If former King Juan Carlos I wants to return to Spain, he should renounce his tax residency in the United Arab Emirates. This is the advice of sources at the Royal Household consulted by ARA, who believe that to "safeguard his image and reputation from speculation and potential criticism, and consequently, the image of the Crown, he should regain his tax residency in Spain." This would automatically mean paying taxes to the Spanish state and, therefore, returning to the scrutiny of the Spanish tax authorities. But in the case of the former king, there are other implications beyond contributing to the public coffers.

Tomorrow the ARA will turn 15, and today might be a good day to explain some of that analysis. It's very simple: when you sit down first thing in the morning to analyze the news, you have to use several lenses: the microscope, to see details that might go unnoticed but are and will be fundamental; the wide-angle lens, to see everything in its entirety; and the telescope, to see further and gain perspective. And then, after everything has been recounted and debated, you have to choose and prioritize the facts. Well, today, after examining the most important news stories from every angle, I've come to the conclusion that I can only tell you that this is a stinking mess.

Tomorrow marks 50 years since Juan Carlos I became Franco's successor with the title of king. For a couple of hours, the State suspended the official mourning period, and TVE switched from the continuous feed of Franco's lying in state to the broadcast of the oath of office from the Congress, then the Spanish Parliament. Juan Carlos, who was 37 years old, swore by God and on the Gospels to uphold the principles of the National Movement. He was dressed in military uniform. He looked tired and distraught, overwhelmed by the weight of responsibility.

November 20, 1975, is etched in the memory of many citizens. The death of dictator Francisco Franco marked a turning point in Spanish history: shortly afterward, the dictatorship came to an end, and the path to democracy began. Franco's demise also meant the restoration of the Spanish monarchy with Juan Carlos I—untainted by the legacy of the previous monarch, Alfonso XIII—as king. In just under two weeks, the 50th anniversary of the dictator's death will be commemorated, and the Spanish government has prepared a series of events to mark this golden jubilee of freedom. But the emeritus king, who played a prominent role in the Transition, will not participate. Pedro Sánchez's government has decided not to invite him. The announcement to exclude the former monarch from the festivities coincided with the publication in France this week of the memoirs of the emeritus king – who retired to Abu Dhabi five years ago due to the scandals that led to his abdication – in which he defends the Franco regime.

Today marks one year since the DANA storm that caused 229 deaths in the Valencian CommunityWith the technological resources we have, almost everyone could have been saved in the first quarter of the 21st century. And therefore, we wouldn't have to attend any state funerals today.

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Memory demanding that all elements that exalt the figure of the emeritus king be removed from public spaces. Juan Carlos de Borbón. The association believes that he was a Francoist leader and, therefore, his name cannot appear on streets, buildings, or other elements, according to Article 35 of the Law of Democratic Memory.

"For more than 50 years, towns like Berga and Cervera, along with their town festivals, commemorated the Third Carlist War," explains David Cao, a professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at the UB. "The struggles over the memory of Carlist commemorations within public spaces were very present until the Civil War; after that, they were completely buried, because the memorial landscape changed radically. This neglect leads to the maintenance of biased stereotypes or simplified visions," adds the historian who, together with the Patronat de la V y X, leads the Institut Ramon Muntaner, a research project on the material and symbolic memory left by the Third Carlist War in Catalonia. Cao does not consider Carlism to be an anecdotal or marginal movement, but rather a widespread phenomenon also in urban environments, since there were armed Carlist groups that operated in Mataró, Igualada, Terrassa, and Granollers. "The Carlist Wars are not only dynastic conflicts, but are part of a dialectic of revolution and counterrevolution that accompanies the construction of the contemporary world. Studying them helps us understand the politicization of the working classes, the construction of the liberal Spanish state, and the creation of collective imaginaries with the capacity for endurance," he adds.