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 […]
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Estat Català: the sewer
Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Estat català: la alcantarilla´. Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. 14th May 2018 The candidate to become Catalan president, Quim Torra, is an admirer of the leaders of Estat Català and he attends their homages: the Badia brothers are “the best examples of independentism”, he said in 2011. In 2014 he […]
A General Case? Just more nonsense
Foto: Brian Wertheim | Unsplash Originally published in Spanish.“¿Causa general? Otra majadería”. Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. 23th April 2018 The latest novelty coined by indy propagandists is that the state is prosecuting a general case [Causa General, in Spanish. The name of an infamous catch-all prosecution conducted in the early years of Franco’s dictatorship -TN] against secessionism, Catalanism, […]
Causa generale? Un’altra sciocchezza
Foto: Brian Wertheim | Unsplash Originale: «¿Causa general? Otra majadería». Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. La maggior parte dei cittadini indipendentisti vivono senza alcun timore giuridico o persecuzione fiscale. L’ultima novità coniata dai propagandisti indipendentisti sostiene che lo Stato stia istruendo una “Causa generale” al secessionismo, al nazionalismo catalano, contro la Catalogna. È una sciocchezza… anche se auspicata da qualche […]