Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo delivers the final blow: Juan Carlos I should return. After everything we've read about the king's role during this intensive course on February 23rd that we've just been given, what importance can the emeritus king's tax and romantic scandals possibly have? How can the king who brought democracy and saved it continue to live punished in exile? The fact that crucial conversations from that day and the days before aren't recorded anywhere is no longer important. And those with connections get amnesty.

A few days ago we were talking about grotesque video of the emeritus promoting his memoirs. The masterful embarrassment confirms that Juan Carlos I has gone from a decadent exile to a television puppet. The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Crown and his attempt to write a book have ultimately backfired, because the media clearly understands that they can extract more profit from the old monarch by exploiting his miseries, rather than treating him as an institutional figure.

A king who is not even wanted in his own house and who has escaped legal punishment due to criminal negligence and the statute of limitations is in no position to lecture on justice, much less to speak of betrayals. But he was king for thirty-eight and a half years (1975-2014), and his opinions carry weight.

The technological capacity to control us is growing exponentially. It doesn't matter if we're talking about spying on the mobile phones of pro-independence activists, with or without a court order, or about the shoe ads you get after having a conversation about shoes on your mobile phone. Because that's the other issue: we're giving away our data like water. But let's get to the point.

This Wednesday, Juan Carlos I broke his silence in an interview on the program Secrets of history From France 3. Twenty-five minutes that pretended to be a unique opportunity but, in reality, didn't even come close to addressing the important topics the character should have been discussing. A sham conversation. They titled it The confidences of a king fallen from graceBut no confidences were shared. And even less about misfortunes. Everything was carefully orchestrated, but, to maintain tradition, it's a farce tailor-made for the monarch.

The trial at the Supreme Court against the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, for an alleged crime of revealing secrets, with a request for years in prison, is a good reflection of where a war for power ends up in which the nationalist right has no problem demolishing the institutions of the State to save it, as they say.

If they thought they could do without him at the events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the monarchy (November 22, 1975), his memoirs are there to tell them they were sorely mistaken. Neither King Felipe nor the Spanish government invited him to the celebration, but Juan Carlos de Borbón has decided to be like Lakoff's elephant, the one you're not supposed to think about but can't avoid.

The fact that they explicitly tell him they don't want him there, that they want him to leave, to resign, but that he should stay anyway, after all, after the deaths, so many deaths, so much pain and so many lies, says so much about Carlos Mazón that there's little left to add. If anything, it's worth remembering that it can always hurt again, wound again, because these kinds of people only think of themselves. And they have an entourage that, for their own interests, also thinking only of themselves, doesn't set any limits either. And the magnitude of the tragedy doesn't matter: their cynicism will always prevail. "There were things that should have worked better," Mazón said after a year. If we scrupulously analyze this statement, the insults at the funeral will seem very mild. But when the public issues so many red cards and there's no expulsion, impotence is the only thing that grows. Imagine how it makes me feel; I'm even thinking of a football analogy. I hope you'll excuse me. It's despair. That does not diminish after learning that the day after the booing he intended to doa reflection"I find it very presumptuous of him to start reflecting at this point. Because if he hasn't been able to in a whole year... Anyway, a hug to the Valencian Country.

If, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Franco were to rise from the dead and be granted the wish to ask a single question about what has happened in the last half-century, his first impulse would be to ask whether Spain still remains unified. But since he could only ask one question, he would kill two birds with one stone (his hand was broken) and ask whether the monarchy still exists. After all, it was his great personal gamble for the future because, in his traditionalist view, a republic meant disorder and a monarchy meant unity.

The majority union of technicians at the Ministry of Finance, Gestha, is demanding that the Tax Agency investigate the emeritus king, Juan Carlos I. After it became known that he has returned 4.4 million to businessmen in his area that they left him to regularize his assets with the Spanish Treasury in 2021 and that in 2022 he would have transferred his tax residence to the United Arab Emirates, they emphasize that it is necessary to investigate whether this is true and whether the update with the Tax Agency was correct or not.

This Thursday morning, the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid was the setting for what some considered a state affair. A crowd of journalists gathered outside the hotel to witness the presentation of Bárbara Rey's memoir: I, Barbara (Plaza & Janés). Her long and controversial affair with King Juan Carlos I, her relationship with her son, Ángel Cristo, and her relationship with some of the most prominent figures in the Spanish media scene are the pillars of the book.

The Leire Díez case series has uncovered many figures previously unknown to the general public, such as businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, the head of the UCO (National University of Cordoba), Antonio Balas, and businessman Alejandro Hamlyn (42 years old), who was due to stand trial in the National Court on Monday for a case of VAT fraud on hydrocarbons. The trial was suspended due to his absence and has been rescheduled for June 30. Hamlyn, who claims that three Civil Guard officers linked to a competing businessman have unfairly involved him in the legal case, is the man who participated in the meeting with Leire Díez from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. As he explained on Friday in a conversation with the newspaper The Mail, cannot leave the country because he has an outstanding debt of 5,000 euros. "People think I'm loaded, but I don't even have enough to buy a pencil. Banks won't even give me a credit card, only debit cards," he stated in this interview, in which he also confessed that all the promises he made to Leire Díez to provide compromising information about UCO officials were "lies." "I blew them," he says.

The everlasting Spain, identical to itself, that ofSpain and I are like that, madam. (phrase often attributed to Ortega y Gasset, but which actually comes from a play by Eduardo Marquina with a significant title, The sun has set in Flanders) was expressed on Monday, twice: on the one hand, with the appearance of former Spanish Vice President Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, and on the other, with the Supreme Court's rejection of the complaint against King Juan Carlos for five tax offenses, filed months ago by a group of retired prosecutors and judges, some of them.

Juan Carlos I had become almost a problem of the past for the Moncloa and the Zarzuela Palaces, but his reappearance as a triple plaintiff puts him back in the spotlight. Furthermore, he sets the stage for the year that commemorates the 50th anniversary of Franco's death and the beginning of his mandate as head of state.

The Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office considers that the ex-king Juan Carlos I charged "commissions and other similar benefits" through his "intermediation in international business dealings", according to the daily newspaper El Mundo. The newspaper has had access to the rogatory commission that delivered the lieutenant prosecutor Juan Ignacio Campos to the Swiss authorities, who in turn maintain an investigation into the Zagatka foundation, created by the cousin of the ex-king, Álvaro de Orleans-Borbón, who paid him expenses for private flights.

Ernesto Ekaizer (Buenos Aires, 1949) does not stop even in the midst of convalescence from a stroke that has led him to be admitted to hospital four times. He has not yet fully recovered, but he has just published El rey al desnudo. Historia de un fraude (Ediciones B).