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1. Moncloa refuses to list the identity and CV of its 127 advisers in the delegations. This workforce receives the highest levels of remuneration existing within the General State Administration – from 26 to 30 – and in the last Budgets they allocate 6.1 million euros, 11 percent of the total expenditure on trust personnel. The deputy spokesperson for Vox, Macarena Olona, claims to know the identifications, academic training and professional trajectory of this special advisory staff. However, the Government has replied in writing that “it is not appropriate” to meet his request “because it affects personal data.” An answer that the group chaired by Santiago Abascal is studying to take to court. “They are personnel paid with public money,” emphasizes Olona, flatly rejecting that the identities of these types of charges can be hidden, alluding to data protection.
2. The three cards with bullets were thrown at the same time and a guard ignored them on the scanner. The three letters with bullets received last week by Pablo Iglesias, Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the general director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, were deposited at the same time in a Post Office box, as evidenced by the fact that they passed consecutively by the conveyor belt and the X-ray scanner at 17:48 on Monday the 19th. This is the conclusion that the researchers have reached with certainty, as confirmed by ABC. The same person, as indicated by the similarity of content and presentation of the letters, who chose the same place and time to launch his three threats. The security guard who supervised that scanner did not detect any of them, according to Correos, so he has opened a file with the company to which his security is assigned.
3. Hell in India: “What is most worrying is that the vaccinated are getting infected.” While on the Twitter account of the Indian Ministry of Health, the Government celebrates the number of recovered, Indian citizens analyze their situation with little or no optimism. “There are queues to burn bodies, the morgues are collapsed,” laments a citizen living in Bombay. In this famous city, a new variant is rampant and could explain the devastation that Covid is causing in the country, according to ‘Nature’. It is not difficult to think how bad the situation is there if you have ever visited the country’s capital: an overcrowded city, with millions of people moving on foot, by car or ‘tuk-tuk’ (three-wheeled vehicle) dodging cows in middle of the street and with impressive temples rising among huge amounts of rubbish.
4. The Greens of Germany reach the first place in the electoral polls. With a good program and a Social Democratic Party (SPD) that pays the electoral bill of having governed with Angela Merkel, the Greens easily connect with the German middle class, social causes, youth and the urban population. They are a feigned new center, they put a face to a fresh common sense that, when the time comes and as it was decided in the congress, will govern with whoever is necessary. The latest polls place them as the first party with the most votes with 28%, surpassing Merkel’s CDU, with 27% and from whose downward trend they benefit. Behind and without major aspirations, are SPD (13%), FDP (10%), Alternative for Germany (AfD) (10%) and Die Linke (The Left) (7%). To form the next government, the essential token is green.
5. The Chinese look on the end of the American dream conquers Hollywood in the most anodyne Oscars. The Oscars began with Regina King entering the Union Station stage to the rhythm of the trumpet as if it were a scene from ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, and ended with the empty stage after the last Oscar of the night, the one for best actor – something unpublished. – out for an Anthony Hopkins who didn’t show up. It was the most abrupt and strange closing of any gala in remembrance, with the exception of the ‘La la land’ incident. Until then, the Oscars were a litany of speeches that filled what was supposed to be a party with solemnity. But at that point it did not matter: the Oscars had managed to celebrate the first post-pandemic face-to-face gala in an event full of glamor, stars and a lot of cinema. With that ‘leitmotiv’, only ‘Nomadland’ could win the Oscar for best film, the most ‘author’ film of the nominees, for which Chloé Zhao also won the best director and best adapted screenplay.
6. Nadal, a jump in his trip to the sky of Paris. Whenever Rafael Nadal wins something, the waterfall of data arrives, which never ceases to amaze. From Barcelona it is worth noting the following: the Balearic has already held 87 titles in his career and has Ivan Lendl relatively close (94), third in a list dominated by Jimmy Connors (109) and Roger Federer (103). Of those 87 trophies, 61 have come on clay, no one has achieved that much. In addition, Barcelona is his fourteenth ATP 500. He has been 18 seasons (since 2004) with at least one title. And, not least, he jumps to second place in the ATP rankings and unseats Russian Daniil Medvedev, although Novak Djokovic remains very far (more than 2,000 points apart).
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