Venezuela: Our democracy is about protecting
An economy that is pure speculation and does not prioritize the prosperity and sovereignty of the people means famine today and feast tomorrow
Opinion
Toxic networks: Legislating against disinformation
With fake news and money, Putin and his retinue of propagandists are encouraging populism
Subduing the State
What happened in Catalonia could never have occurred if secessionists had not enjoyed decades of power and public resources to organize the sedition
An anti-European European parliament
Russia could intervene decisively in the elections next year via social networks
The Catalan independence push: a catalogue of violence
While the images from protests may look festive, the secessionist campaign has been anything but peaceful
An open letter: Why Germany should extradite Carles Puigdemont
The former Catalan premier has committed serious crimes, violated the Spanish Constitution, threatened our democracy and put social peace in jeopardy
To the Goya film awards... In my pajamas
#MeToo cannot just be limited to a fleeting hashtag, writes Spanish film director Isabel Coixet. It should lead to genuine change between men and women
A compromise for Catalonia?
Catalan separatists won’t win independence for their region. But they could achieve far-reaching constitutional reform
Fake news
RT, Sputnik and the new Russian war
Dubious sources, alarmist headlines and artificial bloating of audiences: how the Kremlin spreads fake news
One example of how Catalan separatists manipulate history
Catalonia is fighting to keep medieval artworks that were taken from the neighboring region of Aragón
How NATO can combat sexual violence in conflict
Alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg and Angelina Jolie discuss ways to change perceptions about what is often considered a lesser crime
Opinion
It’s a dog-eat-dog world
Nevenka spoke out against sexual harassment but was isolated by both her peers and enemies
Russia, misinformation and social networks
Moscow is still doing what it has always done, but now it is focusing on the negation of democracy
A letter to some of my European colleagues
Spain has many defects, but the restoration of Franco’s dictatorship is not one of them
Thanks, Rafael
After 27 years and 75 titles together, Toni Nadal will no longer be training his nephew Rafa. The most acclaimed coach in tennis history describes his feelings in EL PAÍS as he closes this chapter of his life
A vote for Europe
Italy, France and Spain are asking for transnational candidate lists for the 2019 European elections
My name is Justiniano Martínez, and I really was a political prisoner
“I am not sympathetic to demands for freedom from people who have enjoyed nothing but freedom their entire lives,” writes this former secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party
Brexit and the ‘process’
Neither one is inevitable, as illustrated by the cases of Italy’s Padania and the Basque Country
Anglocondescension
We are sorry to have disappointed you. But maybe we Spaniards have grown up and no longer need to be lectured
Europe, believe Hezbollah – it’s exactly the terror organization it says it is
Hezbollah itself confirms over and over again that it is a terrorist organization through assassinations, bombings, and rocket attacks
The 1978 system
We are currently faced with the most serious threat to our democracy since the Spanish Constitution was approved, writes EL PAÍS chairman Juan Luis Cebrián
Orwell and Catalan doublespeak
Far from being a state clinging on to a Francoist past, Spaniards and Catalans love democracy
Catalonia in the fall
It is hard to explain to faraway friends just how far the Catalan government has gone in its populist interpretation of a democracy without rules
An ironclad law
If leaders only work in their own interests, they will run up against the rule that bad governance leads to catastrophe
‘Most honorable premier’
If Puigdemont confirms the declaration of independence, Catalonia would have the right to be heard in the Senate
Why Spain is right to defend its democracy in face of Catalonia crisis
The Spanish Constitution cannot be torn up by the illegal and seditious acts of a tiny minority, Dublin-based lawyer Isabel Foley argues
In Francoland
Both Europe and America love what they see as Spain’s quaint backwardness so much that they feel insulted if we explain to them how much we have changed
Fall of ’59, summer of ’66
An open letter by Juan Marsé, one of Spain’s great living writers, to the late poet Jaime Gil de Biedma. The missive was inspired by events in Catalonia this week, after Gil de Biedma’s poem, ‘Sad October Night,’ began to circulate on social networks
Who are the traitors in Catalonia?
Pro-independence economist Xavier Sala i Martín says banks’ decision to leave region is a form of political intimidation