Word: catalonians
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...operation ostensibly came in response to ETA's decision to break a self-imposed cease-fire last June 6. But it can also be seen as part of the reaction of the government of Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to criticism that is soft on Basque and Catalonian nationalism. That criticism has stung the otherwise popular Zapatero in the walk-up to parliamentary elections in March 2008. Patxi Zabaleta, a former Batasuna member and now leader of Aralar, a Basque nationalist party, castigated the government over the arrests. "These people were meeting to talk, without arms," he said...
Indeed, the opportunity was closing quicker than he may have feared. A day later, the Catalonian government announced it was embracing the very technology Sarin had declared enemy No. 1. In a press release announcing the region's plan to extend broadband coverage throughout its territory, Telecommunications and Information Society secretary Jordi Bosch said, "The Catalonian government is a highly satisfied WiMAX user and believes in promoting the WiMAX advantage...
...egalitarian and democratic ideals to the death. Despite the director’s apparent clear-cut portrayal of the factions, Epps comments that the film does justice to the war.“The film is quite historically accurate. There was a very good account of the infighting among Catalonian forces,” he says. “Nevertheless, there is an amount of manipulation. All films take some sort of liberties.”LASTING IMPACTFor European history junkies, the Spanish Civil War figures prominently in shaping the events that took place in Europe over the last century...
...referendum, saw an overwhelming “Sí” to the proposal. Just like the last vote on the statute, this one will most likely jettison Catalonia into a future even more divorced from the rest of Spain, culturally and otherwise. The newfound Catalonian autonomy eliminates classes taught in Castellan. All classes in public institutions, from elementary school through college, will be conducted in Catalán. Castellan, the national language will be treated as a foreign language and given one period a day, just like English. Catalonia, one of the richest provinces in Spain, will actually...
...detumescent--plus anything disgusting--found its way into his canvases. He generally placed all of that in a space adapted from Giorgio De Chirico's plunging distortions of classical perspective, which he merged with his erotically charged memories of the receding horizons of the beaches around Cadaqus, the Catalonian village of his childhood. What it all led to were images that were both recognizable and weirdly disordered, sunbleached and unwholesome...