In the end, tonight, Donald Trump has not ended with “an entire civilization”, because Iran and the United States have given themselves another fifteen days. Trump has found a temporary way out of this war without a clear objective and Iran has resisted and put its conditions on the table. Everyone has lost, in fact, we have all lost, but Trump and the ayatollahs will say they have won. The one who continues to go their own way is Israel, which has already said it does not feel concerned by this two-week ceasefire and will continue to attack southern Lebanon. In any case, this morning we have reasons to breathe a little relieved. And if you want to add a point of reflection, do not miss this article by philosophy professor Ferran Sáez Mateu, titled “Trump: how did we get here?”, in which he explains why people vote for him. “Many voters make a decision based on who they believe they are or what subjective threats they perceive”. Closer, three interesting posts, today. The first: the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has not dared to temporarily move Picasso's Guernica to the Basque Country, as the government of Vitoria had requested.Urtasun clings to the technicians' report which says that with the transfer, the painting could be damaged. The most progressive government in history will not take the symbolic step of exhibiting Guernica in the Basque Country. The reason interests us quite a bit: the work could be damaged. Like the frescoes of Sixena, right?Two: the Spanish government wants to change the Constitution to protect the right to abortion. They did it in France, because the extreme right, when it governs, rolls it back, and because in Spain, most abortions are not performed in public healthcare (in Catalonia, yes), but in private ones. The Spanish government will not achieve it, because to change the Constitution, a majority of ⅗ parts is needed, meaning the PP's votes are required, and the PP will not give them the votes. Why is the PSOE doing it? With the real argument of protecting rights, it forces the PP to say no and alienate itself from the female vote and align itself with VOX, with whom, moreover, they are agreeing on regional governments in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castile and León. And the elections in Andalusia are coming.And the third, and very symbolic: yesterday, the Spanish Episcopal Conference presented some details of the visit of Pope Leo XIV, in just two months. The theme of the trip will be “Lift your eyes”, which is exactly what Leo XIV himself will do in Barcelona when he goes out onto Sardenya street to bless from below the cross that has recently culminated the Sagrada Familia.Without the Sagrada Família, the Pope would not have moved from Rome, but if he came, he had to pass through Madrid (no need to explain why) and take the opportunity to make a trip that his predecessor Pope Francis would have liked to make, which is to go to the Canary Islands, a point of arrival for which thousands of Africans risk their lives trying to enter the European Union. No sooner said than done, here is the logo, of a kitsch and outdated design as has not been seen for a long time, in which the Sagrada Família appears in the middle, the Puerta de Alcalá on the left and the sea (which represents the Canary Islands, which surrounds it). And now for the best part. When presenting the trip, the Episcopal Conference says that, in this act of looking up, one finds “the recognition of God as a source of unity (Madrid), beauty (Barcelona), and charity (the Canary Islands)”.Given that you are chosen for some concept, it is fine that Barcelona is associated with beauty, but don't tell me it's not sensational that the recognition of God as a source of unity is Madrid. Madrid, destination unit in the spiritual, too. It is clear that this trip will not escape the same national tension that was already experienced in 1982 with the visit of John Paul II and in 2010 with that of Benedict XVI.Good morning.

Abortion, Francisco Franco, and Palestine are wild cards that Pedro Sánchez uses recurrently uses to mobilize his electorate and fracture the right, pushing it into arenas where the left is comfortable. Although those in the People's Party, as well as in Vox, are aware of this strategy of the Spanish president, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, does not shy away from these issues and continues her crusade on abortion. Her refusal to create an internal—not public—registry of conscientious objectors to performing abortions has already led to... the warning this weekend from the Ministry of Health under Mónica García They would go to court, as confirmed this Monday by the Spanish Prime Minister himself, Pedro Sánchez: the national government will take the Community of Madrid to court for refusing to create the register of conscientious objectors. In a message on the social network X, Sánchez indicated that the executive branch will request this Monday that the State Attorney's Office file an administrative appeal before the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM): "We will defend the rights of the women of Madrid in the courts." The response from the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, was swift, and she labeled Sánchez a "dictator." "We will defend the right of professionals to conscientious objection. Only a dictator can force them to do what they don't want to do," she wrote in a message to X.

Spain today has a central role in the international anti-gender agenda for two reasons: on the one hand, local movements such as Opus Dei, Make Yourself Heard, CitizenGo, and Vox preserve the Catholic legacy of Franco's regime and, on the other hand, have been able to export their strategies to Europe, Latin America, and even Africa. In just a few years, the State has become a laboratory for the global ultraconservative offensive that targets everything that points to diversity, whether it be the rights of LGBTIQ+ communities, the abortion one or the battle against sex education. These are the conclusions of a report that has promotedAssociation for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, signed by several researchers who have analyzed cases such as Spain, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Kenya.

In 2024, 106,172 voluntary terminations of pregnancy were reported to the State, a figure that represents a 3% increase compared to the previous year and a record in the history of this benefit, which this year celebrates forty years. In these four decades, there have been attempts to reduce the criteria, and in the 2011 PP reform, abortions for young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen were conditioned by parental authorization. However, in 2023, the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez passed a modification in which returned autonomy to minors Furthermore, it eliminated the imposed three days of reflection before abortion, which met the long-standing demand of feminists who criticized the measure for infantilizing women. However, none of the amendments have managed to end the territorial inequalities in access to abortion, a right guaranteed in the health services portfolio, nor the dependence on the private sector. Some regional governments also refuse to open the mandatory registry of objecting doctors, which is useful for planning teams and ensuring that no center is neglected due to a lack of professionals.