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Uncharted Territory, Spain to Take Over Catalonia Government: What’s the Libertarian Position?
Uncharted Territory, Spain to Take Over Catalonia Government: What’s the Libertarian Position? Madrid will suspend Catalonia autonomy on Saturday after Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president, refused to back down from a declaration of independence. What happens next is unknown. Spain fears violence but it may force new regional elections nonetheless. This is uncharted territory. The […]
Bank Run Imminent: Catalan Separatists Urge Supporters To Pull Cash From Bank
Bank Run Imminent: Catalan Separatists Urge Supporters To Pull Cash From Bank As tension escalate in Spain, Catalan Separatists are potentially about to do some real damage and hit Spain where it really hurts. In a tweeted message to their 270,000 followers, Assemblea Nacional urged supporters to pull cash from CaixaBank and Banco Sabadell branches […]
Catalan Leader Vows To Declare Independence If Spain Triggers “Nuclear Option”
Catalan Leader Vows To Declare Independence If Spain Triggers “Nuclear Option” The Spanish government crackdown on Catalan separatists has intensified this week, with a judge jailing two of the movements leaders and the country’s constitutional court officially declaring the region’s Oct. 1 referendum to be illegal. However, after confusing the Spanish government with his independence […]
If Catalonia Fails, We All Fail
If Catalonia Fails, We All Fail While I’ve touched on the Catalan independence movement in several recent posts, I want to make one thing clear from the start. I don’t have a strong opinion on whether or not independence is the right move for the region and its people. It would be completely inappropriate for […]
Finally Belgium Speaks Out Against Spanish Oppression
Finally Belgium Speaks Out Against Spanish Oppression The Belgium Prime minister Charles Michel has come out against Spain and now other European leaders applaud him for taking a position against the repressive action by Spain’s Civil Guard and National Police despite the fact that those in Brussels remain silent because they care only about their […]
Spanish Prosecutors Seek To Jail Popular Catalan Police Chief
Spanish Prosecutors Seek To Jail Popular Catalan Police Chief In a move that is set to further infurate the Catalan separatists for whom the breakaway region’s police chief has emerged as a quasi-folk hero, and prompting an even more vocal push for independence, moments ago the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office petitioned Madrid Judge Carmela Lamela, […]
With Just Hours Until Spain’s Ultimatum Runs Out, Catalonia Proposes Its Own Central Bank
With Just Hours Until Spain’s Ultimatum Runs Out, Catalonia Proposes Its Own Central Bank It’s D-Day for Catalan President Carles Puigdemont who has just a few hours left until 10 am on Monday (4am ET) to respond to the Spanish government’s ultimatum delivered last week by the prime minister, demanding to know whether Puigdemont did, […]
Catalonia Crisis Far From Over Despite Market Surge
Catalonia Crisis Far From Over Despite Market Surge Hopes that Catalonia’s woes could be contained are fading. On Tuesday night, for the briefest of moments, Catalonia’s government severed its ties with Spain. The region’s president, Carles Puigdemont, declared independence from Spain at around 7.40 p.m., Spanish time. Then, roughly ten seconds later, he put it […]
Madrid Threatens Imprisonment & Death to Catalonia Leaders?
Madrid Threatens Imprisonment & Death to Catalonia Leaders? The Spanish Government is clearly fascist and cannot escape that stigma. The day before the appearance of Carles Puigdemont in front of the regional parliament of Catalonia, the Madrid government has come out and warned of serious bodily threats that one would expect only from a dictator […]
Madrid Gives Catalonia 5 Day Ultimatum To Clarify If It Declared Independence
Madrid Gives Catalonia 5 Day Ultimatum To Clarify If It Declared Independence With Spain’s prime minister having opened earlier in the day the path for Madrid to use a constitutional “nuclear option” to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy, demanding that the regional government makes clear whether it considers itself independent, moments ago Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy […]
Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence
Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence Spain’s D-Day is here: the country’s biggest political crisis since an attempted military coup in 1981 is about to get a resolution – one way or another – and as Bloomberg reports, Spanish police are ready to arrest Catalan President Carles Puigdemont “immediately” […]
Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader
Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader In a quite shocking escalation of the rhetoric in Spain, a spokesman for the ruling People’s Party just issued a (barely) veiled death threat to the President of Catalonia. “Let’s hope that nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the person who makes the decalartion will end […]
Spain is only the Blueprint for How All Governments Will Act
Spain is only the Blueprint for How All Governments Will Act What is going on in Spain is the blueprint what what other governments will do. The Spanish people themselves outside of Catalonia are deeply divided. Many see this as offensive and others see the government as offensive. We are looking at the breakup of […]
