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 […]
Categoría: Voices From Spain
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 […]
Addio al circo dell’odio
Originale: “Adiós al circo del odio”. Joan López Alegre, Nacho Martín Blanco. El País La nostra presenza su TV3 e su Catalunya Radio è nociva, serve solo come alibi Di Ignacio Martín Blanco e Joan López Alegre La Catalogna si affaccia sull’abisso della separazione, soffiano venti di rottura con il resto della Spagna e con […]
Ils se sont habitués à cracher sur le reste des Espagnols
Publié à l’origine en espagnol. Emilia Landaluce. El Mundo Felix Ovejero (Barcelonne, 1957) en a assez de devoir démasquer en continue les mensonges du nationalisme. Le penseur croit encore qu’une gauche anti-indépendantiste est possible en Espagne et il accuse le PSOE et Podemos de transiger avec le nationalisme, la forme superlative de la xénophobie. Q – […]
Josep Borrell. Intervento alla manifestazione dell’8 ottobre a Barcellona «Recuperem El Seny»
Cittadini e cittadine della Catalogna, perché questo è quello che siete voi: cittadini di questo paese. Vedo alcune bandiere estelada [NdT: “stellate”, bandiera indipendentista della Catalogna]. Questa è la nostra stellata (agita la bandiera dell’Unione Europea). Ha le stelle della pace, della convivenza, del diritto. È ciò che rappresenta l’Europa oggi. Amici, amiche, colleghi, cittadini: […]
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 […]
Non esageri, Maestà
Originale: “No exagere, majestad”. Manuel Cruz. El Confidencial Un atteggiamento diffuso tra l’opinione pubblica catalana è quello di definire eccessiva ogni iniziativa di Madrid che metta in discussione le decisioni del Govern a qualsiasi livello. “Non esageri, signoria” è la frase, già divenuta famosa, con la quale gli agenti dei Mossos d’Esquadra (NdT: polizia regionale […]
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 […]