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Those investigated in the ‘Plus Ultra case’ celebrated the rescue with oysters and champagne: “That comes out of 1%”

The Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police reflects, in reports to which EL PAÍS has had access, that days before the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra was officially approved, Julio Martínez Martínez, the friend of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had inside information about the operation, since he congratulated Rodolfo Reyes, owner of the company, for obtaining the loan. The investigators also report that a week before the Council of Ministers gave the green light to the rescue, there was a celebratory meal with oysters and champagne between Roberto Roselli, the company’s financial director,…

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The new Maria del Mar Bonet as always

If time is the Mediterranean and the boat is its voice, Maria del Mar Bonet sails through it with calm, pause and serenity. Oblivious to ups and downs and noises, leaving behind calm waters and always maintaining her own course, the Mallorcan singer has left behind 60 years of journeys that she is just now beginning to celebrate. The Palau de la Música was the first port of this cruise, which will shortly, in October, return it to its Olympia de Paris meaning. But it is not time to look back for Maria del Mar, who with a new album…

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The bosses of Plus Ultra, on how to get to the Government: “Delcy should call Ábalos. Or someone with ZP”

It was in March 2020, with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, when the directors of Plus Ultra considered the need to “reach aid” and, at the same time, knock on the appropriate doors at a “political level” to achieve it. A conversation between the then owner and vice president of the airline—Rodolfo Reyes and Julio Martínez Sola, respectively—reflects the intention to seek the intervention, at least at an embryonic moment, of the former ‘number two’ of the Venezuelan Government, Delcy Rodríguez. “Delcy, call Ábalos,” the first said to the second. “Or someone with Zapatero,” completed his vice president, who…

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Collboni’s final ‘sprint’ in Barcelona: works, international events and entrenched strikes

One year before the elections, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, is sending two messages: the “right to stay in the city” and that the city “will be the electoral grave of the extreme right” for its defense of public rights and services. This Friday, the mayor celebrated that the Generalitat has a budget agreement that will revert to the city with 606 million for the rehabilitation of Besòs, the connection of the tram along Diagonal or the construction of clinics, schools and residences. “We fight with facts the environment that the extreme right takes advantage of to challenge all…

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The flags of Lamine Yamal

As if he knew then that the future awaited him on the roof of football, as soon as he had the chance, at the age of 16, Lamine Yamal showed the world his past: he asked Adidas to paint three flags on his white boots (Equatorial Guinea, Morocco and Spain). His mother. His father. He.Continue reading

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The Supreme Court refuses to suspend the decree of regularization of immigrants

The immigrant regularization process will continue. The Supreme Court has refused to provisionally suspend the decree approved in April by the Government and has agreed that the process continues while it resolves the appeals filed against the rule, to which more than half a million immigrants have already requested to benefit. The decision was made by the Contentious-Administrative Chamber after the five hearings that were held this Friday to debate the precautionary request for suspension of the regularization process requested by the Community of Madrid, Vox and three associations (Hazteoír, Libertad y Justicia, and the Association for Reconciliation and Historical…

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