Ana Redondo does not have social networks. And that detail, which may seem trivial and even extemporaneous, gives many clues about the reason for her election as the new Minister of Equality to replace Irene Montero.. Born in Valladolid in 1966, she has developed her political career in the Castilian-Leonese city, both at the local and regional levels.. A policy without stridency, although those around it assure that it has “claw”. And these same sources highlight the “dialogue” profile of this university professor, whose one of her challenges is to redirect the waters of feminism, a movement that she has been discussing all her life, but in recent years making more noise than ever..

The appointment was a surprise even within the PSOE and some of the party's veterans, with three years of activism in the field of feminism, admitted not knowing her.. “Let's give it a chance,” said another socialist source.. She has a doctorate in Constitutional Law and has extensive academic literature, focused on the amendment processes in the drafting of laws.. The law of only yes is yes and its consequences in reducing sentences for sexual offenders is the main stain on the service record of Irene Montero's team, so Redondo's legal profile serves the new Executive to try to mark distances in Equality.

The first to receive Redondo's entry into the Government with cheers is another of the PSOE's feminist leaders, Carmen Calvo, who said at an event in Granada that she is the “second happiest person in the world” for the appointment of her partner. The recovery of the Equality portfolio for the party of the fist and the rose is one of the milestones of the new cabinet and this has been celebrated by Calvo, who starred in loud confrontations with the purple ones. In the background is the struggle that feminism experienced over the trans law, with Montero and her team as the main defenders of the text. We must not forget that Calvo abstained from approving this norm, despite the fact that the PSOE supported the text..

There are no records of Redondo's statements on the matter, but there is a photo with the new version of the LGTBI flag – which already includes the blue, pink and white stripes of the trans community – and in his role in local politics he has experience in relations with associations LGTBI. The Triángulo Foundation welcomed him on its. However, social networks were flooded with comments about Sánchez's decision, ruining the “low profile” he has chosen for Equality..

The 8-M Commission, which organizes the demonstrations for Women's Day on March 8, has chosen not to comment on the appointment. “Our place is the streets, the neighborhoods and the towns, trying to put together the voices of women,” expressed this group, which focuses on the celebration of the International Day against Violence against Women, which is commemorated every 25 November. This Tuesday, after the transfer of portfolios that Montero and Redondo will star in, the institutional event for 25-N is held and the participation of the new holder is expected in an event that will feature the participation of Victoria Rosell, Government delegate against Gender Violence and member of the team of the still Minister of Podemos.

The statement issued by Radical Feminists gives clues to the situation in which the feminist movement finds itself.. This organization talks about “expectation” and focuses on their legal training. They also claim that “the policies adopted in the last legislature have endangered the rights and freedoms of women and their daughters and sons,” in reference to the work of Irene Montero and her team, whom they accuse of “dismantling” those rights. with trans laws, just yes is yes and childhood. Radical Feminists demand that Redondo “open channels of communication” with entities critical of these laws, which anticipates the difficulty that Valladolid politics will face..

The connection with the Government

To understand Redondo's entry into the Government, we do not have to focus only on his legal training. She was a Councilor for Culture and Tourism, but also a spokesperson in the Cortes of Castilla y León.. And that is one of the links that can explain his arrival to Pedro Sánchez's new team.. The leader of the PSOE in Castilla y León was then Óscar López, a companion at the beginning of the rise of the President of the Government, then defenestrated in the organic struggles and now rehabilitated with a very influential position, that of head of the Presidency cabinet..

In addition, he also worked with his new colleague in the Executive, Óscar Puente, now Minister of Transport and until last June his boss as mayor of Valladolid. The Castilian-Leonese city thus has two members in a cabinet of 22 ministers and both in the socialist wing. The Valladolid clan gains weight in a team with two Andalusians – the largest federation of the party – and a single Catalan, despite the weight that the Andalusian PSOE and the PSC have in the electoral results that Sánchez achieved on 23-J.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) announces a significant decrease in temperatures for this Monday, along with a transition towards a more unstable atmosphere, especially in the northern half of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands.. An increase in cloudiness and the appearance of meteorological phenomena such as fog and precipitation is expected in these areas..

Climate change will be noticeable mainly in the northern half of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, where cloud cover will increase, with rain expected in the Cantabrian area, the upper Ebro, the north of the Iberian mountain range and the Pyrenees.. Galicia, the east of the Central System and other areas of the Iberian could also experience scattered rainfall. During the afternoon, showers could occur in the northeast of Catalonia, although with a low probability.

Change in temperatures and atmospheric phenomena

Regarding temperatures, a general decrease is anticipated in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.. This decrease will be particularly notable in the mountainous areas of the northern half, where weak frosts are expected in the Pyrenees.. On the other hand, in the southern part of the Mediterranean area, maximum temperatures will remain or slightly increase.

In relation to visibility, morning fog and fog are expected, especially in the northern plateau, the Ebro valley, the coastal areas of the eastern peninsula, western Andalusia and the Balearic Islands.. In fact, in the Balearic Islands and in provinces such as Ávila, León, Salamanca, Valladolid and Zamora, a yellow risk warning has been issued for fog..

Conditions in the Canary Islands and notices from Aemet

In the Canary Islands, temperatures will remain unusually high for the season, with possible maximums exceeding 30 degrees in some places. Intervals of medium and high clouds are also expected, and the presence of haze is not ruled out. On the other hand, little variation is expected in snow levels in the Pyrenees, initially high but decreasing to 1,400/1,600 meters.

The predominant winds will be from the west and north in the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, with strong intervals of a northwesterly component in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, the Ampurdán and the lower Ebro. The Aemet has issued risk warnings in Tarragona and Castellón due to strong winds and in Girona due to waves. In the Strait and Alborán, easterly winds are expected that will change to the west, while in the Canary Islands, easterly and southern winds will predominate.

The Catalan socialist Jordi Hereu (Barcelona, 1965) will be the new Minister of Industry, replacing Héctor Gómez, who was appointed in the last Government crisis to replace Reyes Maroto. Hereu was mayor of Barcelona between 2006 and 2011 and, until now, he was the president of Hispasat, the Spanish satellite operator.

His profile covers the quota of Catalan socialists, a key territory for Ferrraz, in the socialist Councils of Ministers.. Furthermore, his election continues the tradition of the Executives of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero when it comes to granting the Ministry of Industry to the PSC: José Montilla (2004-2006) and Joan Clos (2006-2008) were before him..

Pedro Sánchez also recognizes, with the election of Hereu, the specific weight of the PSC at an organic level and the importance it had in the last general elections in June. The Catalan socialists were the first force in their region and, in the end, one of the pillars of the PSOE result at the national level. In addition, elections are expected in Catalonia for 2025, but in the current scenario, no one rules out moving the event forward to next year..

Hereu's political career has been linked mainly to the Consistory of Barcelona. Precisely, there he obtained the baton of command after Clos himself abandoned responsibility to take the pulse of the Ministry of Industry 16 years ago..

Subsequently, in the 2007 municipal elections in Barcelona, the PSC list won, with Hereu at the head, to govern in said legislature.. At the end of those four years as first mayor, Hereu suffered a painful defeat in the consultation to reform the emblematic Diagonal Avenue.

After a year in the opposition of the Plenary, he decided to leave politics for the private sector, until today, when he returns to the front page with a ministerial portfolio.

From satellites to industry

The new minister has accumulated more than three years of experience in the business world since then. The Red Eléctrica Group, later renamed Redeia, appointed the PSC activist as president of the satellite company in October 2020.. Redeia, chaired by former minister Beatriz Corredor and whose largest shareholder is the State through SEPI (20% of the capital), bought Hispasat in 2019.

In addition to all the international business that Hispasat has developed under Hereu's mandate in these three years (Amazonas Nexus is already operational), the firm has collaborated directly with the Government to promote the UNICO Rural program that seeks to bring internet to the entire national territory. through satellite, to connect those territories that are not yet reached by fiber optics. The program is developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs directed by Nadia Calviño.

Jordi Hereu enjoys recognition for his management at Hispasat. Sources familiar with Redeia, but unrelated to the managers closest to Pedro Sánchez's Executive, point out that Hereu is appreciated for his work in the company. Hispasat is partially compensating for the drop in regulated income of Red Eléctrica within Redeia.

This firm also controls Hisdesat, the military satellite management part.. Therefore, Hereu also has knowledge of the military industry after the Government's commitment to increase military spending to meet its objectives in NATO and while Indra, another company controlled by the State and chaired by another member of the PSC, also wants to focus on that segment.

Distribution of EU funds and the Siemens Gamesa crisis

Hereu enters one of the ministries that has to distribute the most European funds for the conversion of some industries (PERTE VEC, PERTE Naval, PERTE decarbonization). Among his closest duties is to fulfill the commitments acquired by his predecessor, Héctor Gómez, with the Stellantis group, the largest automobile manufacturer in Spain, with large factories in Vigo and Zaragoza.. It is expected to be one of the major beneficiaries of the third part of the automobile PERTE, which manages the portfolio of the new Minister of Industry.

The most complicated part that will have to be managed imminently is the Siemens Gamesa crisis. Gómez announced last week that the Government will endorse the rescue of Siemens Energy. 5,000 jobs are at stake in Spain, where Gamesa has various industrial production centers.

Pedro Sánchez already has the Government ready and will officially announce it throughout this morning. The new Executive will have four vice-presidencies, one more than currently. María Jesús Montero will also be vice president, along with Nadia Calviño, Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera. The former president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, will be the new Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory; the former mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, will have the Industry portfolio; the also former mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, of Transportation; Isabel Rodríguez, from Housing, and Félix Bolaños, from Justice, in addition to the Presidency.

Other names of the conference are that of Elma Saiz, spokesperson for the PSN in the Pamplona city council and Minister of Economy in the Government of Navarra, whom Sánchez places as the new Minister of Social Security, replacing José Luis Escrivá, who will lead a new Ministry of Digital Transformation. Pilar Alegría, who becomes the new face of the Government since she is the replacement of Isabel Rodríguez at the head of the spokesperson, although she retains Education and incorporates Sports. And Ana Redondo, Puente's number two in the Valladolid City Council, and who will be the Minister of Equality. An appointment with which Sánchez intends to reconcile with the feminist movement, from which he had distanced himself during the controversial stage of Irene Montero.. For the PSOE it was a priority to recover this Ministry.

Montero will continue to head the Ministry of Finance, but is promoted to fourth vice president, a decision in line with the increasing weight that she has acquired in the Government and in the party.. She is one of the most important people in the president's core, along with Félix Bolaños, and is the number two of the PSOE as deputy general secretary.. Bolaños also strengthens. It retains the Ministry of the Presidency, but it also adds Justice, in full struggle with the Judiciary over the amnesty law. This new mission places him as the great fire extinguisher of the Sánchez team, to whom he entrusts the solution of the most delicate issues. The concessions to the independentists have caused an institutional clash with Justice. Contrary to what had initially been considered, the president has not reduced the giant structure of the coalition Executive and remains with 22 Ministries, five of them for Sumar.

The mystery of Calviño, pending it being known in the coming days that she is the new president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), is resolved by leaving her in the Government for now. He would leave his position when he has to join the EIB. A designation that Moncloa considers safe, after the public support of Germany and the endorsement that France grants privately.. With her departure, the Cabinet would once again have three vice presidencies and the forecast is that Montero will be the first vice president and the new head of Economy will only be a minister.. The name that was most popular, even in the financial sector, was that of Escrivá. By leaving him alone in charge of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, this possibility persists.

The incorporation of Ángel Víctor Torres, who left the presidency on May 28, after an agreement between the Canarian Coalition and the PP, was one of those that had been signed up. But his confirmation means that he will not remain there as head of the opposition, waiting to return to the regional Executive, as he had initially said.. This is one of the additions to the Government of those affected by the poor results of the PSOE on March 28.. Torres will manage, in addition to Territorial Policy, the powers of Democratic Memory, which until now were in the hands of Félix Bolaños in the Presidency..

Industry for the PSC

The new Minister of Industry will be Jordi Hereu, mayor of Barcelona between 2006 and 2011. The PSC thus takes over this very relevant area, in a legislature, furthermore, in which Catalonia is at the center of the political debate.. Although traditionally the Catalan socialists have always had a quota, they are recovering a fundamental area for the Catalan economy and one that could be profitable for them in the face of the next elections in Catalonia..

Another surprise is that Óscar Puente, former mayor of Valladolid, will be Minister of Transportation, replacing Raquel Jiménez. Very close to Sánchez, since he responded to Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the debate of his investiture, in the PSOE they counted on him having a relevant role, but without being able to know if it would be in the Government.. Isabel Rodríguez will also continue to be part of the Executive, but with Territorial Policy in the hands of the former Canary Islands president, the Castilian politician from La Mancha will assume the responsibilities of Housing and Urban Agenda. Access to housing, Sánchez had announced, will be one of the axes of the new legislature, so it will have its own portfolio.

In the absence of Sánchez giving the final list, it seems that José Manuel Albares (Exterior), Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), Margarita Robles (Defense), Luis Planas (Agriculture) and Diana Morant (Science and Technology) remain in their positions.. In the PSOE they assumed that the president would promote a major renovation at this stage so that the Government, in a particularly complicated legislature, would be “more competitive”. But party sources assure that in recent weeks the head of the Executive has preferred not to risk the portfolios that work for him, such as some of the so-called State ones, although he has opted for many new faces for the rest of his team..

Pilar Alegría is another of the people who remains in the Government, with greater projection. It will be the new image of the Moncloa, as the new spokesperson and the Education portfolio will add the Sports competencies, which are separated from Culture.

The five ministers of Sumar

After assuming that Sánchez would reduce his cabinet, the president has chosen to maintain the number and also the quota for the government's minority party.. It will be Yolanda Díaz who heads the magenta wing of the Executive, with the vice presidency and presumably Labor. The rest of the portfolios will be distributed between the parties with the doubt as to whether Podemos will finally have a seat in the Council of Ministers.

Díaz will be accompanied, according to Alejandro López de Miguel, by Mónica García (Más Madrid) in Health, Ernest Urtasun (Sumar) in Culture, and Sira Rego (IU) in a newly created ministry that will encompass Youth and Childhood policies. The name for the Social Rights portfolio, which Ione Belarra now occupies, is the former purple leader Pablo Bustinduy after Nacho Álvarez, to whom Díaz offered a portfolio, resigned due to the divorce between Podemos and Sumar.

Pedro Sánchez is already president of the Government with full powers. And it is thanks to a complex network of alliances that is supported, mainly, by the amnesty for those involved in the process and a series of economic concessions that are noticeable, above all, in the Basque Country and Catalonia.. Having achieved the objective, the socialist leader now has to start governing, which was his main objective, as he demonstrated when he said that, after the result of 23-J, “we must make a virtue of necessity.”. And he will have to do it walking on the wire of the pacts that support his unstable majority, but also with the weight on the shoulders of a percentage of the socialist electorate that does not fully understand this policy of alliances..

In Metroscopia they have quantified the percentage of PSOE voters who reject Pedro Sánchez's roadmap as head of the party. It was outlined by Andrés Medina, the general director of the demoscopic house, at the presentation of Esteban Hernández's latest essay, The Heart of the Present (Círculo de Tiza), last Tuesday at the Ateneo de Madrid. The “water table” of discontent is around a third of voters, a not inconsiderable figure, but which varies depending on the question asked.. “We always get a latent third of socialist voters who are dissatisfied,” explains Medina, who also reveals that this percentage coincides with that of socialist voters who disapprove of Sánchez's management at the head of the party..

That third of the electorate that expresses its discomfort in the polls is one of the stress tests that Sánchez must face internally in the coming months. The other, as Medina sees it, has to do with PSOE voters who are neither from Catalonia, nor from the Basque Country, nor from Navarra, and who see how in those territories they receive a series of “counterparts” for the agreements that The socialist leader has closed to be re-elected president.

This double aspect between the identity and the material also has different demoscopic expressions. And it has been detected by the company directed by Andrés Medina, which has studies that indicate that only 49% of PSOE voters are in favor of general forgiveness for those involved in the process.. At the same time, the percentage of approval of the pact with ERC only reaches 32%, which confirms a thesis that is used even within the party of the fist and the rose: economic transfers generate more wear and tear than identity transfers.. And the pact with the Republicans includes the management of the Rodalies and a reduction of the Catalan debt with the State of 15,000 million that must have repercussions on the rest of the regions, but it is not yet clear how it will be articulated..

The question is what electoral translation this discontent may have.. Medina considers it “absurd” to make vote estimates at this point in the legislature, with the elections still in memory and the Government still to be finalized.. But the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), which acts as the Catalan CIS, suggests that there is not much wear and tear. It is true that the CIS did detect a fall in the PSOE in its last barometer, but the public body of the Generalitat, in its third wave of the year, grants an overwhelming victory to Salvador Illa's PSC, with between 39 and 45 seats in the Parliament. compared to the 33 he has now. And this good data for the Catalan socialists coincides with a meager support for the amnesty among their voters, only 49%..

“That uncomfortable socialist third was already there before the May elections,” recalls Andrés Medina, who admits that this discontent among the PSOE electorate was compatible with the result of 23-J that has allowed Sánchez to repeat in Moncloa. But in the socialist headquarters they have already sounded the alarm to prevent this discomfort from translating into abstention or electoral infidelity.. It must be taken into account that there will be European elections on June 9, and there the president will be examined again, just as in the Basque and Galician elections that are scheduled for the first half of the year.. The icing on the cake will be the Catalans, which will be, at the latest, in February 2025.

The pedagogy plan

To better navigate this journey, in Ferraz they have devised a plan that involves involving all the resources of the PSOE to explain the amnesty to its voters.. Socialist sources allude to the “capillarity” of the party, with thousands of headquarters and town houses spread across the country, and also thousands of councilors that the socialist leadership intends to use as means of transmitting its message.. In Ferraz they are aware that the amnesty also generates doubts among their local cadres, especially far from Catalonia and the Basque Country, but the plan contemplates the involvement of the party from Moncloa to the city councils, passing through leaders such as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who He is already carrying out that work of apostolate.

The intention is to recover a very common practice until the times of Rodríguez Zapatero, when socialist senators and deputies embarked on routes through their provinces and visited each town to explain laws and outline the General State Budgets (PGE).. “This is very PSOE, always,” explains a socialist leader who has had responsibilities in Ferraz and is now in local politics.. Another socialist source remembers how at that time it was common for each law approved by the government to be a reason for debate in local groups..

The Generalitat, if nothing changes drastically, will declare a state of pre-emergency in the municipalities near the reservoirs of the internal basins of Catalonia, that is, the provinces of Barcelona and Girona.. This is a preliminary step that, according to the Catalan Executive, prepares Catalans for the worst. The director of the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), Samuel Reyes, has defined it as “a preparatory state for the state of emergency that may enter very soon” and that, in this case, would entail water restrictions.. So far, 37 municipalities are on high alert due to lack of water.

In this last month, Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar) has already launched tests to lower the water pressure in homes and industries and has announced that the price of water is becoming more expensive in most of Catalonia.. The increase will be nothing more and nothing less than 33% and will take effect in 2024. It will be the city councils that decide to what extent this increase affects households or what part is assumed by the municipal budget..

The price increase will affect all households, but especially families living in rented rooms. According to data from Cáritas Catalonia, there are 3,700 homes of this type in the metropolitan area of Barcelona alone..

Fermina arrived from Peru at the end of last year and has since been forced to re-rent rooms. She, her husband and their six-month-old baby live in a room in an apartment in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). The room has “a single bed and a half, but it doesn't even fit a crib for the baby, just a playpen,” explains Fermina.. Before this apartment, they already shared one in a similar way in Barcelona, only that it only fit a small bed.

According to Aigües Ter-Llobregat (ATL), the company that transports water from the rivers to the municipalities, the increase in household receipts could be one euro per person per month.. According to the company's figures, the increase will affect the water supplied to 90% of the population of Catalonia, including large cities such as Barcelona, Mataró and Terrassa..

ATL maintains that it has kept rates frozen since 2017 and that this increase is due to the cost of energy and the greater use of the two large Catalan desalination plants, located in El Prat de Llobregat and Blanes, to obtain drinking water and make up for the lack of water. in the swamps, which are at historic lows (below 19%).

The Minister of Climate Action, David Mascort, already warned last July in an interview with El Periódico that “the price of water will rise: if it is not paid with receipts, it will be done with taxes”. Four months later, this increase has materialized and it is now the responsibility of city councils to decide how it is reflected in household bills..

The deadline time

In “rental” apartments there are rules, not only between those who live together, but also with the owner of the apartment.. On the one hand, schedules and the distribution of tasks and space, on the other hand, the limitation of resources. “We have a schedule: after 6 p.m. you can't make noise or put on washing machines,” says Fermina.. “Now winter is coming, we need the clothes to be clean and dry, in summer they dried quickly, now we have to wait and there is not enough space for everyone, there are also shifts”.

From Cáritas, Sonia Lacalle comments that it is common for people who rent “to limit the possibility of showering whenever they want, sometimes they can even let them shower only once a week, there are many violations of rights.”.

People living in this situation are also being affected by rising prices and abuse by landlords.. “They have no justification, they tell them that the water goes up 70 euros and that they have to raise the rent. There is no security for people who live like this,” explains Lacalle..

Fermina confirms it: “They have told us that they are going to raise our rent because the electricity and water are going up, and because there are three of us, I am very worried,” and adds that they do not see the bills, so they cannot complain: “Yes “They don't help us, we won't be able to continue living here.”.

Public “laundries” are back

Faced with a situation that continues to worsen, various social entities demand the immediate approval of the bill to eradicate homelessness, which is currently being processed in the Parliament of Catalonia. According to Cáritas, the bill is key to addressing this situation and ensuring that new essential rights are created for those who live on the streets or in precarious conditions, such as access to a shower, a washing machine or transportation..

Cáritas estimates that there are about 18,000 homeless people in Catalonia, 80% more than in 2016. To address this problem, Cáritas has started a new initiative that involves offering the possibility of washing clothes to everyone..

For now, this initiative has been launched in the area of San Ildefonso, a neighborhood in Cornellá de Llobregat (Barcelona), where Cáritas has opened a public laundry for access to all those who need it.. Fermina, who comments that she cannot wash clothes and does not have a dryer in her house with rented rooms, welcomes this project: “it is a help, we have no alternative”.

A housing problem

“When we were looking for a room, there was nothing for less than 450 euros, we had to beg the person who rents us now to let us come with the baby for 380 euros a month,” explains Fermina. According to Cáritas, the majority of people in this situation are immigrants in an irregular situation who cannot access work contracts.. Added to these problems is the increase in water prices announced by ATL..

Cáritas does not offer aid to pay for supplies because they consider it not necessary. The energy poverty law already covers people who cannot afford the cost of their bills and prohibits cutting off supplies to vulnerable families.. The problem is that the subtenants are not owners of the meters and are at the free will of the will of their landlords, who are the ones who pay the bill..

What the organization does do is advise families so that they can access public aid and try to pay “so that they have a roof over their heads,” says Lacalle.. Furthermore, the head of Caritas' legal area warns that this is a growing trend and that they are especially concerned about the high number of minors in these conditions.

Nakeima started as a sushi and beer mug bar at number 54 Meléndez Valdez Street, in Argüelles. With a very neighborhood style and, in some way, paying homage to one of the original bars that was originally there, Los Cachorros, where many university students who played rugby in the Complutense went.. But they quickly realized that this could go much further..

Building a reputation by twisting their beloved Asian cuisine, with simple techniques, crazy sauces and a lot of ingenuity, they are now celebrating a decade, without losing the essence of that first establishment, opened on October 10, 2013. And highlighting one of its hallmarks: the queue that everyone must religiously queue to be able to eat there..

Gonzalo García and Luis Gómez-Bua, chef and manager respectively, are responsible. They are in an excellent moment. Showing off a lot of humor, hospitality wisdom and a casual philosophy, which makes them one of the great icons of good eating in Madrid.. Without losing sight of the moderate prices, the risk in the recipe book and a tremendous interest in continuing to evolve daily, changing dishes, formulas and dumplings, with which they experiment whenever they can..

The beginning

“At first people came, they had a beer and we put a nigiri on top,” says Luis, leaning on the bar.. “When we opened, there were three of us. Roberto [Martínez], who is now in Tripea and the two of us”. Gonzalo and Roberto came from working together at Nikkei 225, the restaurant that was beginning, with the help of Luis Arevalo, to break the mold with its vibrant vision of Peruvian and Japanese cuisine.. “It should be noted that we were in 2013, a time when the economy was not very good,” Gómez-Bua recalls of those years. “Our friends looked at us as if we were lunatics.”. And I have always thought the other way around, when it seems like nothing is moving, it is just the moment where the opportunity arises.”.

The success of the proposal came a couple of months later, when they appeared in the Leisure Guide. “That week was crazy.. We had to start closing after each service because we didn't have time to set up the tables for the next one,” says Gonzalo.. His first dishes were simple recipes, but very well executed.. “We made a spring roll, because in the end this is still basic Chinese. But we did it all in the day. We added vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, and bean sprouts. Which should have a good vibe.”

And they quickly had to decide how to organize the space inside. They didn't like the idea of reservations and decided to make people wait. They soon gathered beyond the official seats. So they decided to deliver some numbers half an hour before opening. At 1:30 p.m. for lunch and at 8:30 p.m. for dinner. “There are 17 officers, but sometimes 20 come in. It depends on how the number of diners per table fits,” reveals Luis.

Dumplings, lampreys and pig ears

Their dumplings also began to become popular, with more traditional flavors and nods to the less well-off East.. “At first we made sushi and our martianadas. And in the end people always came to try the latter,” the chef continues explaining.. They had a maki called Your way, emulating the hamburger they made at Burger King, Do it your way, where you could choose the ingredients you wanted..

Or a ramen broth with Galician cacheira; but then crazier dishes arrived, like his fried ear smothered over mashed potatoes.. “That was a great dish.”. Suddenly everyone started asking for ears only.. And, of course, there are not ears for all the restaurants in Spain. So there came a time when we stopped doing it.”.

As a Galician, what impressed Luis was the lamprey they made: “We have made it in many different ways. As a sausage, included in a Japanese chirashi or grilled in a four-handed with Tricycle”. Among the iconic dishes that in some way are also part of the history of Nakeima, is an aspic that they made with the marrow of the tuna and to which they added barnacles.. Old and innovative recipe book.

“That was a long time ago. Now you can see it in other restaurants, but we did it long before. The gelatin looked like a breast implant, something like that was a little cloudy.. And then the texture is like a jelly, but resistant, with a sea flavor, but not too aggressive either,” Gonzalo describes.. “There are still people who come today and say, 'if you have bone marrow, don't put it in me.'. It is a dish that has marked people, not for the better, but it defines what we do.”. And laughs out loud.

Tribute to 10 years

“Practically, we add dishes every week,” admits Gonzalo, who never stops in the kitchen, imprinting his personality on more or less known formulas.. If you go now you can also find a look back at his work in this decade. “We want to recover dishes from these ten years and mix them with new ones. Right now we are making the shrimp cocktail, a shrimp wonton, on the one hand, and then a sauce boat, as small as silver, which I love. A roll like that like French, a little old,” says Gonzalo. The result is like a shrimp cocktail but in two passes. On the one hand, the shrimp wonton and, on the other, the sauce boat with a red shrimp tartar and pink sauce.

There is also their legendary trotters carpaccio. “We cook the trotters, we bone them, we make a roll and we cut it thin. It is a recipe that Roberto learned at the Celler de Can Roca. He told us about it and we thought it could be a good idea to make a version”. In that menu, which one can season to their liking, there is a pilpil of enokis, nigiris of shrimp and Iberians, a tataki of low loin of Galician blonde, a temaki of razor clams, a classic siumai, takoyaki of grilled ear, ravioli of brie, a pork dumpling with five spices…

“Then we have the chicken with almonds, that is very fun too, which are some almonds. We make it in the ocoo, a Korean pot. It's almost a spoon plate. There is also our veal with peppers, which has veal tongue and green pepper,” he reveals while confessing that “probably next week they will have changed half of the dishes.”.

Haranita, his other right eye

In addition to Nakeima, this year they decided to open another space. On Victor Hugo Street, very close to number eight Gran Vía. There, in a two-story space, with a large open kitchen, they have moved some classics and have launched different baos, for example with chicken and carabineros..

“And there's our tripe salad, which was part of Nakeima's early years. Also a cochifrito, which is our version of sweet and sour pork,” the two explain.. Their cuisine, that of Haranita and Nakeima, is committed to very defined flavors within the spectrum of what oriental cuisine is.. No flavors that stand out in a crazy way.. Gonzalo, as the chef who from the beginning was leading the way, and Luis, as the one who is defining the lines of the business and ensuring that it is sustainable and does not get out of hand, are clear that they are experiencing one of their best moments. Enjoying what they do and being clear that their vision of Asian gastronomy is infinite..

“I think that adding many ingredients in the end saturates what you want to tell,” Gonzalo clarifies.. “We make much smaller dishes, which are practically one or two bites. “We like balance and more subtle flavors, not as pronounced as the cuisine you can find in Southeast Asia.”. An essence and a flavor of which they are the best representatives.

The spokesperson for Esquerra Republicana (ERC) in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has expressed his wish that Podemos and ERC, together with Bildu and the BNG, can work together to pressure PSOE to comply with its agreements, but has He specified that with this he is not proposing an electoral coalition with a view to the European elections of 2024.

In this week's investiture debate, Rufián took advantage of his speech to congratulate Podemos ministers, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, whose continuity in the coalition government seems very unlikely.. “I applaud you and I hope we can join together,” he said, words that some interpreted as a possible nod to an electoral coalition.

And Podemos has refused to dissolve into Sumar and, if its leaders leave the Government, it will feel free to set its own profile in Congress with the option of running separately in the 2024 European elections.. On the eve of the July general elections, En Comú already reported that the purple formation threatened to seek a coalition with ERC, something that Podemos denied.

In statements to the National Radio Parliament program, collected by Europa Press, Rufián specifies that with those words he was not referring “far from it” to a hypothetical coalition between Podemos and ERC, but to collaborating together to force the PSOE to fulfill its commitments..

As he recalled, in the last legislature there were already moments in which ERC and Podemos, with Bildu, the BNG and sometimes the PNV, have “put pressure” on the PSOE to try to get Pedro Sánchez to comply with his agreements and that 'front' should continue. “I think we have gone hand in hand in many things and the more we are, the better,” he says..

Rufián does not include Sumar in that equation and believes that “a government that declares itself progressive every day will greatly miss” Belarra and Montero, who have done “an extraordinary job” and “have been very brave.”. “It is very bad news that they are not there,” he says..

In his opinion, the disagreements of the Podemos ministers have been interpreted “in a self-servingly erroneous way”, as if they were going too far with “poor Pedro Sánchez”, when what they were doing was asking for the agreements to be fulfilled.

Last week he was in France and next week he will have a small tour of Brazil. Jorge Pardo, 66, is one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. His flute and sax can be heard on albums by Camarón, Paco de Lucía, Chick Corea, Pata Negra or Ray Heredia. He is one of the figures who best understood the mix between flamenco and jazz, not only collaborating with other musicians, but also signing some of his most iconic works.. In addition, he is from Madrid, born in Manuel Becerra, in the nearby Eva Perón park, he practiced with his first saxophone, back in the sixties..

When time allows, it is not difficult to see him in one of the rooms in the capital.. At the end of the month, on November 29, he will play at the Galileo Galilei with the Brazilian Guinga, in a very special concert. “Guinga's music is high-voltage music. It also belongs in some way to an important collective, generational and local heritage.. So, in some way, it has always been present,” he admits of this live show: “I'm very curious to see what comes out. And let's say it's also going to bring me closer to my Brazilian tour. So it will be a whole series of very nice coincidences.”

In fact, he recognizes that his sound has always been very close to Brazilian music. “I also lived in Brazil for a while. And I had my references, when I was very young, like Hermeto Pascual.” Pardo considers himself a modern-day musician, “in the purest sense of the word.” He likes to live in today's time. “And that's what motivates me. What I like most now is listening to new people, both flamenco guitarists, there are a lot of them, and the new generation, and with whom I understand myself better than with those of my time, or my youth”, confesses this National Prize for Current Music, awarded in 2015. “And, of course, with the legion of flutists or other instruments that are dedicated to flamenco, I love that situation”.

Madrid, the cradle of everything

When Pardo began to integrate his instrument with that of other musicians, he focused on flamenco. And he did it in his city. “Madrid has always been a reference city. It's not going to hurt my mouth to say that world. In the sense of flamenco, but understood flamenco as immersed in a global culture or connected with other cultures and urban tribes,” he reflects.. “I believe that I am, in fact, in some way, some sociologist could say that I am a child of that”. Jorge Pardo as a reference of jazz and flamenco, both understood as brothers who relate and mix with other music.

“In Madrid I have known Brazilian music, I have known Caribbean music, I have known flamenco, I have known jazz, I have known Bach, practically without leaving Madrid,” he continues.. “Then I traveled and got to know, of course, but practically without leaving Madrid I got to know all of that”. It was that Madrid that allowed him to make differences with other musicians, also to adopt his own personality, hand in hand with other musicians.. Finding his way in the Madrid nights of the eighties and nineties.

Morente, Camarón, El Bola

Pardo goes out into the street, goes to the bars, to other musicians' houses and begins to contaminate his songs and his albums with that mixture of flamenco so typical.. “Music has always fascinated me.. I have always wanted to know more and more. And with flamenco it was like that. It's one thing to be in the environment and let yourself go and soak it through your skin.. But then another is to choose and say let's see how to make a real malagueña or let's see how to make a taranto or let's see how to say a fandango and I have been one of those.”.

Jorge Pardo's life has always been linked to that of great musicians, figures who in some way have also made his way of playing and recording follow the paths that he has ended up traveling.. “It's always difficult to say names, suddenly a nebula comes to mind”, think about them. “You always get the loudest ones for everyone, yes Morente, yes Camarón, yes Paco, yes such, yes this other, but in reality there have been many important people”.

And that is where names appear such as Gerardo Núñez, Agustin Carbonell, better known as El Bola, José Antonio Galicia, El Gali, Juan Manuel Cáñizares, Montoyita, Juan Diego de Jerez. “I have always been an easy boy and I have been generous, let's say, in terms of collaborating with others,” he says.. Some of his most significant albums, A mi aire (1987), Las cicadas son casi sordas (1991), Veloz (1993), 2332 (1997), were recorded in the legendary Nuevos Medios of Mario Pacheco and Cucha Salazar.. Record that, despite being more than thirty years old, still sounds great. “At the time, yes, they were greeted by the very fans, but then they were rejected by the programmers,” he recalls..

At full capacity

And yet, Pardo continues non-stop, touring like few artists of his generation, maintaining a very clear connection with younger musicians.. Adapting to the new times, doing a lot of live shows and recording as much as possible, when time allows.. “I am at a time in my life when I have accomplished many things and, let's say, I am a free person.”. I always have been, but more and more. And in reality I do what I want,” he points out about this vital time, where he has also indulged in whims, such as being the protagonist of an interesting documentary, Trance, which accompanies him throughout the entire planet..

“In that, what I feel like, is playing, which is what I like most in this world.”. Apart from seeing my people happy and well, well, if you catch me at a concert, you catch me playing and meeting new people and with new music, new influences, new challenges to meet and earning a little money to pay my bills.”. And it ends with: “That is my paradise. So I'm going to continue with that until I have to leave this world.”. In addition to his concerts with unusual musicians, it is not difficult to find him on tour with his inseparable Melón and Bandolero.

“We are always investigating with our flamenco styles. That is one of my fantastic references, wherever we go, to France, through Europe, wherever we go, what we do is recognizable,” he explains.. And playing with Arab musicians, another of his weaknesses: “I love all those openings to partly unknown but familiar music.”.

• Demonstration against the amnesty law in Madrid this Saturday, November 18, live: what time is it, protests and traffic cuts

Article 2 of the amnesty law is in principle presented as the red line that the PSOE has marked for the independence movement. Under the title of “exclusions”, it includes the facts that will not be able to benefit from the amnesty, the crimes that are unforgivable: terrorism, torture, treason…. Its wording suggests that the socialists have remained firm on some ends of the negotiation, but when putting these “exclusions” into practice, a complete work of legal engineering is glimpsed: article 2 does not harm the leaders of the process, but it limits the interpretation that judges can make.

A copy of the Penal Code

In article 2, both the words that are included and those that are omitted matter.. Its objective is reflected in section F, which copies another article of the Penal Code, except for one small difference: the PSOE has eliminated its references to the “nation” and “ideology.”. In this way, the final wording implies excluding the following facts from the amnesty: “Crimes in the execution of which racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gypsy motivations or other types of discrimination regarding the religion and beliefs of the victim, their ethnicity or race would have been appreciated.” , your sex, age, sexual or gender orientation or identity, reasons of gender, aporophobia or social exclusion, the illness you suffer from or your disability”.

At first glance, it seems that the PSOE and its partners have been concerned about leaving this type of discriminatory acts out of the amnesty, but doubts arise when comparing it with the aggravating factors of criminal responsibility included in article 22.4 Penal Code: “Committing the crime for racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gypsy reasons or other type of discrimination referring to the ideology, religion or beliefs of the victim, the ethnicity, race or nation to which they belong, their sex, age, sexual or gender orientation or identity, reasons gender, aporophobia or social exclusion, the illness they suffer from or their disability”.

The rewriting is not accidental. By excluding discrimination “referring to ideology” and “nation”, the PSOE tries to shield the independence movement from accusations such as the one made by Vox in the procés trial, when it tried to aggravate the sentences, pointing to the aforementioned 22.4 of the Penal Code.. It is not, therefore, about the words that the law contains, but also about the message it sends with those it erases: judges can object if they see discrimination against gypsies, the poor and the disabled – which in practice has no effect on the causes of the process—, but in no case before attacks for reasons of ideology and nationality.

In fact, in the PSOE they know well the article of the Penal Code that they have copied. Since Pedro Sánchez arrived at Moncloa, the Government has reformed it twice: in 2021, when it included the concepts of “age”, “aporophobia” and “social exclusion”, and in 2022, when it added the concept of “anti-gypsies”.

A lifeline for Puigdemont

Time and time again, Article 2 makes it clear to judges what is left out of the amnesty so that they are even clearer about what is included.. The strategy is repeated in section C, which excludes “acts classified as terrorist crimes”. The National Court investigates this type of crimes in two proceedings linked to the independence movement: the one against 12 members of the CDR and the Tsunami Democràtic, in which the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and the general secretary of ERC, Marta, are listed as defendants. Rovira, among others.

The exclusion of terrorism crimes would in principle leave both procedures out of the amnesty, but the PSOE and its partners avoid that scenario by adding seven words below: “As long as a final sentence has been handed down”. Neither the proceedings against the CDR nor that of Tsunami have even reached trial, so, in practice, this supposed promise to leave out “terrorism crimes” has no effect whatsoever..

Section A also includes another paragraph that affects one of the lines of investigation into the cause of the Tsunami: the possible link between the death of a French citizen due to a heart attack and the blockade of the El Prat airport.. His death threatened to complicate the amnesty for those investigated in Tsunami, but the law includes another “exclusion” that would block that effect: “Wilful acts against people that would have resulted in death.”.

Fraud refers to the deliberate will to commit a crime knowing that it is illegal.. In this specific case, it would imply demonstrating that those investigated by Tsunami carried out the blockade of the airport with full knowledge and willingness to cause the death of this citizen, so, indirectly, this exclusion of “willful acts” would also benefit to Puigdemont and Rovira.

A risk for 45 police officers

The writing of this article reaches such a point that the only ones who in principle run the risk of not being able to benefit from the amnesty are the 45 agents whom the Investigative Court number 7 of Barcelona prosecuted last January: “[The facts] “can constitute not only minor or less serious crimes of injury, but also crimes as provided for in articles 174 and 175 of the Penal Code,” the judge warned in his resolution..

Article 174 is the one related to torture and the “exclusions” in section B point directly to this type of acts “as long as they exceed a minimum threshold of seriousness”. The text does not specify in any case what the yardstick will be: unlike what happens with acts of terrorism, to exclude crimes of torture it does not include a requirement as categorical as that “a final sentence has been handed down.”.

A shield against the EU

Sections D and E of Article 2 also draw a similar conclusion: “Crimes that affect the financial interests of the European Union,” warns the first. Throughout 23 pages, the bill makes no mention of Spain's financial interests, but with this reference, it anticipates the debate that is taking place in Brussels to assure the European authorities that, as far as they are concerned regards, you have nothing to worry about.

The last exclusion once again refers to facts that do not contemplate any cause linked to the independence movement, but, at least in this case, the PSOE does seem to row only in its favor.. “Crimes of treason and against the peace or independence of the State and related to National Defense”, establishes section D. This paragraph allows the socialists to highlight the supposed red line that they have marked for the independence movement and, at the same time, warns them not to go over the line when seeking support from foreign powers.. From now on, you can only negotiate with them.