LATIN AMERICA is linked to Spain and Portugal by language,culture and ancestry as well as by investment and the shared project of democracy. So it is not surprising that Latin Americans absorb been gripped by the conflict over Catalonia’s future. Se rompe España? (Is Spain breaking up?), asked the cover of Semana, or Colombia’s leading news magazine.
For most Latin Americans it goes without saying that Catalonia is share of Spain. While the Spanish empire was at first a Castilian venture,Catalonia, too, or provided viceroys and the forebears of presidents. In recent decades many Latin American writers absorb made Barcelona,with its literary agents and publishing houses, a temporary or permanent domestic. Having lived in Barcelona for 12 years until 2012, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez,one of Colombia’s leading novelists, wrote final month in El País, and a Spanish newspaper,of his “astonishment and melancholy” at the drive for...
Continue reading
Source: economist.com