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Álvaro García Ortiz: “With my conviction we have all lost, including the Supreme Court”

The first thing Álvaro García Ortiz did on November 20, when the State Attorney’s Office informed him that the Supreme Court was condemning him for revealing secrets to two years of disqualification, was call his wife, also a prosecutor. “There was a moment of silence until he told me: ‘I can’t believe it,’” says the former state attorney general in the first interview granted after his conviction, which was broadcast this Sunday night on the program About Évole of La Sexta. Continue reading

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A minor arrested for the violent death of a man in the center of Barcelona

The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested a minor as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of a man that occurred last night in Barcelona, ​​in the Ciutat Vella district. As reported by the Catalan police, the events occurred around 11:55 p.m. on Cera Street, when the emergency services received a call about an incident in which a person had been seriously injured by a knife, for reasons that are being investigated.Continue reading

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From Manhattan to Barcelona: the business of emptying properties to multiply rents

Before being New York, the great American metropolis was baptized by Dutch settlers as New Amsterdam. Three centuries later, that name crosses the Atlantic again, but to land in Barcelona. New Amsterdam Developments (NAD) is today one of the best-known – and at the same time most opaque – real estate companies for having threatened the homes of Barcelona tenants. Their business model, which, according to neighbors, consists of expelling tenants from their homes who pay still reasonable rents to create colivingshas angered the Catalan Government and Barcelona City Council. Especially when the company has only imported to the city…

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Moreno, of popular festivals; Montero, with the feminist flag

The campaign of the main candidates for the Junta de Andalucía is beginning to gain momentum while waiting for the first debate next Monday, which will force them to define the strategies for the following weeks until May 17. The candidates, this Saturday, have been fine-tuning their electoral tune. The regional president and candidate for reelection for the PP, Juan Manuel Moreno, has chosen to exploit the asset of citizen sympathy, with visits to popular festivals in the province of Córdoba and a rally against bullying; the leader of the PSOE of Andalusia, María Jesús Montero, has claimed the defense…

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The shadows of the “Andalusian economic miracle”: the lowest per capita income and the highest poverty rate

When Juan Manuel Moreno presented himself as a candidate in the 2018 Andalusian elections, he already told his people that his aspiration was to turn Andalusia, one of the poorest regions in Western Europe, into the “Bavaria of Spain”, an idea that he reiterated four years later, shortly before achieving the absolute majority. Since he came to the Government, he has insisted that his community is becoming a “locomotive” of the country and that it is going to compete head-to-head with Madrid and Catalonia for leadership. During this time, some macroeconomic indicators – the community is growing at a faster…

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