{"id":26034,"date":"2017-09-23T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26034"},"modified":"2017-09-23T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T15:13:45","slug":"defiant-catalans-block-spains-military-boats-from-landing-spain-seizes-cat-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26034","title":{"rendered":"Defiant Catalans Block Spain\u2019s Military Boats From Landing; Spain Seizes \u201c.CAT\u201d Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Defiant Catalans Block Spain\u2019s Military Boats From Landing; Spain Seizes \u201c.CAT\u201d Domain<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Spain\u2019s plan to send boatloads of military police to Catalonia to prevent its independence referendum have backfired with dockers in two ports staging a boycott and a third refusing access.<\/p>\n

The Express writes Police boats Blocked by Catalan ports as unrest threatens to Rip Spain Apart<\/a>.
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More than 4,000 members of Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil are being dispatched to the troubled region amid concerns over divided loyalties in the autonomous community\u2019s own police force, the Mossos d\u2019 Esquadra.<\/p>\n

Spanish authorities wanted to house the Guardia Civil officers on four cruise ships \u2013 two in Barcelona, one in Tarragona and another in Palamos.<\/p>\n

But as thousands took to the streets to protest against the detention of Catalan officials, local dock workers joined the backlash.<\/p>\n

The Assembly of Stevedores of the Port of Barcelona announced that workers would not provide any services to boats carrying security forces, a decision it said was taken \u201cin defence of civil rights\u201d.<\/p>\n

Colleagues in Tarragona quickly followed suit and the Catalan government then denied permission to dock in Palamos \u2013 which, unlike Barcelona and Tarragona, falls under regional rather than national control.<\/p>\n

More than 40,000 people have gathered in Barcelona to protest over the arrests and the intervention of the Spanish government in the Catalan independence vote.<\/p>\n

Many of the angry protesters have been waving Catalonia\u2019s red and yellow flag while chanting \u201cWe will vote\u201d and \u201cHello Democracy!\u201d<\/p>\n

In a television address, Catalan\u2019s President Carles Puigdemont said: \u201cThe Spanish state has by all rights intervened in Catalonia\u2019s government and has established emergency rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn and reject the anti-democratic and totalitarian actions of the Spanish state.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Defiant Catalans Block Spain\u2019s Military Boats From Landing; Spain Seizes \u201c.CAT\u201d Domain Spain\u2019s plan to send boatloads of military police to Catalonia to prevent its independence referendum have backfired with dockers in two ports staging a boycott and a third refusing access. The Express writes Police boats Blocked by Catalan ports as unrest threatens to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[117,14648,13390,672,9099,743],"class_list":["post-26034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-referendum","tag-secession","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26035,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}