Year: 2020

Juan Guaidó, the man who a year ago launched a bid to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, arrived in Spain on Saturday, where a thriving community of Venezuelans and a storm among Spanish political parties awaited him. Guaidó, Venezuela's main opposition leader, is on an international tour to bolster support for his U.S.-backed effort to remove Maduro from power and lead the country until a presidential election deemed to be […]

The Spanish Health Ministry says that two people in the country were under observation for symptoms of the coronavirus. Both of them had recently arrived in Spain from the center of the current outbreak, the Chinese city of Wuhan. But tests on them came back negative, the Spanish government is not currently planning on taking any special measures at the country’s airports, given that there are no direct flights from […]

Spain’s coalition government is planning on reforming the country’s criminal code to lower the sentence for sedition, a crime that came to the spotlight following last year’s Supreme Court ruling on the Catalan separatist leaders, involved with the 2017 breakaway bid in the northeastern region. Spain’s top court found nine of the defendants guilty of offences including sedition and handed down lengthy prison sentences, sparking mass protests and disturbances in […]

A powerful storm that was still affecting Catalonia yesterday after sweeping across northern and eastern Spain for four days has claimed another victim. A man was found dead in Jorba (Barcelona) after his car was dragged away by torrential rain, bringing the death toll from Storm Gloria to 11. A person has also been reported missing in Cabacés (Tarragona), where he was last seen driving his car. Five people still […]