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Pujol, cacique

Posted: November 15th 2008 17:55.

It’s not exactly a secret that Catalonia is currently run by spiteful, greedy, semi-literate buffoons, but our leaders’ protest re the Economist’s description of ex-regional president Jordi Pujol as a cacique should help to convince anyone still in doubt. The Oxford English Dictionary defines cacique thus:
2. In Spain or Latin America, a man who owes [...]

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

Getting round Spanish bureaucratic madness

Posted: November 10th 2008 07:52. Last modified: November 10th 2008 07:54

Foreigners used to have to wheel a barrow of photocopies around half a dozen offices to be rewarded with a small laminated residency card. Then residency cards were declared obsolete, the only catch being that for most kinds of transactions they were not, Spanish practice not quite keeping up with Ayooropean theory. So foreigners had [...]

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Splog

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  • July 31 1568 Recíbese por un anónimo la noticia de que el primogénito de Felipe II estaba sin esperanzas de vida.
  • July 31 1808 On the 31st of July the Impérieuse silenced, and Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French,...
  • July 31 1848 En la iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Sra. de Belen que fue de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesus, se celebra con toda solemnidad, la fiesta de san Ignacio de Loyola. Las religiosas de la Enseñanza de la misma órden tributan tambien á este fundador solemnes cultos.
  • July 31 1909 APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
    HENRY DALMASES. July 31, 1909, Saturday I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanish Eastern points are classed as ma...
  • July 31 1909 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow — Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, by Way of the French Frontier, July 31...
  • July 31 1909 AMERICANS IN BARCELONA.; Feared Two Women Cousins of Mrs. Lemoine, the Actress, Are Victims.
  • July 31 1926 Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he “received an enthusias...

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