Catalonia

The English phrase “deep state” kept cropping up during Catalonia’s independence bid to refer to the deep state structures that act independently of the incumbent administration, with a single goal in mind: to protect their own privileged position. Spain’s deep state includes high-ranking civil servants and official bodies, such as…

If it wasn’t so trite, fascist is the term that would best describe colonel Diégo Pérez de los Cobos, the Guardia Civil commander of the Madrid region who has recently been sacked by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s Interior Minister. Pérez de los Cobos is joined by Laurentino Ceña, the Guardia Civil’s…

Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has dismissed the commanding officer of the Guardia Civil in the Madrid region, Diego Pérez de los Cobos, due to “loss of trust and confidence”, EFE reports quoting ministry sources. The same sources have denied that the security operation set up at Pablo Iglesias’ home…

Authored by Catte Black via Off-Guardian.org, Now, dear reader, I know you’re not a member of an institutionally sociopathic elite caste, trying to extend your power back to the good old days of supreme monarchs ordained by God himself. But imagine you were. Imagine you were one of the richest…

Neither the coronavirus nor the Constitutional Court taking the matter into its hands have changed the position of the Public Prosecutor regarding Jordi Cuixart’s case. On Monday the Public Prosecutor’s Office opposed the Catalan leader’s demand to be released from prison as part of an appeal urging Spain’s Constitutional Court…

Neither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with the European Union have helped Vox advance in the polls. 19 May 2020 VOX supporters sing the anthem of the Spanish Phalanx while making the fascist salute during "Spain exists" demonstration in Barcelona, 12 Jan 2020 | Picture…

— By Stacco Troncoso ‘I have defeat tattooed in my DNA,’ Pablo Iglesias said in a debate on television last year, a month after announcing the formation of a new political entity called Podemos. ‘My great-uncle was shot dead. My grandfather was given the death sentence and spent five years…

MADRID — Pedro Sánchez had three clear (if daunting) objectives when he took office in January: find a solution to Spain’s territorial crisis while maintaining economic stability and managing a fragile parliamentary majority. Coronavirus has made every one of those challenges more complicated. It has thrown the country into economic…

On Wednesday Amnesty International made a new call for the release of Òmnium Cultural president Jordi Cuixart and the former Catalan National Assembly leader, Jordi Sànchez, two of the political prisoners convicted over the 2017 failed independence bid. This time AI has published a report arguing that, since Spain’s Constitutional…

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