On 29 October last, a strong and long-lasting storm was unleashed in the east of Spain with the effects of a Greek tragedy. The regional government, with full powers to act, but conservative and denialist, did not respond to the numerous weather warnings, nor did it activate the necessary rescue […]
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The far-right plays politics with the drama
On top of the feeling of abandonment among victims of the DANA, the natural disaster that occurred two weeks ago, far-right groups have infiltrated Spain and are repeating the same scaremongering as they did during the pandemic. Unfounded rumours for political ends have spread like wildfire, including violence, while […]
Development and politics… revenge against nature
The images of the disaster left by the DANA depression in the province of Valencia (Spain) are horrifying. Despite being horrifying, in Colombia and around the world there will be hundreds of millions of human beings who still doubt that climate change and its multiple crises are a socio-environmental and […]
The deeper reasons for the violent anti-immigrant riots
An act of major violence in the United Kingdom K on 29 July has sparked not only violent protests led by far-right groups, but also anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment, where, among other things, the diaspora is blamed for the economic uncertainty the country is currently experiencing.
Macron, a president in the decline of the Fifth Republic
France’s media-friendly President Emmanuel Macron assumed the French presidency for the first time in 2017. In his inaugural speech, he said that Europe needed “a France that is strong and sure of its destiny and that carries the voice of freedom”. Miguel Ángel Ferrís In just seven years, […]