In southern Spain, the one-year anniversary of the release of Catalonia’s unilateral independence referendum on October 27th—followed by mass demonstrations and police intervention—was met with a steady backlash against independentists through a variety of informal rallies and marches calling for Spanish unity. People took to the streets waving Spanish flags and calling for an end […]
Catalonia
The Constitutional Crisis in Spain
The images circulating from Cataluña today are unnervingly reminiscent of another era. Not since the dissolution of Francisco Franco’s fascist state in the 1970s has Spain looked like this. Following orders from the central Spanish government in Madrid, hundreds of members of the Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional, helmeted and dressed in black riot gear, […]