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Goods at the port of Barcelona have been blocked for fifteen days now. They won't start leaving for northern Europe until tomorrow., the day on which the famous Rubí tunnel is expected to open, although not for all hours of the day.
If you add to that the fact that the AP-7 is still partially closed and that Cercanías is more than just a nameThe result is clear: Spain is beginning to pay a very high price, even with lives, for a colossal investment in high-speed rail (AVE) that it can no longer maintain and that has ruined local rail services, to the point that elevators and escalators in stations can remain out of service for months without anyone showing up to fix them. All of this, although it has now come to a spectacular head, is nothing new. That's why it's so disappointing to hear Councilor Paneque state: "We found it much worse than we imagined. This situation cannot continue and must end. We found the commuter rail service in a deplorable state, much worse than we could have imagined."
It wasn't necessary to imagine it. It was only necessary to take a train, read the newspapers, talk to the mayors. Of all the statements the Government has made about the commuter rail service in recent months, this one is particularly unfortunate. Did they really not know the state was deplorable? Didn't they hear the outcry from the people? Where have they lived for the last 25 years?
Now the Government has managed to extract from Minister Puente that the Secretary of State for Transport be based in Catalonia. He's not the first and he won't be the last, because, among other things, Renfe, Adif, and the train drivers call the shots on the trains.
Having daily mobility and economic activity hijacked by railway chaos is no small matter, but it's not the whole story. And today it's important to emphasize that Europe and the United States continue to drift further apart. France has sent the Public Prosecutor's Office to search X's headquarters in Paris and has summoned Elon Musk to testify, while Great Britain is investigating X for manipulating content, especially digitally processed or created pornographic images. But the real blow yesterday fell on Pedro Sánchez.
As you know, He announced that the State will prohibit access to the internet for minors under 16 years of age.How he'll do it remains to be seen, and whether the measure makes sense (France and Australia have already done it) is also clear. Sánchez also said he wants network executives to be held criminally liable for any infractions they commit. And I say Sánchez hit the jackpot because Elon Musk responded to him with a Trump-esque tweet.
"Sánchez the brute is a tyrant and a traitor to the people of Spain." Sánchez, prime minister of a country that is not currently in the G-20, has gained stature on the international stage as an example of a politician who stands up to Trump. It started with not allocating 5% of GDP to defense, and now Elon Musk himself is going down to X to insult him. Someone at La Moncloa is doing their job very well, considering Spain's weight in the world, making Sánchez appear as the last social-democratic and progressive hope against the world of authoritarian ultra-rich.
A world with disgusting extensions.
Don't miss this report by Albert Llimós, the pedophile and corruptor, published today. Jeffrey Epstein had a facilitator of girls in Barcelona He would find models for her and send her photos and videos. Epstein's filth reached far and wide: royalty, political, economic, and cultural power... And nobody knew anything?
Good morning.