Catalonia is now independent (and they haven't told you)

In the end, it wasn't that hard. All these headaches, all these Catalan roads and chains shaking hands, and so many liters of Fairy cleverly spilled on the asphalt to defeat the twitterers... and it turns out that independence has finally arrived, with the gentleness with which the cherry blossoms and the first swallows visit us. It is likely that a substantial number of parishioners - including the eventual reader of this column - have not heard of this enormous change in status, but instead in theAbc They are very clear: "Sanchez gives Catalonia the status of a state in exchange for Puigdemont's favour." Before running off to get my new passport, I look a few inches to the right, at the newsstand, and another newspaper goes even further: "Sanchez links being a citizen of Catalonia to an identity stamp." I suppose it is still being decided whether this mark will be fixed on the skin with tattoo ink or with a red-hot iron, and whether it will consist of a friendly Star of David, a fleur-de-lis or, directly and without masks, a Nazi swastika. Once again, the gap between what Catalonia achieves in terms of competences and what the media in Madrid claims to have achieved is of a colossal width. But the story can bear anything.

Both newspapers set themselves up as faithful champions of multiculturalism and warn of the danger of Catalan nationalist xenophobia. Of course, there is some, but they extend it to any Catalanist demonstration, even non-nationalist independence, a concept that bothers them. In any case, we are lucky for their work in denouncing the stories that prey on minorities and vulnerable groups, they who have never, never, never given wings to the xenophobic discourses that have ended up winning a good handful of seats in Congress.