Catalonia - Resistance in a divided country | DW English

Spain's central government has stripped Catalonia's regional government of powers and assumed control of the region. Residents of the town of Santa Pau don't want to submit. Most of them are ardent supporters of independence.

[amarLoveMore]

The Mexican Americans have more claim for independence on the whole western part of the United States than the Catalans will ever have in Spain. If you would argue that cultural, ethnic and historic dwelling governs the right for independence, then the Mexican Americans have a much stronger claim for claiming the entire western United States as an independent country from the United States of America, the United States of Mexico and the Kingdom of Spain, for that "historic" matter! So, if you think Catalonia deserves independence, then just give all the western United States to "La Raza" Chicano Power - Mexican American, and recognize it as the Aztlan Nation.

The Catalan argument fomenting this independence movement is based on corrupt politicians wanting to break the law in hopes of keeping fraudulently obtained funds.

[MrNigara]

Catalonia independentism has developed since 1980, when it became a regional political area under the spanish kingdom, with one of the highest grades of autonomy, a process of lack of true information to their citizens, an educational program that changes history in order to make of Catalonia what it never was, and the worst of all, a process of racism that has brought it to a kind of fascist or nazi regime. More than half of the population in Catalonia does'nt want any kind of independence from Spain. But those are the inhabitants of the rich parts of the region, including Barcelona. The most undeveloped, rural and village based populations are, with their lower cultural status, in the hands of the politicians that due to their problems with the corruption use the independence for their own profit. It is really a disaster! Now there is a new iniciative, TABARNIA, a new political entity emerging from this chaos, which favors the separation of Tarragona, Barcelona and the coastal areas from the interior land  independentists. But TABARNIA does'nt want to be an independent country (impossible under the actual spanish constitution) but another spanish region, a political process which has many records in different countries in the world's recent past.

[georgezee]

I have a great dilemma with you, DW. I was starting to learn German a couple of months ago and using your German-spoken resources, but seeing now how biased you are about this subject that affects my country, how all your videos about this story only depict the pro-independence side, I better not play any more of your videos, letting you make more.

[MrBoliao]

Time to partition out the Spaniards in Catalonia and form a free smaller Catalonia