An electric shock caused the death of Álvaro Prieto, whose body appeared this Monday between two train cars at the Santa Justa station in Seville.. The Government Delegate has confirmed in an interview on Canal Sur Radio that a security camera at a gas station near the area where the Santa Justa station workshops were located recorded the young man from Cordoba standing on the roof of a train, which was housed in the station garages.

Pending the autopsy, the main hypothesis is that the wiring in that area of the convoy electrocuted the 18-year-old soccer player who played in the lower categories of the Córdoba Football Club.. That is the theory that prevails among investigators after the first analyzes of the lifeless body of the young man from Córdoba, according to sources in the case.. The investigations indicate that the body remained in that place since its trace was lost early last Thursday. It is a medium-distance train that had been damaged for months and had not been in service since August 24, according to Renfe.. Just today he was carrying out some maneuvers without passengers when a TVE camera captured his movements. The journalists were there to cover the event and in the images they collected they could see legs protruding inertly between the two carriages.. Both the shoes and the clothing that the body was wearing matched the description provided by the relatives: beige pants and a green shirt.. Hours later, police sources officially confirmed that it was the young man who disappeared after the intervention of Scientific Police officers..

The investigation is being carried out by the National Police under the coordination of the Investigative Court number 11 of Seville, which was on duty when the report of the disappearance was received on Thursday.. Initially, the court decreed secrecy of the proceedings, but lifted it once the body was located.. That decision made it possible to predict that it had not been a violent death. A judicial commission under the coordination of the Investigative Court number 17 of Seville, on duty for incidents this Monday, moved to the Santa Justa roads to proceed to remove the body..

Outstanding questions

Sources close to the family inform this newspaper that the final autopsy was scheduled for this Tuesday, but the appearance of the body suggests that he died of electrocution.. The body showed no apparent signs of violence, so the thesis of accidental death is imposed.. But the case still presents unknowns, such as unraveling why he entered that place, how it was possible for him to enter and what his last movements were.. Also the actions of the station staff or why he did not choose another place or ask for help to recharge the phone battery..

The disappearance of Álvaro Prieto kept his family and friends, his team and the authorities in suspense. He traveled from Córdoba to Seville last week to party on Wednesday with friends and had a return ticket for the next day first thing in the morning. But he lost it, he never got on that train back home. No one found his whereabouts for four days.. His last known movements led the search to the Santa Justa station, where he tried to get on another train for which he did not have a ticket and the guards threw him out..

He also did not have money or battery in his cell phone to communicate with anyone.. The family took just a few hours to file a complaint on Thursday and asked for citizen collaboration to find any clues.. Among the many calls they received, there was at least one to which they gave credibility. It was from a woman who claimed to have seen the young man alive and in good condition around 10:30 on Thursday.. It located Álvaro Prieto in the vicinity of the station, specifically on Kansas City Avenue.. However, Police investigators, with the help of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), focused from the beginning on the roads..

Hours before finding Álvaro Prieto's lifeless body, his mother gave an interview to the Onda Cero microphones where she offered two options to explain what could have happened to her son: “It occurs to me, since walking doesn't go away. to come, by car. “A car stops and, one of two, either they took him in the car and did everything to him or they ran him over while walking.”. Finally, the body appeared at the same station where the track was lost on Thursday, but in a remote place and not freely accessible to the public without the authorities finding it..

The City Council of Córdoba has declared this Tuesday a day of official mourning. Córdoba Club de Fútbol fans organized “a small tribute” at gate 00 of the El Arcángel stadium. The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, expressed his “dismay and pain”. He also expressed his desire to have “maximum clarity” of the work that the State Security Forces and Corps carry out from this moment on to know “what the events have been in Álvaro's death.”. RTVE has issued a statement in which it “deeply regrets” the live images that have accelerated the discovery of the body..

The Investigative Court number 11 of Seville, in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of the 18-year-old young man from Córdoba, Álvaro Prieto, on the morning of October 12 after he missed a train that he had planned to take at the Santa Justa station to returning from the city of Seville to his home, has lifted the summary secrecy that he had decreed in the proceedings, due to the discovery of his body between two train cars in the workshop area of the aforementioned railway station..

As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), said judicial body is responsible for the investigation of the disappearance of the young man, who had spent the previous night in a nightclub in Seville in the company of other young people, being the judicial instance that was on duty when the disappearance report was received.

In accordance with the protocols in these cases, according to the TSJA, the aforementioned court decreed the secrecy of the proceedings, a secret that was lifted once his body was located between two carriages in the workshop area of the station, where the morning of the proceedings would have taken place. Álvaro Prieto was intercepted by security officers while trying to board a train after the one he had missed and for which he did not have a ticket.

Removal of the corpse

According to the TSJA, a judicial commission under the coordination of the Court of Instruction number 17 of Seville, which is on duty this Monday for incidents, moved this morning to the area where the body was found, to proceed with the removal of the body..

In parallel, the aforementioned train where the body of the young man from Córdoba Álvaro Prieto was found had not been in service since last August 24, according to Renfe, which has specified that the vehicle was damaged and during these days “it has not made any movement nor has it been subjected to any inspection or maintenance”.

Train paralyzed “since August”

This has been expressed by Renfe sources, who indicate that the train was parked on a track away from the Santa Justa Technical Treatment Center, “and had not moved since last August 24”.

According to Renfe, this Monday, some operators from the railway company were carrying out an “internal maneuver with said convoy, without providing passenger service.”.

A civil guard remains admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with a reserved prognosis, at the General Hospital of Alicante after being run over last night in the Alicante area of El Moralet and dragged several meters by a vehicle when he was preparing to identify his driver, who fled.

The escaped vehicle was later intercepted and its driver, a 19-year-old young man of Spanish nationality, arrested for the crimes of attack on a law enforcement officer, failure to provide assistance and serious injuries..

The reasons why he fled are unknown and the Judicial Police team of the Civil Guard of Sant Vicent del Raspeig continues with the investigation of the proceedings, as reported by sources from the armed institute.

The events occurred around 9:30 p.m. this Sunday in the El Moralet area, when a civil guard tried to identify the driver of a vehicle, who fled, hitting the agent and dragging him a few meters, until he fell unconscious to the ground.

Another Civil Guard patrol that was in the vicinity began pursuing the car until it managed to intercept it and arrest the driver.. As reported by the armed institute, the agent has undergone surgery and remains admitted to the ICU with a reserved prognosis..

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The Civil Guard has arrested a young Moroccan man, 23 years old, who was traveling on the train that made the Zaragoza-Pamplona route as the alleged perpetrator of crimes of threats, disturbance of public order and sexual assault, according to the Heraldo de Aragón.. The events, which took place on Sunday, October 15, forced the convoy, in which 400 people were traveling, to stop for an hour near the Zaragoza town of Gallur..

According to the same media, the individual got up from his seat and began to shout that he was from the Hamas terrorist group, which spread panic among those present given the current alert situation due to the attacks in Israel and the bombing of the population. Palestinian from the Gaza Strip. It happened around 2:15 p.m., when there was still an hour left for the train to reach its destination..

The young man then made threats against the travelers and ended up approaching two women, whom he put his genitals in their faces.. For their part, Renfe sources confirmed that a public order problem was recorded on the aforementioned train and the employees notified the Civil Guard following the protocol for these cases..

The agents boarded the car in Gallur and arrested the man, whose identity was not revealed, for the aforementioned crimes, as confirmed by sources from the Civil Guard.. On the morning of this Monday, October 16, it was handed over to the Guard Court of the Aragonese capital..

The underground economy has emerged in the world of boats, cayucos and inflatable boats in destinations such as Arguineguín. Despite the attempts of Customs and the Civil Guard to stop these operations, achieving this has not been entirely possible.. “These are taken by the Civil Guard, in theory to guard them or destroy them. Well, and the friends of others. You know, don't make me talk too much,” says a veteran professional fisherman in the area, who notices a detail with that ambiguity typical of the islanders.. They know a lot and seem just the opposite..

“Let's see, these things, people in schools don't explain it and you call me as if I were new to this, those engines do not have a European numerical registration and if someone decides to use a zodiac for something that is not legal, you understand what I mean, If you have to leave it adrift due to a mistake, there are fewer clues to be related.”. We must not forget that in 2022 in Mogán the National Police found a Mexican drug laboratory and a real protagonist of a Netflix series appeared on the packages as a logo.

The Civil Guard in Mogán has many more things to do than monitoring the engines of the canoes. It must control the arrival of 1 million tourists to the hotel sector in this municipality alone. That is, 8.6 million nights sold. Many of these tourists get lost while swimming, or end up in bad shape while hiking.. In addition to the cayucos, the Civil Guard in Mogán monitors 156 hotel establishments and 34,132 tourist beds that are offered.

Those who are dedicated to the engines are attentive to the procedure for destroying canoes and boats that arrive at the islands, in order to keep the loot.. Legally, these assets are property of the State, but the procedural economy of informality plunders this asset that is not reused because it would have to be put up for auction after the boss's trial, for example.. Ultimately, it is evidence of a crime.. There are cases where engines have returned to Senegal as machinery export.

The engines of the canoes that arrive in Mogán are a source of attention and in the Arguineguín Fishermen's Guild they have identified those who know how to overcome the control barriers to get hold of the engines. In 2021, the Civil Guard and AEAT put an end to a network that falsified engine papers to export them to Senegal and one of the alleged defendants was a port employee.. Canarian Coalition (CC) in Mogán has asked Maritime Rescue to take the canoes, boats and zodiac that arrive to the municipality on state land, but without any result.

In 2017, the National Maritime Training School of Senegal purchased 20,000 engines for the 20,000 artisanal canoes that exist in Senegal.. There it is customary not to use them second-hand, out of superstition.. 97% of the canoes are motorized, and 53% use a 15 horsepower motor. The annual cost of the cayuco fishing license amounts to 450 euros and 1,000 euros for a purse seine unit.. That is to say: the engines that are arriving to the islands are not close to their planned obsolescence, and their reuse has an outlet among young people who want to establish themselves on their own..

The needs of cayuco license owners are broad: the majority of fishermen (63%) are married. 43% have more than 9 children. 62% have attended a Koranic school. 94% would not have received any training in fishing. In 2021 was the last time it was known that the Civil Guard and Customs Surveillance (AEAT) of Las Palmas put an end to a network that was accused of stealing up to 208 motors from boats and canoes.. They all arrived in 2020 at the Arguineguín dock (Gran Canaria), and the idea was to then sell them to Senegalese buyers with the help of false customs documentation.. It was in the year of the coronavirus. That is, when confinement generated a climate of adversity and social rejection of foreigners in Mogán.

Immigrants had to be housed in hotels and apartment complexes. The crimes charged to those who steal engines in 2023 are the same as in the past. Although apparently they are doing a favor to the State, by promoting the recycling of machinery against the Public Administration and the rights of foreign citizens, membership in a criminal group, smuggling, misappropriation, reception, document falsification and simulation of a crime.. In a first container from Las Palmas there were 52 engines with identical characteristics to those used by the canoes from African countries, from which the migratory route that leads to the Canary Islands begins..

This discovery led the Civil Guard to relate their illicit origin to a complaint filed at the Benemérita barracks in Puerto Rico, in which it was stated that unknown perpetrators had stolen nearly 100 outboard motors belonging to boats, in addition to 30 fuel bottles and an inflatable boat. The investigation opened to clarify this complaint made it possible to verify that its author, together with another employee of the company responsible for the Arguineguín dock, assisted by a resident of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, transported outboard motors stored in the port area to an external, unrelated warehouse. to the enterprise. The police efforts confirmed that the seller of these engines was the romantic partner of the resident of Santa Lucía de Tirajana.. This woman is responsible for having sold 208 engines to citizens, mostly of Senegalese origin, with the help of some exporters.

After the anniversary of October 1, another celebration awaits the independence movement from which several parties and platforms hope to gain media coverage: the sixth anniversary of the proclamation of independence, materialized by the approval of a motion in Parliament declaring Catalonia a republic. independent. The date of that event was October 27, 2017 and, two days later, Carles Puigdemont fled to France to later go to Belgium, in order to not have to give criminal explanations for his actions.. This episode is now remembered as an element of pressure on Puigdemont in the midst of negotiations for the investiture, with the DUI as a starting point..

Radical anti-Spanish circles pressure Puigdemont not to give in, unless Pedro Sánchez recognizes the results of the referendum of October 1 and assumes the unilateral declaration of independence of October 27, 2017. The most belligerent secessionist segments threaten the former president with ostracism and dropping him if he succumbs to the charms of the acting president of the Government..

The truth is that pro-independence platforms are preparing for a series of actions aimed at revitalizing a movement that is not only deflated and with little popular support, but also mired in uncertainty and without a well-defined north.. The celebrations that will take place until the end of the month have two fundamental axes: celebrating the sixth anniversary of the DUI and putting pressure on Puigdemont not to invite Pedro Sánchez.

One of the first movements is to hold a joint assembly of anti-system groups and secessionist groups in the Nabat squatted social center, in Hospitalet, to prepare for the 2023 Torch March, an event that they want to be spectacular.. It will be on October 27 at 8:00 p.m. in the center of Barcelona, it will begin in the Parliament and end in the Plaza de Sant Jaume. Likewise, the assembly will take place on October 22 and will issue a mandate to reject the amnesty as it is intended to be agreed upon.. “We will not settle for a partial amnesty, we want it complete, we will not leave any colleague behind,” they warn in the call sent this week. In addition, they want the amnesty to be effective before next Christmas so that those who are already convicted or those whose resolution is pending can leave prison..

That same weekend there are “self-defense” days against police infiltrations, where slogans will be taught on how to hunt down police snitches among activist circles.. The Alerta Solidaria platform also presents a study of 83 “criminal cases against anti-fascists in all Catalan countries”. On October 26, the ANC has also planned an event in Premià de Mar with the former vice president of the ANC Jordi Pesarrodona and with David Budria, one of those arrested in 2019 in the operation against the CDR command. In fact, Budria reported in a Basque blog this week that JxCAT is carrying out the negotiations with Sánchez “secretly” and that the party “is armored, they don't give up anything,” so much so that “not even its own militancy knows about them.”.

Declaration of independence

The day before the unilateral declaration of independence, a group close to Puigdemont tried to influence the then president. Given the possibility that he would call early elections instead of declaring independence, he received at the Palau de la Generalitat the then international head of Convergència, Víctor Terradellas, and several of his friends (just a few days before he had received the group, accompanied by two supposed emissaries from Moscow who promised Vladimir Putin's support for independence). In the chats seized by Judge Joaquín Aguirre, head of the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona, the intricacies of this unique and crazy story are narrated..

“They had guaranteed us a statement this afternoon from Gorbachev,” said one of the messages addressed to Puigdemont.. And money from China. We asked you to hurry up. At five o'clock Putin's emissary came. We are at the doors of the Palau. You must receive us. Delay it and give us time,” said a desperate message to the president. “I now have an appearance [before the press],” Puigdemont responded. “Well, you delay it. And we talked. Carles, Miquel and I are here, 50 meters from the Palau.”. And then he gave up: “Go up Canonges [one of the entrances to the Palau]”.

One of the people who were at the Palau de la Generalitat that afternoon relates that they were not the only visits that Puigdemont received.. Jordi Turull and Josep Rull also went to his office.. “Both were completely opposed to calling early elections and pressured Puigdemont to declare the independence of Catalonia,” says this source, who saw the two politicians in the Palau.

The not very epic escape

The president allowed himself to be guided by the siren songs of the independence movement and gave way, allowing independence to be approved in Parliament, in a vote in which only the independence parties voted in favor and in which PSC, Ciudadanos and PP They were absent from the chamber. Two days later, on October 29, Terradellas sent a letter to Puigdemont. “After your speech yesterday, now it's time to play and win the game of legitimacy, demonstrate our sense of State and control of the political moment. It is necessary to continue on this path and maintain leadership and command. Tomorrow, in Palau, it would be necessary to lower the Spanish flag and shield the building with a peaceful appeal to the population. It is necessary that you appoint the best Trapero again and order the Mossos to be there and this way we will also know their level of loyalty (many will be loyal to you and Trapero). Normal activity includes the signing of decrees and the dismissal of councilors who do not go to the department, as well as the appointment of substitutes as ministers.. Along these lines, we must appoint the attorney general of the republic of Catalonia (one name could be Santiago Vidal) and allocate 400 mossos to his service. The population is loyal to you and demands guidelines: above all, the associative fabric and the CDR”. Puigdemont, apparently, read the letter on his WhatsApp. But his legs became weak and he decided to flee Spain..

Despite the epic nature of these events, the story is periodically updated by groups, parties, entities and platforms with the aim of creating a heroic story of those fateful hours.. The Catalan National Assembly itself, radicalized in recent years, has taken a step forward and demands the “lifting of the declaration of independence”, which they consider “legitimate”.

ANC onslaught

The ANC itself participated this week in the 2023 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference of the OSCE, in which its representative, Jordi Vilanova, denounced “fabricated accusations and investigations into crimes related to terrorism by peaceful Catalan activists, which have become a practice usual of the Spanish authorities”. He was referring to the CDR command that was arrested in September 2019 and whose members seized manuals, political records, materials to make homemade explosives and a list of possible targets.. He emphasized the “criminalization of the Catalan independence movement”.

On October 1, the entity chaired by Dolors Feliu demanded “to make independence effective, frozen since October 2017.”. His strategy involves “lifting the DUI [unilateral declaration of independence] and making independence effective,” and into that corner he tries to drag Puigdemont to block any vote in Madrid..

The most radical ones attack, at the same time, against the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, for speaking by telephone with the leader of the PSOE. “This character is pathetic. If you don't get in the way, it will burst,” an active militant criticized in a forum near Puigdemont.. “They negotiate among themselves to say what they should vote for. What a group of fakers,” responded another. But they brought up the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, for having commissioned an opinion on the possibilities of holding a referendum. Aragonés is described as “useless” and “retrograde”. “These characters are crazy… It seems like a farce of the worst quality,” said another activist, who was answered bluntly: “That's like asking the colonists if they want to lose the right to conquest.”. Do you know of any oppressed nation in the history of humanity that has freed itself from the colonists? With these enlightened ones they will even tear away all the stones from us.”

A well-known activist with several tens of thousands of followers remembered this week. “I don't know if we are aware that we are in the aperitif… and the entire tasting menu and desserts are missing,” he predicted, referring to the negotiations on the investiture and the PP counterattack against Sánchez.

What a scandal! Here it is played! The homage to Captain Renault's classic cynicism in Casablanca is the first thing that comes to mind when seeing the binge of unsigned headlines about Peter Lim's ties to KPMG. For this pen, the strange thing would be that at this point in the Singapore tycoon's career there were no ties with this big four consultancy. It's what it's like to move in certain areas, that you kick a stone and you get a bill or you meet at a cocktail party with one of your associates.. Look at the other three: Ernst & Young (EY) is the auditor of the sports limited company Valencia CF since Meriton took the reins in 2015; Deloitte was the firm chosen in the frustrated attempt to find a buyer for the old Mestalla plot that ended with the fiasco of the ADU Mediterráneo cooperative; and PwC's forensic and analysis helped Amadeo Salvo and Aurelio Martinez to lay the red carpet for Lim to purchase the club. Plenary to four.

That from those muds and other assignments, such as the audit of Wilmar International or McLaren, it can be deduced that KPMG International has councilor José Marí Olano on the payroll in order to give Peter Lim the Nuevo Mestalla urban development agreement to deceive Valencianism again It is another film in which more roles will have to be put on the table to make it convincing. Rather, what it seems is that the popular mayor María José Catalá did not measure the consequences of having swallowed with the condition of maintaining the double dedication that her part-time councilor of Grandes Marrones put in when she agreed to dress the municipal list in her lawyer's suit from the Status without resigning from the list of KPMG Legal partner in the Valencian Community.

Marí Olano, whose face has already been colored a couple of times by his colleagues in the municipal attorney's office due to the Docks issue, has become the scapegoat for the hornet's nest of economic interests that is Valencia CF. , the Royal Navy and other complex issues for which you had to arrive light if you wanted certain guarantees of armor when approaching them. Now he has no choice but to devote himself to exclusive dedication and process the leave of absence from the consulting firm that pays him to get rid of suspicions of a conflict of interest or go home and here peace and then glory. It was a matter of time before those working in the city to get their hands on the million-dollar urban planning operation found in the councilor's multiple employment the perfect weak flank to attack the attempt to negotiate and close once and for all the urban planning agreement between Valencia CF and Mestalla. the real knot that right now prevents Lim from completing the great job he landed in the city for and finding a way out of the SAD, with whose social mass he is suffering a divorce, let's laugh at the War of the Roses.

The fascinating thing, apparently unexpected, is that the most aggressive and threatening position against the signing of the urban agreement and the role of Mari Olano has come from what in principle seemed predestined to be the natural partner of Catalá, the ultra-conservative Vox group, converted into first opposition to the local PP.

Its spokesperson, Juan Manuel Badenas, has fully accepted the argument of Miguel Zorío and Marea Valencianista that Peter Lim has no water and that what needs to be done is to take away Valencia CF's status as urban planning agent and hand it over to a third party. that no one has named yet. A very complex, if not unrealizable, administrative operation that no one sees in the Catalá team and that would repeat a classic scheme of the local bourgeoisie in the history of Valencia CF: trying to stay with the business without advancing a carnation.

Saying Zorío is the same as saying the lawyer Pablo Delgado and, by extension, Francisco Camps. Whoever these days has wanted to listen to the former president of the Generalitat, pending sentencing in the trial of the National Court for the Gürtel case, is surprised by his hyperactivity (he may call on the phone a high-ranking official of Carlos Mazón who fables about the plots without urbanize next to the City of Sciences) and by the alignment of Badenas with the argument spread by the Zorío-Camps duo. They have already begun to see in the group the progressive crystallization of a lobby that manages the votes of four key councilors in the future of municipal life.. In no other way is it understood that Badenas put so much effort into demanding the management of the Urban Planning area and has placed Cecilia Herrero in Aumsa, the municipal company in charge of unblocking the main pending urban planning operations (Benimaclet or the PAI del Grao). Or that the number two of the Popular Party in the Valencian Community, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, had breakfast last week in Plaza Radio with “I am worried that Badenas has another interest other than working for Valencia”.

In this situation that is brewing, it is not strange that Catalá, who is also at risk of whether or not she will be the mayor who brought a portion of the 2030 Soccer World Cup to Valencia, is terrified of handing over part of the governability of the council to Badenas and Vox.. The strategy of the popular ones is inclined to create a line of resistance. Catalá has apparently already occupied the sociological spaces of Vox. She has established her image as mayor among the conservative electorate with overacting in gestures such as the entry of the Senyera into the Cathedral, the challenge to the Valencian Academy of Language with the happy accent and other signals directed at the carpetovetonic sectors of the city, even at the risk of moving away from the more moderate, secular and cosmopolitan sociology of the third capital of Spain.

But Badenas insists that he wants to touch power and resources. The battle for the municipal budgets, for which Catalá needs to build a majority in the plenary session that it does not have right now, is the first pressure trench. The mayor now has to decide whether to take the risk and leave for 2024 with extended accounts, blaming Vox for boycotting the municipal tax cuts she proposed, or surrendering arms with a peace agreement for territories. If she does, she will no longer be mayor alone. You will have a partner with your own life and agenda at your side. Yours and that of those who accompany you. With all that that implies.

Port Saplaya, north of Alboraia, just a few minutes from Valencia towards the coast, is one of those polarizing enclaves that does not allow lukewarmness: it represents a twisted urbanism seeking stylistic trompe-l'oeil, but at the same time it is a marine refuge for its 2,000 neighbors who –sometimes– have the feeling of spending their lives inside a boat.

Fifty years after its construction, as a real estate appendix seeking to fill seventies Valencia with color, it has entered the club of Venetian claims. Nicknamed Little Venice, it is clickbait fodder among tourism promotion. In mini format it fits perfectly with the drift that historian Salvatore Settis explains regarding the emergence of hundreds of Venices that, supposedly, try to emulate the real one: “What if just the opposite were happening? What if the false versions that spread around the world end up perverting the image that the true Venice has of itself? What if they became the latent model? What if a Venice without a people was looking for its identity in Las Vegas, Dubai or Chongging?” asks Settis in If Venice Dies.

The tourist apartment buildings of Port Saplaya could be, on the inside, the same as those of any enclave on the Spanish coast, only on the outside, like a papier-mâché stage, they are configured from a magician's tower, a castle , of squares with arcades, of towers and Romanesque windows, of scaffolds. A supposed medievalizing character, only around a nautical port and in the middle of a beach spirit.

The color of their houses, very pastel tones, has had to have a municipal ordinance that seeks to establish a defined palette, without transgressions, with the aim of maintaining the style of the complex.. Ochers, siennas and maroons were established as permitted tones – truly inspired by Saint Tropez – but for decades the artistic inventiveness of new owners threatened to alter the most relevant feature of Port Saplaya: its unitary theming..

Far from conforming to an aboriginal typism or wanting to recreate the real style of a small Valencian village in front of the sea, its key is the staging. A Disney-effect main road that allows us to offer a travel experience, but next to home. The viral significance of the urbanization has demonstrated the success of the idea. It attracts for its eccentricity and also compensates for some of its urban deficiencies..

It does not seek to be stuck to reality, with the anchor set, but rather to go sailing. Therefore, being an emblem of authenticity – that of the romantic seafaring towns of France and Italy –. As the Italian journalist Marco d'Eramo explains, “the more theatrical the staging of authenticity is, the more it is homologated, the more the 'typicality' is filed down.”. Continuing with the thought of Venturi and Brown (as opposed to Mies and his less is more), “less is boring”. Saplaya is more is more.

Although originally it attracted mainly second homes and urbanites wanting a Venetian-style dalliance, its close proximity to the city has turned it into a settlement for habitual residence.. A quiet and summery place all year round, right on the beach, less than ten minutes from Mestalla. The fable of living far from the urban bustle, although fifteen minutes (by car) from everything. Pointed out by architects and urban planners as a place out of context, the endless summer is instead a powerful incentive that has meant that, far from declining, Port Saplaya is seen as an opportunity..

In the midst of the real estate furor, the developer Quabit together with the municipal land company of Alboraia (Egusa) agreed to build 900 homes, a hotel, a new marina and an auditorium. The beginning of a new era of growth. The bursting of the bubble, on the other hand, frustrated plans that ended up in court.. In 2017, the Provincial Court of Valencia confirmed the ruling that obliged the public company to return the 23.4 million that Quabit had advanced for the development of the operation..

Unlike Venice, Port Saplaya aims to gain population. Without a primitive nucleus or a previous culture as a people, it is defined by its invention. Its own neighbors, already rooted, now refuse to let it continue growing. Faced with the risk of new urban developments, they argue that there is no space left, that there is already enough density and, on the other hand, there is still a lack of school facilities, green and sports areas.. Little Venice can't get any bigger.

But apart from real estate issues, the main attraction of the demarcation is the effect it causes. Evidence of how building theming is more fashionable than ever. It's not what there is, it's the effect it causes.

The Spanish monarchy needed a shakeup since Juan Carlos I squandered part of his institutional capital. And all eyes were on his son. The first years of the reign of Felipe VI and Doña Letizia have been marked by the firefighter strategy: putting out fires. Between the troubles of embezzlement of money and the Corinna case, one of the most valued institutions in Spain has been forced to work to regain its prestige. And nothing better than a journalist queen to know how important communication is and how to give a good headline to work on the reputational rehabilitation of the house.

These are strange times in Spain, more and more often there is another unprecedented situation to analyze and the Monarchy is not safe from these black swans either.. The debate on the Republic is a classic, what is not so classic is that declared lifelong monarchists now become republicans due to their disagreement with the actions of the king, who is required to assume powers that the Constitution does not give him.. They want the head of state to do what the polls have not done: a change of government.

The first who dared was Isabel Díaz Ayuso when she criticized Felipe VI for sanctioning pardons. In his opinion, the monarch should have led an alleged rebellion against the Government and paralyzed them.. But this spark lit the fuse of the most radical conservatives, who dared to ask the monarch not to designate Sánchez as a candidate for the investiture, once Feijóo's failed.. That is, they asked him to govern, instead of reigning, something that is outside his institutional powers.. If the amnesty thing ultimately bears fruit, I am convinced that all those who became republicans out of spite at Felipe VI's decision to name Sánchez as an official candidate for the investiture, will be the first to once again put the institution in trouble. they say so much to defend.

And while a part of the radical right revolts against the monarchy, the most extreme left has decided to park, at least for the moment, the republican flag. Yolanda Díaz, leader of Sumar, said in an interview on Sexta that it is not the time to organize a referendum on the State model. That is to say, the first time in history that the Communist Party and the Podemos space sit on the Government Council, they miss the opportunity to address the debate so many times longed for by the opposition.. The roles have been reversed in a curious paradox. Meanwhile, from the right, the institutional figure of his “majesty” is being eroded, demanding from him what is not possible.. From the left, postponing debates and minimizing criticism, the citizen “Felipe de Borbón” is protected much more than what might appear..

And meanwhile, the Spanish monarchy continues to be at the head of the State, little by little deploying a new style of leadership, thanks to Doña Letizia, one of the most unfairly criticized women in the public sphere.. I still remember when the guardians of the essences criticized that gesture in which she asked her future husband to let her finish during the official proposal. There it turned out to be her being too spontaneous. Since then, she has been described as a cold woman, who does not show affection or friendliness, a supposed trademark of the house. Now it turns out to be too distant.

Women are never at the right point to exercise leadership. Either very cold or too spontaneous. Either too young or too old. Either too presumptuous or lacking a refined image. Never on point, always past. And the big game target of the criticism of this sexist bias has been Doña Letizia. Meanwhile, he determinedly fulfilled such an apparently glittering and luxurious role as a slave: representing a country that never considered him enough for its prince..

The queen will have had to know how to overcome criticism and play the role of queen in her own way.. She has been a champion of social issues, such as mental health, which led her to rap to open a space in the news programs that she previously presented.. Always impeccable, she has been the best ambassador of Spanish fashion and an elegance that is admired throughout the world.. Speeches in various languages, in sign language, with words measured to the point of exhaustion to try to be perfect. It should console her that no one is a prophet in her land. Because while here we drool over Lady Di or the queen of Jordan, Doña Letizia is an icon of modern monarchies around the world.

On October 31, the heir to the throne will fulfill her mandate of swearing in the Constitution in a plenary session of the Congress and the Senate. Genetic fortune wanted Princess Leonor to be a woman and Infanta Sofía too, otherwise, if she had had a younger brother, we feminists would have created a monarchical #seabob of a sidereal embargo. However, it has not been necessary, because women, slower than we would like, are occupying positions of responsibility despite the fact that anachronistic articles of the Constitution continue to prevail over the rights of men over those of women..

References for women

I consider that the decision that Princess Leonor is taking the same military training that her father did is a success.. We need female references in tremendously masculinized fields, such as the Army. This institution is now celebrating 35 years since the incorporation of women, but the latest data available shows that only 13% of the military force are women, and there are only two in the coronalate. So seeing the princess parade, swearing the flag or in the military parade on October 12 in uniform, gave me a satisfaction similar to the moment when the champions of the women's soccer team lifted the World Cup.. Because, although with completely different trajectories and difficulties, both photographs represent more female references in masculinized fields for the leaders of tomorrow..

Hillary Clinton, on the night of her primary defeat to Obama in 2008, said: “Although we have not been able to break this very high and very hard glass ceiling, thanks to you it has about 18 million cracks (in reference to the votes that he obtained) and the light shines through him like never before, filling us with hope and knowing that the road will be a little easier next time”. These cracks are from women like Doña Letizia, who despite working hard to exercise positions of responsibility with diligence, have had to deal with a sexist society that has dedicated itself to criticizing them to the point of dehumanizing them.. And meanwhile, the same people to whom she never seems good enough, are dedicated to justifying the shameful behavior of a man, who, far from being an example for this society, has had to move to Saudi Arabia so that the distance, in time and kilometers, help forgive him. If Juan Carlos broke the protocol, how folksy and human. If Juan Carlos maintained formality, what sobriety and class. There you will also observe the difference in the standards.

Without a doubt, Doña Letizia has been a breath of fresh air for an institution punished by the scandals and lack of exemplary behavior of some of its members.. Neither Urdangarin nor Marichalar, despite being consorts like her, suffered even a tenth of the criticism that the queen has had to suffer, because according to the “experts”, she was not up to the task, as they were.. Time has not proven them right. Today, the queen and the princess are the two values that can contribute the most to maintaining the Spanish crown, and the second cannot be understood without the first.. That is why, in Spain, monarchy is written with 'Le', from Letizia and Leonor.

Today Spain has a dilemma that is complex to resolve.. Or repeat elections, with the risk that political balances will be as fragile as now; or makes an agreement with a party that maintains the legitimacy of October 1 and that has not and will not renounce unilateralism as a legitimate resource to assert its rights.”. This is how Carles Puigdemont commemorated the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that condemned the independence leaders who called the illegal referendum and proclaimed independence for sedition.. Oriol Junqueras did the same, demanding an “essential” amnesty to negotiate “on equal terms” so that Catalonia can exercise “its right to self-determination”.

The anniversary does not benefit the interests of Pedro Sánchez, who this week concluded his round of public negotiations for the investiture with Bildu as the only partner that has confirmed its affirmative vote.. In private conversations the horizon is more encouraging. Since August, Moncloa has been in a tug-of-war with Junts and ERC to close an agreement that satisfies all parties and that guarantees not only the majority of 176 votes for the acting president, but also a “minimally stable” legislature.. Much progress has been made as recognized by both sides, but in the final stretch it will be determined whether the fugitive finally wants to do politics or whether his top speeches continue to be red lines..

With the amnesty on track legally and measuring every word in the preamble, the framework is to take Junts to the so-called “dialogue table” that started in 2020. Puigdemont always denied this scenario and used it as a weapon against ERC, whom he accused of kneeling in front of the Government of Spain. Now, for Moncloa it is a priority that the Junts leader agrees to abandon unilateralism as a gesture in exchange for the measure of grace. The acting president is willing to take on the wear and tear, but he cannot run the risk of the independence movement revolting in the next four years..

Puigdemont and Junqueras also have to do their own damage control with their bases and with the horizon of the Catalan elections that could be brought forward to 2024. In the case of the fugitive, he insists on the need for what is agreed upon with Sánchez to be supervised by a “rapporteur.”. Moncloa has always denied this figure despite the fact that there has been talk that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero could end up playing a similar role.. The times do not allow the amnesty to be approved before the investiture, as the fugitive demanded, and those around the former president of the Generalitat want “guarantees”. The distrust towards Sánchez continues as the first day.

The “dialogue table” as it has worked until now is “insufficient” for Junts, which is pushing for an “arbitrator” to verify the agreements. The analysis they make is that until now no steps have been taken for Catalonia to vote on its future.. The referendum is another obstacle. “Catalans will not vote at all,” a minister categorically assures this newspaper, who closes any avenue for there to be ballot boxes..

The fine print of the papers exchanged by the emissaries is only known to a few, including Minister Félix Bolaños and the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán; but the socialists are convinced that in “no case” will they give in on this issue. Of course, they assume that the paragraph that was already included in the text agreed upon by the Generalitat and Moncloa to guarantee that the conclusions were voted on will be “made more flexible” to give an “alibi” to the sovereigntists.. The wording must be broad enough so that the Executive can “sell” firmness and Junts and ERC, which have made the commitment that a vote will end up.

At this point Junqueras appears more collaborative. ERC assumes that the referendum, despite Gabriel Rufián's “theatricalization”, is not possible at this moment. The Republicans will give their “yes” to Sánchez as long as it is validated that the path they opened towards the “resolution of the conflict” is the correct one.. Here it comes into play that a new Statute ends up being negotiated in this legislature that includes demands that the Constitutional Court overturned, such as Catalonia having its own General Council of the Judiciary, among others.. It is noted on Moncloa's agenda, but they note that “now is not the time”.

How much is Puigdemont willing to give up? That is the unknown that keeps the acting president awake at night.. If his public statements are followed until the last moment, there will be no guarantees for Sánchez; but the socialist is also tightening the rope knowing that the fugitive wants to return home. It seeks to protect itself from future plot twists due to the struggle between ERC and Junts. When he presents the agreement, which is carried out in absolute secrecy, despite the fact that it was said that it would be transparent, it will include not only amnesty, but also financing, a territorial model, reforms… There will be a wrapper or there will not be one.