We must turn back. November 4, 1926, which shouldn't have been, but it was. Courtyard of the Perpignan barracks. Look at them: "All the prisoners are gathered, in formation, with the flag. When Macià appears, accompanied by Bordas de la Cuesta, an impressive silence falls. All eyes are fixed on him as he advances slowly. Then he stops and begins to speak. They are words of affirmation, words of hope, of hope for the ungrateful present. The ideal remains burning brightly and is the main focus of the task to be done. Catalans!

Born in Òdena in 1990, Josep Vicenç Mestre holds a doctorate cum laude and has received an award for the best doctoral thesis in Catalan from the Pompeu Fabra University for his study on the analysis of the speeches of the presidents of Catalonia between 1914 and 1933. This thesis gave rise to the book President's remarks. Nation and State in the speeches of Prat de la Riba, Puig i Cadafalch, and Macià (Editorial Asuntos, 2024). He is an associate professor at UPF and a former advisor to the Junts government and to the Parliamentary Speaker Laura Borràs.

He chaos that took place a few days ago in Plaza de Espanya Barcelona is now reproduced above, by Francesc Macià. "It takes me 30 minutes to cover a stretch that I normally do in 5 minutes maximum." This was the complaint, on Monday morning, of a driver from Sant Feliu de Llobregat who works in Barcelona and normally enters via the Diagonal. Conversation with the ARA stopped at a traffic light, metro waits, resigned, for the bottleneck to clear and traffic to flow. But this Tuesday the situation has repeated itself.