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November 9th: an ignored warning

Photo by Felix Russell-Saw on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El 9N: un aviso que no se atendió”. Editorial. El Mundo. That the secessionist process required a complex criminal web is not doubted even by its promoters, whose internal documents warned clearly about the unavoidable clash with the state that the disconnection project entailed. What the […]

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Spain and Death

Photo by Hannes Wolf on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘España y la muerte’ Víctor Lapuente. El País. 15th May 2018 Quim Torra has laid clear the philosophy of his future cabinet. Full of epic rhetoric about nation building but meagre in action, without any detail on specific steps. But everything generously showered with public funds for civil servants […]

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Irate, absolutist and bigoted

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish.‘Iracundo, absolutista e intolerante’. Roger Senserrich. Vozpópuli. 12th May 2018 Let me start my article today with a quote: “When the homeland is experiencing a moment of national urgency, when the nation is in danger of dissolving as sugar in a glass of milk, when all the bells about […]

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Our Jörg Haider

Photo by Fernando Mateo on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Nuestro Jörg Haider´. Rafa Latorre. El Mundo.  13th May 2018 Quim Torra invites caricature. Newspapers describe him as a stooge, a puppet or a straw man. They say Carles Puigdemont has forbidden him from using his office and labelled his nomination provisional in a humiliating video. It […]

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Nightmare in Barcelona

Photo by Nenad Spasojevic on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘Pesadilla en Barcelona’ Javier Cercas. El País. 15th May 2018 It bears repeating once again, in the hope that by sheer repetition we finally believe it: Joaquim Torra, gleaming Catalan regional president, is an enthusiast of Estat Català, a fascist or para-fascist and secessionist party that […]

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Exclusion and Conflict

Photo by Artem Sapegin on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “Exclusión y conflicto”. Editorial. El País. 13th may 2018 Torra’s speech pushes Catalan society towards clash A day after showing his -we now know insincere- regret over racist and xenophobic remarks expressed on social networks, Quim Torra went up to the Catalan parliament podium with a […]

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