Today my blog has just reached 5000 views and about 3000 visits. I would like to thank you all for your support. I started this blog inspired by the spirit from Arenys de Munt, I chose english because I realised after having lived abroad for 7 years how little people from other countries know about Catalunya and realising how important to broaden the available information in foreign languages to gain as much support as possible when we declare the independence. We’ll need the other main democratic countries to acknowledge Catalunya’s …

A few days ago, on May the 8th the deumil.cat platform with the support of more than 100 associations organised a demonstration following last year’s demonstration in Brusseld. This time 2500 Catalans gathered in front of the UN headquaters in Geneva, handed a letter (read the letter in French and Catalan) to the president of the Human Rights Council of the UN and amongst other activities read the following manifesto:
Manifesto of May the 8th, 2010
In the period between the Middle Ages and the XVIIIth Century, our nation, the Catalan Countries, …

This is the first of a series of articles where I’ll explain some probably not so well-known facts about the state of democracy in Spain and the way it affects Catalonia.
In 1969 Franco himself appointed the Bourbon (the current King of Spain) as his successor. The Bourbon swore to the principles of Franco’s “movimiento” after Franco’s death on November the 20th, 1975 to become the head of state. He never swore to the current Constitution of Spain from 1978.
Historically the period after Franco’s death is known in Spain as the …