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 […]
Categoría: Voices From Spain
The Puigdemont plan: summer election or autumn election
Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El plan de Puigdemont: elecciones en verano o elecciones en otoño”. Ignacio Varela. El Confidencial. 7th May 2018 Carles Puigdemont knows he will never again be President of Catalonia. He has realised that what awaits him over the next few years is either a Spanish prison […]
The lie about Catalonia’s 131 presidents.
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘La mentira de los 131 presidentes de la Generalitat’ Patricia R. Blanco. El País. 20th May 2018 Quim Torra is the tenth Catalan president, an office created in 1931, not in 1359 as nationalist story tells. Almost all of Spanish media have assumed that Quim Torra is the 131st […]
Chapter Three: «A bid for the plebiscite»
Excerpts from “El golpe posmoderno. 15 lecciones para el futuro de la democracia”, a book by Daniel Gascón, 20018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. “This is not about independence, but democracy” was a slogan frequently repeated by the independentists. And it was true in a sense, but not in the sense they meant it. The main […]
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 […]
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 […]
Torra, l’attivazione dell’etnicismo e il ‘mambo’
Originale. “Torra, la activación del etnicismo y el mambo”. Pau Marí-Klose. Agenda Pública. 14 Maggio 2018 Come ricordava l’altro giorno Oriol Bartomeus in un eccellente post, la Catalogna è un oggetto delicato. Come in molti luoghi, la storia ha assemblato delle parti senza arrivare ad unirle, lasciando cicatrici che spiegano lo sforzo che aveva supposto unire […]
Chapter Two: «How to Design a Revolution»
Excerpts from “El golpe posmoderno. 15 lecciones para el futuro de la democracia”, a book by Daniel Gascón, 20018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. The Catalan process is a designer coup. Among its most admirable features are its propagandistic intensity and efficiency. It contrasted with the sluggishness of the Spanish government, which seemed to think that […]
The nine articles by Quim Torra that are being read all over Europe
Photo by specphotops on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “Los nueve artículos de Torra que se leen en toda Europa”. Manel Manchón. Crónica Global. 17th May 2018 Professors at several Catalan universities, jurists, journalists, legal professionals in anti-secessionist groups, many of them anonymous and participating spontaneously, have selected up to nine articles by Quim Torra, […]
Uralte Reflexe
Photo by Talgat Baizrahmanov on Unsplash Ursprünglich auf Spanisch veröffentlicht: “Reflejos atávicos”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. 19 Mai 2018 In einem durchaus schockierenden Profil des neuen Präsidenten von Katalonien hat der deutsche Journalist Thomas Urban einen wertvollen Beitrag zur begrifflichen Aufklärung geleistet. Wie man auf den Seiten der Süddeutschen Zeitung lesen kann, soll “Torras angeblicher katalanischer Chauvinismus” keine […]