CATALONIA
Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell's team is full
of gems. One of them is Irene Lozana, writer, journalist and former
Congress deputy for UPyD, the centrist, centralist party that was led by
Rosa Díez. Well, Lozano is now secretary of state of the body called España Global ("Global
Spain"), which has replaced the fiasco that was Marca España ("Brand
Spain"), Mariano Rajoy's flagship project which was headed by the
businessperson Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros. Under the umbrella of
España Global falls the management of Spain's brand and image abroad,
badly affected by the crisis with Catalonia, the police violence of 1st
October, the extraordinary imprisonment of the social leaders Jordi
Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, the suspension of the Catalan government and
the later bifurcation towards exile and prison of its members.
