"Since this plenary session will be broadcast online and can be seen by everyone around the world, and surely many Venezuelans in South America, I will say it in Spanish: From Juntos we celebrate the fall of Mr. Maduro..." Jordi Puigneró, deputy mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès and former vice president of the Catalan government, justified his switch to Catalan last Friday during the January plenary session. Since then, Puigneró has faced a barrage of criticism on social media for refusing to present his arguments in Catalan. This Tuesday, the Catalan Minister of Language Policy, Francesc Xavier Vila, seized on the situation, pointing out the double standards of the Junts party: "When push comes to shove, the standards they apply to themselves are more lenient than those they demand of others."

Dozens of Catalan writers, editors, agents and booksellers They are landing in Mexico, where from November 29 to December 7 the 39th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), the second most important book fair in the world, will be held, only surpassed by FrankfurtThe presence of Barcelona as the guest city of honor – with 80% of authors writing in Catalan and 20% in Spanish – is a good time to analyze What Catalan literature is read in the world And in which languages, what are the sector's strengths, and what challenges lie ahead?

This morning marked the 85th anniversary of the execution of President Lluís Companys by the Spanish government. The President of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Salvador Illa, laid a wreath at the foot of Companys's grave in the Fossar de la Pedrera in the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona.