Etiqueta: Ricardo Dudda

Photo by Daniel von Appen on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “Golpes, pronunciamientos y etiquetas fáciles”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 2nd May 2018 A few weeks ago, the historian Santos Juliá wrote an op-ed in El País entitled “Subduing the State”, where he says that the Unilateral Declaration of Independence proclaimed by the Catalan Parliament on […]

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “‘Instrucciones para ser disidente”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres 25th April 2018 On the day of Saint George, former Podem regional representative Albano Dante Fachín, who is very close to secessionist postulates (he buys the whole discourse but insists he is not a secessionist), wrote a letter that read: “Saint […]

Photo by Johannes Schwaerzler on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El Relato tras el Procés”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 4th April 2018 There’s a famous picture of the Valencian Parliament where all PP politicians indicted or convicted in the Gürtel corruption case are marked with circles. A similar exercise could be performed if political leaders […]

Originally published in Spanish. «Atrapados entre la acción y la reacción «. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 25 octubre 2017 It took five years for Mr Rajoy’s government to realize that the Catalan pro-independence movement matters. He neither offered dialogue nor negotiations; he did not offer alternative proposals either, when sovereignism was not yet rupturist and […]

Originally published in Spanish: “El final del procés”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. On 27th of October, the pro-independence parties in the Catalan Parliament, with the opposition absent and without the approval of the parliamentary attorneys, through a secret vote and a ballot box, tricking not only the Spanish constitution but also the Catalan Statute of […]