This week, David Cameron and Alex Salmond have signed an agreement to hold a referendum about Scottish independence in 2014. This democratic attitude contrasts with the intransigence of Spanish politicians and media towards a Catalan referendum. In the absence of arguments (they don’t give any justification for why Catalonia should remain in Spain), they resort to a strategy of fear and, if necessary, violence. We are not referring specifically to physical violence. The last days we have seen a lot of examples.
Last week, in northern of Catalonia, two military aircraft flew at low altitude without any apparent reason. A commander of the Air Force said, laughing: "They have been dropping bombs over there.” A few days ago five hundred fully armed Spanish soldiers patrolled in Barcelona. In the same line, a Spanish public prosecutor defended that Spain resort to the use of force in order to prevent a referendum.
One of the greatest succes stories in Catalonia has been that of language immersion. This system has been key to facilitate social cohesion and to spread knowledge of Catalan among young people. This model, from the first moment, received strong opposition from PP and PSOE. The Spanish Minister of Education, José Ignacio Wert, explained clearly the reason for his opposition. His intention would be to "Hispanicize Catalans students." These statements were fully endorsed by Premier Rajoy, who justified it because "everyone needs to be proud of being both Spanish and Catalan." They acknowledged that their objective is to indoctrinate Catalan students.
Last week, in northern of Catalonia, two military aircraft flew at low altitude without any apparent reason. A commander of the Air Force said, laughing: "They have been dropping bombs over there.” A few days ago five hundred fully armed Spanish soldiers patrolled in Barcelona. In the same line, a Spanish public prosecutor defended that Spain resort to the use of force in order to prevent a referendum.
One of the greatest succes stories in Catalonia has been that of language immersion. This system has been key to facilitate social cohesion and to spread knowledge of Catalan among young people. This model, from the first moment, received strong opposition from PP and PSOE. The Spanish Minister of Education, José Ignacio Wert, explained clearly the reason for his opposition. His intention would be to "Hispanicize Catalans students." These statements were fully endorsed by Premier Rajoy, who justified it because "everyone needs to be proud of being both Spanish and Catalan." They acknowledged that their objective is to indoctrinate Catalan students.
All these actions, right in the 21st century, and within European Union, just make no sense.
I agree with the referendum specially with the one done by Camarón and Salmón where he knows that only 1 of 5 is a separatist in Scotland ,in other words he knows he is going to win, you don´t see him with enough balls though to do the same in Northern Ireland? I agree with the referendum in Spain but we should do it in Galicia to see if the 9% separatists want to separate from spain and at the same time we make a good face wash for ourselves in the face of the whole world. I hope you all help yourselves to my comment for what it is worth the title of the article is in a very Spanish way of saying it BULLSHIT.
I have a better idea, let us do a referendum in spain the british way, in other words lets make referendum in Galicia where we know that separtists dont add up to more than 10% of the population, wow!!, very similar to what Salmón and Camarón just did in Scotland let us see, less than 1 out of 5 wants to be separated from the uk so if you were to do it in front of the whole world they would look like the biggest defenders of democracy and at the same time make foreigners ignore the fact that the same referendum in lets say northern ireland is more dangerous to the UK´s interests, furthermore it is not as it would seem for there are huge payments to be made in case they separate don´t remember the exact figures but I think it was something like no Gdp growth for the next 10 years in Scotland, I may be mistaken with the exact figures but look it up and you will not be far off. If as this article says spain were to supposedly allow a referendum in catalonia what would be the costs in case a yes came out? Think about this question and meditate on it, much of the investments made in catalonia for the past 30 years specially when it comes to infrastructures have come from Spain´s centralised government and promotions for companies and money from the european union, so the question is: will the rest of the european union accept the fragmentation of Catalonia from Spain without them paying the debts that they owe to the rest of Europe? I think that a referendum should be made but with the visible costs of rupture from the rest of spain something which many catalonians still refuse to realise will eventually happen in case of secession.