’. Elisa de la Nuez. El Mundo. 17th July 2018 A few days ago I had the opportunity to meet a group of experts (sociologists, political scientists, jurists, economists, historians, diplomats, journalists, businessmen and even psychologists) in a seminar held at the International University […]
Inside The Catalan Hurricane – Part II: “The Media”
Excerpts from: “En el huracán catalán. Una mirada privilegiada del procés” a book by Sandrine Morel Ed. Planeta 2018 Chapter 11 The pressure on the media In 2017, Joan Maria Piqué, then director for external communications at the Generalitat, included all correspondents in a mailing list in order to send us everything that, in his opinion, would help us […]