{"id":49086,"date":"2019-10-22T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49086"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:13:35","slug":"spains-catalonia-crisis-just-got-a-lot-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49086","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Catalonia Crisis Just Got a Lot Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/spain-catalonia-nationalism-unrest\/\">Spain\u2019s Catalonia Crisis Just Got a Lot Worse<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Massive peaceful protests, along with days of violent clashes, demonstrate that the fight over this region\u2019s independence movement affects the entire country and is far from over.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/catalan-protest-independence-ap-img.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/catalan-protest-independence-ap-img.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80\" alt=\"Catalan independence 2019\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Catalan pro-independence protesters demonstrate outside the Catalan regional government building in Barcelona, October 21, 2019.\u00a0<em>(AP \/ Ben Curtis)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>N<\/strong>ow that the verdict\u2019s out, it\u2019s time to start getting along,\u201d Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said at a press conference on October 18, repeating the rhyme\u2014\u201c<em>despu\u00e9s de la sentencia, convivencia<\/em>\u201d\u2014as if it were a magic spell. Around the same time, half a million Catalans were converging on Barcelona, which for the previous four days had seen its airport occupied and highways blocked while violent clashes between protesters and riot police were increasing in intensity each night. S\u00e1nchez insisted on framing these clashes as an internal Catalan problem. \u201cWhat\u2019s at stake is not the territorial makeup of our country, but the Catalans\u2019 ability to get along with each other,\u201d he\u2019d said a few days earlier. One week of major protests, it appears, did not shake his government\u2019s unwillingness to face reality: The Catalan crisis is something that affects the entire country, and it is far from over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 14, the Spanish Supreme Court announced its much-anticipated ruling on the case against 12 Catalan leaders for their role in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-spanish-government-just-energized-catalonias-independence-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017 referendum on Catalan independence<\/a>. Nine were sentenced to between 13 and 9 years in prison; three more were sentenced to 18 months. The charges included sedition, misappropriation of government funds, and civil disobedience. Oriol Junqueras, the former vice president of Catalonia, received the longest sentence, 13 years, while eight other former Catalan ministers received sentences of 10\u201312 years and two civil society leaders, known as \u201cthe Jordis,\u201d received nine years\u2014all close to the maximum permitted by law. (For perspective, earlier this year the Supreme Court sentenced each of five men found guilty of a violent gang-rape\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/rape-trial-spain-ignited-feminist-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cwolf pack\u201d case<\/a>\u2014to 15 years in prison.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s Catalonia Crisis Just Got a Lot Worse Massive peaceful protests, along with days of violent clashes, demonstrate that the fight over this region\u2019s independence movement affects the entire country and is far from over. \u201cNow that the verdict\u2019s out, it\u2019s time to start getting along,\u201d Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said at a press [&hellip;]<\/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":[6],"tags":[27404,117,27403,743],"class_list":["post-49086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-becquer-seguin","tag-catalonia","tag-sebastiaan-faber","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49086","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=49086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49086\/revisions\/49087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}