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Carmen Gomaro - leading international news and investigative reporter. Worked at various media outlets in Spain, Argentina and Colombia, including Diario de Cádiz, CNN+, Telemadrid and EFE.

A fight, 45 million, threats… a mafia story

“I'm going for your daughter”. “You are my enemy for life”. Those phrases could be a braggadocio that is released after a heat. Phrases that can remain an anecdote if they are said by 99% of the world population, but not if they are said by the Gotti family.

On March 18, 1980, 12-year-old Frank Gotti died, accidentally run over by a neighbor, John Favara, on a New York street.. His mother, Victoria, asked for revenge after seeing her son's murderer at a party and, on top of that, being insulted by him. Mysteriously, some time later, Favara was not seen again after being introduced by some thugs into the trunk of a car.

The father of that child was John Gotti and, although no one could prove anything, everyone in the Big Apple knew who was responsible for that murder, as one of his hitmen later confirmed in court.. Gotti, at that time, was a theoretical employee of a plumbing company despite always dressing in designer suits and no one ever saw him with a toolbox repairing a pipe.

Gambino family boss John Gotti with his lawyer.

12 years after that, Gotti would be sentenced to life in prison by a New York court for five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, violations of the RICO Law (organized crime), obstruction of justice, tax evasion, illegal gambling, extortion and loan sharking..

In those dozen years, Gotti had become the head of the Gambino family after murdering his predecessor, Paul Castellano, point-blank in December 1985.. Gotti thus became the most powerful criminal syndicate in the United States, as it was defined at that time..

In 2002, Gotti died of throat cancer while the Gambino family continued to operate between his brother Peter and his son John Gotti Junior.. However, after the arrest of more than half of the family, the Gambino clan was losing power to the strength of the Russian mafias and other eastern countries.

John Gotti Jr.. He is the father of six children including MMA fighter John Gotti III. A fighter who has a record of five victories to one in that discipline of mixed martial arts. “I share the name 'John Gotti'. I want to put it in a positive light and show people that I am a working child and that I am dedicated to this game,” the fighter explained in an interview with Bleacher Report.

“My father and my grandfather are part of me. But this is a different path that I'm taking,” he also said in that interview.. What, however, brings him closer to his family is what he told him after the fight he starred in against Floyd Mayweather. “Punk bitch Floyd Mayweather you are my enemy for life”. Those words, in which he tried to involve Connor McGregor by tagging him on social networks, are more like his past than Gotti prior to this gig.

Camp battle

And it is that, before the fight, for which Mayweather pocketed 25 million and Gotti III around 20, all were good words about the boxer being “his idol”.. However, the fight could not end because the 'trash talk' between the two became so unbearable that referee Kenny Bayless had to stop the 'official' fight.. After the bell sounded, Gotti tried to hit Mayweather and the members of both teams and even other people in the public started a pitched battle that ended with several injuries and other complaints filed..

These events have cost Gotti a 6-month sanction by the Florida Sports Commission. However, McGregor, in response to the fighter's call, has taken part for the Gotti family. “I support the Gotti, time is money” he wrote on his Twitter, although he later deleted the message. And he hurled a dart at Mayweather that he “didn't see the point in his bowling” and that the “real fight started when the fight was stopped.”

But, if someone has shown the true character of the Gotti, it has been Nicolette Gotti, the fighter's sister, who did not hesitate to threaten Mayweather's own daughter after the incidents. “Your daughter was hit by an animal with 12 different babies, little circus animal. You're all a herd of zoo animals. I swear on my children that I'm going for her”. If someone with the last name Gotti says it, it may not be a bluff.

Del Rey dazzles at the tamer US Open in history

The fact is that the first day of the US Open 2023 will go down in history as the easiest in the 123-year history of the tournament.

In total, 37 players finished under par and two of them, Ricky Fowler and Xander Schauffele, tied with 62 shots, the lowest round in the history of the majors.. Brandon Grace set this record in 2017 at The Open Championship.

At the US Open, the lowest record was 63 strokes until Fowler arrived yesterday to set a new record, however, it was curious to see how, after fifteen minutes, Xander Schahuffele completed the course with the same 62 strokes. The result earned the two North Americans to lead the tournament on this first day.

Three more facts that guarantee the meekness of Los Angeles Country Club; more cards than ever of 65 hits or less have been dealt. In total six. Since the first US Open in 1895, a round of the tournament has never closed without a result of 80 or worse, and two holes-in-one have never been achieved in the same hole, and yesterday with the blows of Matthieu Pavon and Sam Burns, the hole 15 was a party

The players are confused by such benignity, a circumstance that Alex del Rey took advantage of to become the best Spaniard with 68 shots and dazzle the Americans after his debut in a golf major. Del Rey, who is 14th in the standings, started with a birdie on hole 1 from 18 meters. Then the man from Madrid began to feel comfortable between cheers and the American show.

He then stood on the tee of hole 6, a par 4 of 254 meters where most of the players had opted for a conversational strategy.. In his first competitive round on this side of the Atlantic, Del Rey grabbed the 3-wood and didn't think twice, the ball came within a span of making a hole in one and a Spaniard, who was neither Rahm nor García, had unleashed another earthquake in the angelino field. It would not be the last, a fantasy tee shot from the bunker on hole 5 or a 12-meter putt for par on hole 7, even American television was following the Spanish recital.

Rahm's discreet start

Jon Rahm and David Puig share 25th place with -1. 'Rahmbo' suffered more than necessary on a very erratic day off the tee. The one from Barrika did not take his first fairway until his ninth hole. Perhaps the result is for the best for the fragile long game of the Spaniard, especially on his first nine holes. David Puig debuted with note in his first Grand Slam tournament. Sergio García finished with a round of 70 shots, par for the course and ranked 38th, while Pablo Larrázabal did so with +1 (71) tied for 56th position.

Among other heavyweights with a good start, Dustin Johnson shared the third position with his 64 shots and Rory McIIroy finished fifth with 65.

The Interterritorial Health Council will address this month the end of the mandatory mask in health centers, pharmacies and residences

The Minister of Health, José Miñones, has announced a meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System at the end of June to discuss the elimination of the mandatory nature of the mask in health centers, social health centers and pharmacies; although he has reiterated that the latest decision is made by the experts from the Health Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center.

This has been pronounced in an interview on National Radio collected by Europa Press. “You have to do it rigorously, you have to do it seriously,” he said, adding that it will be the experts who will guide the withdrawal process; that is, if it is done “prolongedly, definitively or in stages”.

Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder, revived and taken to hospital after a serious fall into a ravine

Gino Mäder, Swiss cyclist from the Bahrain-Victorious team, suffered a serious fall at kilometer 197 of the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse when he fell into a ravine, lost consciousness and had to be revived immediately. He was then airlifted to Chur hospital where his condition will be assessed.

American Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers) was also involved in this incident.

“At kilometer 197 of the stage, in the descent of the Albulapass, two riders collided at high speed. The race doctor came to the scene within two minutes. Magnus Sheffield was taken to Samedan hospital with bruises and concussion,” the race organization said in a statement released on Twitter.

“Gino Mäder was left unconscious on top of the water and was immediately revived and later transported by helicopter to the hospital in Chur. The severity of his injuries has not yet been clarified.. A status update will be provided as soon as there is new information.. The circumstances of the accident are being clarified”, indicates the text regarding the Swiss runner.

Along the same lines, a text released by his team on the official Twitter account is pronounced, who also specifies that Mäder left the road and fell down a ravine.

When the news broke, other squads in the peloton wanted to send their best wishes to the runner. This is the case of the Movistar Team, who tweeted “Fuerza Gino”, of Israel-Premie Tech, who wrote on the same social network “We send all our support and best wishes to Gino and his team” or of INEOS Grenadiers, where Sheffield runs. , which posted “We're with you, Gino.”

They also echoed the news and remembered him from runners such as the Frenchman Lilian Calmejane, the Spanish Juan Ayuso, winner of the stage, and the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, the main favorite to win the overall standings and currently ranked fourth in the same.

The latter has been critical of the layout of the stage: “I hope that all those involved in today's crash are well. I hope that the end of today's stage makes the organizers of the events and ourselves as riders think.”

“A high finish could have been perfectly possible, it was not a good decision to make us finish after a dangerous descent. As cyclists, we must think about the risks we take when going down the mountains,” he added in this regard.

Synthetic embryos: in the shifting sands of Law

The Guardian published a piece of news on Wednesday that, if confirmed (and it is convenient to be somewhat skeptical about it), will have a profound impact on biomedicine: a group of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have managed to create synthetic human embryos from reprogrammed embryonic cells.

This could provide us with great advantages both to advance our knowledge of the early stages of human development, and to improve in vitro fertilization techniques, or to create organoids more efficiently, to name a few examples.

However, this innovation is not exempt from ethical and legal problems, which cannot be adequately addressed because, to begin with, it is not at all clear whether these new entities should truly be considered human embryos.

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Without sperm, eggs or uterus: they create synthetic mouse embryos in the laboratory

This is of essential importance, because only by determining this aspect will we know what can and cannot be done with them, at least with regard to their use for research, which is what now seems feasible (its use for reproductive purposes would be, for the moment, clearly prohibited, whatever they were). And it is that the restrictions are much higher when we talk about embryos than when it comes to structures that are not, even if they seem so.

Without going any further, in our country the first point of article 33 of Law 14/2007 on Biomedical Research establishes a strict prohibition of generating human embryos for research purposes, but its second point explicitly states that “the use of any technique for obtaining human stem cells for therapeutic or research purposes, which does not involve the creation of a pre-embryo or an embryo exclusively for this purpose, under the terms defined in this Law, including the activation of oocytes by nuclear transfer”. The difference in the legal regime of the entities that are and those that are not considered embryos is, therefore, enormous.

Let us return, in short, to the question: are synthetic embryos authentic embryos? Hard to say, really. In Spain it is almost certain that they would not be classified as such right now, because the aforementioned Law 14/2007 only considers the result of fertilization as an embryo.

This point of view, however, differs from that expressed by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which, in the framework of case C364/13, established that what determines that an unfertilized human ovum can be classified as an embryo is the fact of having the intrinsic capacity to become a human being.

If we extrapolate this definition to synthetic embryos, the conclusion seems obvious: if they are capable of developing into a person, they will be embryos.. And if not, no.

The problem -and therein lies the crux of the matter- is that this could only be known if we tried implanting them in a woman's uterus, which is precisely what current regulations prohibit. With which, ultimately, we have no choice but to recognize that, at least in ethical and legal terms, we are walking on quicksand. And it does not seem that it will be easy to get out of them in the short term.

*Íñigo de Miguel Beriain, bioethicist and researcher at Ikerbasque UPV/EHU.

Casuals, the criminal gang that was born in the stands of the Camp Nou

Casuals has become one of the main proper names in police and judicial chronicles in recent years in Catalonia. The Mossos d'Esquadra baptized as Hydra the last of the operations against this criminal group whose roots are found in the stands of the Fútbol Club Barcelona. Like the mythological serpent with several heads, when it seemed that they had controlled one of the branches of the investigation, another would appear, leading them to a new crime or another to new suspicions.

After a year and a half of investigations, last Friday the Catalan police dealt a new blow to this gang, to which they attribute the crimes of homicide, kidnapping, cultivation and trafficking of marijuana, threats, injuries, extortion, public disorder and criminal organization. .

The agents arrested 28 people and seized several white and firearms, including katanas and a Thompson submachine gun.. But the blow was not complete. The Mossos Special Intervention Group broke into the home of the leader of the Casuals, Ricardo Mateo, early in the morning, whom they did not find. On the other hand, another of the main lieutenants of the group was arrested, Francisco Pérez, known as Paco el gordo, who in the previous days had already made headlines for the telephone conversation in which he threatened one of the radical fans of Espanyol who jumped onto the field to prevent Barça from celebrating the League title after the last derby in Cornellà. The historical member of the Casuals forced him to remove a tattoo from his arm if he did not want to be stabbed.

Soccer, in which they apply the same intimidation techniques to their rivals as in their criminal activities (they planned to beat up Joan Laporta in his first term as president of Barcelona), ceased to be the main field a little over two decades ago. game for the Casuals, born in the early nineties as an autonomous animation group linked to the Boixos Nois, the most violent followers of the Barça club.

The casual phenomenon, like so many youth subcultures, had its cradle in the United Kingdom, where some hooligans varied their way of dressing in order not to be so easily identifiable.. Their team jerseys, which they used to wear to the field, began to be replaced by polo shirts, shirts, and baseball caps.. The stands of the Camp Nou was the gateway to Spain in this fashion. In their “information sheet number 1”, in which they presented themselves in society, the Casuals defined their style through “unusual and sporty clothing” to distance themselves “from the urban tribes”, which at that time, in the backgrounds of the stadiums, had skinheads as the predominant element.

Presentation of the FCB Casuals three decades ago.

The adoption of the name of that new section of the radical fans of Barça is not in response to an alleged desire to camouflage its members. This was demonstrated by the banner with the Casuals FCB signature, and the double rhombus of the logo of the British clothing brand Umbro in the center, which accompanied them in the matches. The denomination acted more like a seal of quality with which to become strong in the stadiums and their surroundings, which ended up becoming a training ground for mafia practices unrelated to soccer, to which in a few years they ended up exporting their violent and expeditious methods of coercion.

drug robberies

The first activities of their extensive criminal history for which they had to answer before the Justice were the so-called overturns, that is, the theft of drugs from dealers. Posing as civil guards with material provided by a member of the armed institute, Mateo and his subordinates did not hesitate to give beatings if necessary.. Sometimes, as in a 2003 episode, cruelty reached the point of cutting off a drug dealer's finger.

Extortion was also the modus operandi used in famous Barcelona nightlife venues, whose owners were forced to hire them to take care of security if they did not want to have problems inside the rooms.

One of the most reliable signs of the feeling of impunity with which the Casuals were used, and continue to be used, was the confrontation they had with the mossos d'esquadra who were guarding them in the trial held at the Barcelona Court in 2013.. One of the 30 defendants was expelled by the judge after complaining about the extensive police deployment organized for that session. The rest of the defendants got up and threatened to leave the room.. It was then that the altercation between detainees and agents took place that ended with struggles, blows and some defendant reduced to the ground by the police.

Trial of the Casuals in which they faced the Mossos d'Esquadra in 2013. JORDI SOTERAS

Mateo, with a sentence of almost 16 years in prison, was one of those convicted in that macro trial, in which several witnesses preferred to retract the statements they had made in the investigation phase for fear of reprisals.

As a result of the last blow dealt by the Mossos, the structure of the group may be diminished (12 members entered provisional prison), as well as its resources. But, until now, neither police pressure nor prison have been enough to put an end to the criminal activity of the Casuals, which have become one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Catalonia.

That information sheet from 30 years ago, with which they presented themselves as an animation group at the Camp Nou, concluded with a warning that has exceeded their own expectations: “To the parrot with us!”

Genoa downloads in Mazón to explain "domestic violence" and Vox improves compared to Castilla y León

A more solid, ideological and mature agreement that will turn the Consell into the keep of the party. Vox scores an important goal for the Popular Party with the pact achieved to oust the left in the Valencian Community and makes progress compared to the one signed 16 months ago in Castilla y León, the only regional coalition government for the right to date and which has served as a reference for those of Santiago Abascal when facing these negotiations after 28-M.

The evolution of Vox since that February of last year is undeniable. If the party made its debut in the regional parliaments five years ago, facilitating a change of cycle in favor of the right from outside, now it is an essential piece for governability. And that can be seen in the text agreed with the PP, on which the formation has deployed a good part of its program and even neutralized certain positions of the popular, who remain silent from Genoa and download the assessment of the agreement to Carlos Mazón's team to also avoid the wear and tear of criticism from the PSOE, which considers the understanding between the PP and Vox at the municipal and regional level a democratic involution and that the “embrace” will be national.

Of the fifty points that make up the pact, the most commented this Thursday was to promote “policies that will seek to eradicate domestic violence, especially those suffered by women and children, guaranteeing equality among all victims”. Despite the fact that the PP defends that the powers in social matters will be its own, Vox manages not only to impose its discourse that violence has no gender, but also to prevent the PP from implanting any reference to sexist violence in the statement. This issue was not addressed in the pact between the two parties in Castilla y León, in the same way that a restructuring of the regional public broadcaster was not suggested, as is also the case in this case.

The pact recovers the parental pin and establishes a drastic reduction in spending

In addition, Vox takes advantage of the identity condition of the Valencian Community, more marked than in other regions, to vindicate powerful ideological demands for training, such as the end of subsidies to “entities that promote Catalan countries” and reinforce the customs and signs of identity through legislation that protects them.

The Culture portfolio, which will fall on the bullfighter and lawyer Vicente Barrera -who will also be vice president-, will play a fundamental role for Vox in this specific matter. The party, by the way, corrects the mistake made in Castilla y León of leaving the vice-presidency of Juan García-Gallardo without powers, a decision criticized in that negotiation and sanitized with this movement for the new Valencian government.

In terms of immigration, Vox also manages to capture a good part of its ideology. While in Castilla y León both formations promised to work in favor of an “ordered immigration”, now they commit to dismantle the subsidies of entities that collaborate or protect the practices of the mafias. More than 400 people reached the Valencian coast last year through small boats.

Vox will reflect its ideology in the Consell and promises an anti-squatter office

On the issue of the mafias, the two parties promise “within the exercise of their powers to inform the State Security Forces and Bodies of possible cases of illegal immigration,” as well as the creation of an office for attention to the illegal squatting similar to the apartment already installed in Castilla y León.

Vox scores the same in the educational issue and introduces the debate on the parental pin in the Valencian Community, one of the most controversial measures of the party, by agreeing with the PP that “parents will freely choose and, where appropriate, authorize the content of the extracurricular activities”. In the Castilla y León agreement, made up of 32 points, there was not such an express mention of this mechanism designed by the formation and defended in places like Murcia or Madrid.

In addition, the PP and Vox coincide in defending the countryside and the fight against territorial underfinancing, as well as in reducing taxes -in the path of popular autonomy it will end the inheritance tax and the wealth tax- and fight for the balance between provinces. Also for increasing health investment, especially for the primary. All of them will be powers that the PP of Mazón manages in its entirety, but that Vox, with the agreement in hand, will be able to lean towards its program.

The PP of Mazón limits the powers of Vox to control sensitive areas and the bulk of the accounts

Amendment to the whole. After eight years of left-wing policies in the Valencian Community, the agreement reached yesterday between PP and Vox for what will be their government program points to a radical turn in the direction of the Generalitat. The future Valencian Government will have the popular Carlos Mazón as president, while the bullfighter Vicente Barrera will be the vice president for Vox with the Culture portfolio. Not only that, because Santiago Abascal's party, which had already obtained the Presidency of the Cortes, will manage two other ministries, that of Agriculture and that of Justice and the Interior. And, above all, Vox manages to get the PP to assume its discursive framework.

It is the price that the popular pay to guarantee a “stable and strong” Executive, whose roadmap expressly mentions “domestic violence” but says nothing about the macho violence, despite the fact that the PP conditioned the pact to the fact that the Vox candidate convicted of mistreatment, Carlos Flores, did not enter the Consell. Anti-squatter office, pseudo parental pin or repeal of historical memory laws are some of the many that Vox points to, which also deletes any reference to climate change. If his electoral program was summarized in 12 points -compared to the 2,000 of the PP-, the 12 appear reflected in one way or another in the list of 50 measures that will guide the action of the Consell.

Now, this is on paper, because the reality is that the PP has not relinquished control of the main ministries and the most sensitive areas, which has generated not a few frictions during the negotiations, according to the sources consulted.. For example, equality or gender violence policies will remain in practice under the popular wing, as well as those for the environment and the fight against climate change or those related to families.

The PP, therefore, will assume the direction of all social portfolios, including Health, Social Welfare and Education. In the latter, in addition, there is the competence of language policy, a high-voltage matter taking into account that Vox had never before entered the government of an autonomous community with a co-official language.. In this sense, the document even speaks of the “free choice of the teaching language”, that is, Spanish or Valencian.

And, unlike what is happening now, the Environment will be separated from the Ministry of Agriculture, so that it will not be the responsibility of Vox, which also loses everything related to water policy, whose defense Mazón wants to capitalize on.. But the PP also reserves another key issue, such as the always complex negotiation with officials. Public Function will therefore be separated from Justice.

In addition to keeping all the social portfolios, which account for the bulk of the Generalitat's budget, the PP will also manage the economic ones. Treasury, Infrastructures and Employment will be for the PP. In other words, direct dialogue with social agents, employers and unions is also reserved.. By the way, the regional employers' association CEV reacted yesterday to this first package of measures by applauding the fiscal ones, which contemplate the abolition of inheritance and gift and heritage taxes, as well as the repeal of the tourist tax.

The objective of the PP, as they insist from the Mazón environment, has been to somehow limit Vox's capacity for action. In fact, although Justice remains under the orbit of Vox, Mazón already rushed yesterday to promise on Onda Cero the “recovery of gender violence courts” which, according to the PP, Ximo Puig eliminated with the plan to group judicial parties.

What is completely unknown is what Barrera will do at the head of Culture, which in these years has paradoxically been in the hands of Compromís and has not had any nod to bullfighting. Not only that, because important institutions such as the IVAM or the Palau de les Arts depend on Culture.

Beyond the discursive line, the document that PP and Vox distributed yesterday includes specific promises such as the approval of a law on identity signs. In reality, it is not a requirement of Vox, but it is the PP who wants to recover one of its latest regulations that the left repealed in 2015. Its objective is to finalize the subsidies to entities “that promote the Catalan countries”.

Nor will there be public aid to associations that “protect” “illegal immigration”. But it is public television À Punt, on Vox's target, which directly appears in the spending reduction chapter. You will be prompted for “plurality” and “concord”. From Genoa, silence is kept for the moment.

The PP of Mazón limits the powers of Vox to control sensitive areas and the bulk of the accounts

Amendment to the whole. After eight years of left-wing policies in the Valencian Community, the agreement reached yesterday between PP and Vox for what will be their government program points to a radical turn in the direction of the Generalitat. The future Valencian Government will have the popular Carlos Mazón as president, while the bullfighter Vicente Barrera will be the vice president for Vox with the Culture portfolio. Not only that, because Santiago Abascal's party, which had already obtained the Presidency of the Cortes, will manage two other ministries, that of Agriculture and that of Justice and the Interior. And, above all, Vox manages to get the PP to assume its discursive framework.

It is the price that the popular pay to guarantee a “stable and strong” Executive, whose roadmap expressly mentions “domestic violence” but says nothing about the macho violence, despite the fact that the PP conditioned the pact to the fact that the Vox candidate convicted of mistreatment, Carlos Flores, did not enter the Consell. Anti-squatter office, pseudo parental pin or repeal of historical memory laws are some of the many that Vox points to, which also deletes any reference to climate change. If his electoral program was summarized in 12 points -compared to the 2,000 of the PP-, the 12 appear reflected in one way or another in the list of 50 measures that will guide the action of the Council.

Now, this is on paper, because the reality is that the PP has not relinquished control of the main ministries and the most sensitive areas, which has generated not a few frictions during the negotiations, according to the sources consulted.. For example, equality or gender violence policies will remain in practice under the popular wing, as well as those for the environment and the fight against climate change or those related to families.

The PP, therefore, will assume the direction of all social portfolios, including Health, Social Welfare and Education. In the latter, in addition, there is the competence of language policy, a high-voltage matter taking into account that Vox had never before entered the government of an autonomous community with a co-official language.. In this sense, the document even speaks of the “free choice of the teaching language”, that is, Spanish or Valencian.

And, unlike what is happening now, the Environment will be separated from the Ministry of Agriculture, so that it will not be the responsibility of Vox, which also loses everything related to water policy, whose defense Mazón wants to capitalize on.. But the PP also reserves another key issue, such as the always complex negotiation with officials. Public Function will therefore be separated from Justice.

In addition to keeping all the social portfolios, which account for the bulk of the Generalitat's budget, the PP will also manage the economic ones. Treasury, Infrastructures and Employment will be for the PP. In other words, direct dialogue with social agents, employers and unions is also reserved.. By the way, the regional employers' association CEV reacted yesterday to this first package of measures by applauding the fiscal ones, which contemplate the abolition of inheritance and gift and heritage taxes, as well as the repeal of the tourist tax.

The objective of the PP, as they insist from the Mazón environment, has been to somehow limit Vox's capacity for action. In fact, although Justice remains under the orbit of Vox, Mazón already rushed yesterday to promise on Onda Cero the “recovery of gender violence courts” which, according to the PP, Ximo Puig eliminated with the plan to group judicial parties.

What is completely unknown is what Barrera will do at the head of Culture, which in these years has paradoxically been in the hands of Compromís and has not had any nod to bullfighting. Not only that, because important institutions such as the IVAM or the Palau de les Arts depend on Culture.

Beyond the discursive line, the document that PP and Vox distributed yesterday includes specific promises such as the approval of a law on identity signs. In reality, it is not a requirement of Vox, but it is the PP who wants to recover one of its latest regulations that the left repealed in 2015. Its objective is to finalize the subsidies to entities “that promote the Catalan countries”.

Nor will there be public aid to associations that “protect” “illegal immigration”. But it is public television À Punt, on Vox's target, which directly appears in the spending reduction chapter. You will be prompted for “plurality” and “concord”. From Genoa, silence is kept for the moment.

De la Fuente claims: "We have never doubted"

Serene, with aplomb, as if nothing more than the pass to the Nations League final had been at stake against Italy. Luis de la Fuente has stoically carried the rumor that he was facing his first big test as coach. Joselu in 88 was in charge of clearing up the doubts that the coach assures that he never felt. “We have never doubted. From within we are convinced that this was going to come out, that the job was well done, that it is a process that takes time, but that it was going to come out,” he assured without hardly chewing that on Sunday he will play for a title against Croatia.

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The De La Fuente era begins again

Luis Rubiales breathed more in the box than De la Fuente on the bench. “I am very happy for Luis because he has done a great job. Very good for the boys, and for those who have entered”, admitted the president of the Federation. It was that plan B of the coach that ended up giving him the victory and allowing everyone to catch their breath. “I carry it naturally because everything ends up being put in its place. My coaching staff is fantastic and the players are convinced of the message we convey to them and what we are looking for with them”, assured the coach, delighted with the “commitment” of all the players and, especially those who changed the game from the start. dock.

The night was expensive for a team that had two questions and cleared them up. The first was who would inherit the command of Sergio Busquet. It has taken almost nothing to show that it will be Rodrigo Hernández. It was the balance of the eleven, with an intimidating presence in the midfield that, although at times it seemed that it was not going to be enough to defeat Italy, ended up taking a shot that Joselu caught to give the victory and the pass to the final.

The man from Madrid played it without fear, who had already searched for the goal in a semi-Chilean shot that went over the crossbar. It would have been brilliant to close a historic season in which he has been crowned with a goal. The couple that formed the citizen with Mikel Merino was a green shoot that was seen in the game. And that he was, together with Laporte, the last to join the concentration after winning the Champions League and celebrate it, although it was much more prudent than Jack Grealish.

Joselu, in the orbit of Real Madrid, cleared the other, the doubt of the goal. He has become the effective forward that the coach was looking for. Three goals in three games, double against Norway and last night against Italy. The three leaving from the bench and in the last minutes. “I have been mischievous and attentive to Rodri's shot. It has been a victory of faith in a very complete game”, assured the scorer, who thus removes the bad taste in his mouth from the relegation of Espanyol.

It was difficult for Spain to find a way to hurt a coarse Italy in attack, which was losing sight of itself as the minutes went by, protected by a conservative system and with the same punching problems as Spain. “In the Eurocopa I saw them stronger”, summarized Laporte. Despite everything, they had choices that turned the feeling that suffering could be avoided into a mirage.

The fault was Gavi's mischief, Jeremy Pino's robbery of Bonucci with a pipe and the precious beating of the canary to, in three minutes, beat Donaruma. Then De la Fuente's eleven did not seem unreasonable, except for Nacho, Carvajal and Asensio, who arrived at the stadium with long faces after learning of the coach's bet.

Before the “immortals” of Croatia

The returns of Navas and Rodrigo Moreno to ownership were accompanied by the debut of Le Normand as Laporte's French-speaking partner. Except for the Sevillian, who at 37 years and 207 days became the oldest player to wear the Spain shirt, the rest took too long to work. The insecurity they conveyed was a headache. The Real central defender had to suffer when after ten minutes the referee awarded him a penalty for hands. They lamented and applauded to scare away the bad luck on a day that had been waiting for months. “These are things that happen in football. You had to have a cool head,” acknowledged the player, who thanked Laporte and Navas for their help.

Less happy, Rodrigo Moreno retired at halftime. The Leeds forward, who has only scored four goals in 2023, was replaced by Asensio and the entry of the next PSG player was a shock that made Spain play more in the area. He took a cross from Merino that Donnarumma saved point-blank and that Morata could not herd. It was also the turn of Unai Simón to be the protagonist against Frattesi, who had a goal disallowed in the first half and crashed into the Basque's feline reflexes.

Even so, Canales, Fabián, Ansu Fati and, above all, Joselu had to come off the bench to clarify a sticky match that leads Spain to a final against the “immortals”, as Rubiales, from Croatia, defined them.