This weekend, after listening to Roger Escapa's interview on Montse Venturós, former mayor of Berga, and read the book almost in one sitting The Republican Rift, by journalists Adrià Santasusagna and Bernat Vilaró, I have understood to what extent the human factor also has a decisive weight in the world of politics and, therefore, in the history of a country.

On July 6, 2021, the mayor of Berga since 2015, Montse Venturós, announced that she was leaving the mayor's office due to the depression she had been suffering from for six months, which had led her to take leave. In a press conference in the capital of Berguedà, the CUP mayor justified her departure by the need to recover and the impossibility of assuming the responsibilities entailed by the position she held until then. Four years later, Venturós has broken her silence and in an interview with The Supplement from Catalunya Ràdio has given details of how she experienced the mental illness that removed her from the political frontline.