{"id":49188,"date":"2019-10-27T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49188"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:31:27","slug":"the-crisis-in-catalonia-what-i-saw-in-our-neighborhood-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49188","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis in Catalonia & What I Saw in Our Neighborhood in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Crisis in Catalonia & What I Saw in Our Neighborhood in Barcelona <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As separatist region is rocked by violence, businesses sound alarm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of Catalonia\u2019s biggest business associations, Foment de Treball and Pimec, have called for calm and dialogue<\/a> after ten days of non-stop political and civil unrest in the separatist region of Spain. At a gathering of almost 450 Catalan business people and executives on Wednesday, the two associations called for a political solution to what they described as \u201cthe grave conflict we are living through in Catalonia,\u201d a region that is riven down the middle by the question of independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key passage in the event\u2019s joint manifesto hinted at why the crisis shows no sign of abating: \u201cIt is the responsibility of politicians, and not the justice system,\u201d to find an \u201ceffective and decisive\u201d solution to this conflict. Unfortunately, political dialogue and negotiation have been sorely lacking in relations between Barcelona and Madrid for a number of years. And there\u2019s little sign of that changing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As general elections approach, Spain\u2019s main political parties, with the notable exception of the left-wing Podemos, are hardening their stance toward the Catalan separatists. For its part, the separatist government in Barcelona is doubling down on its calls for independence.\u00a0If the elections on November 10 deliver enough votes for the triumvirate of Spain\u2019s right-wing parties (the People\u2019s Party, Cuidadanos and the far-right Vox, whose support appears to be growing) to form a coalition, they will crack down\u00a0even harder\u00a0on Catalan nationalism, which is likely to fuel even stronger pro-independence sentiment in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little more than two years have passed since more than two million people in Catalonia voted in a banned referendum to leave Spain. On that day, the separatists were given a harsh lesson in the raw power of state violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Crisis in Catalonia & What I Saw in Our Neighborhood in Barcelona As separatist region is rocked by violence, businesses sound alarm. Two of Catalonia\u2019s biggest business associations, Foment de Treball and Pimec, have called for calm and dialogue after ten days of non-stop political and civil unrest in the separatist region of Spain. At a […]<\/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":[117,2132,27230,16231,743,854,4255],"class_list":["post-49188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-civil-unrest","tag-nick-corbishley","tag-separatism","tag-spain","tag-violence","tag-wolfstreet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49188","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=49188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49189,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49188\/revisions\/49189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}