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Only a few days after the MWC, at the Barcelona airport they have made a controversial decision: evict the synthes

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Airports are By definition places where they land and take off airplanes, where travelers pass and in which one hopes to meet suitcasespeople running, Farewell scenes (and reunions), screens full of numbers and Duty Frees. However, they are something else: the roof under which hundreds of homeless people are sheltered who find in the terminals covered and safe spaces where to spend the night. To a greater or lesser extent occurs or has occurred at the airports of Madrid, Malaga, Tenerife either Barcelonaalthough in the latter they have just move token For that to change. How he has done it and especially when, just a few days after the beginning of the Mobile World Congress and the arrival of thousands of visitors, It has generated controversy. Homeless people in Prat? Exactly, the figures dance depending on the source that is consul A hundred Syntch. There are those who raise the number of people who spend the night in the enclosure to 160 or who go further and talk about around 180 or even 200people who with greater or lesser frequency convert the terminal into their improvised home. Is it a unique case? At all. A quick search arrives on Google to verify that in other busy airports of the network managed by AENA, such as Madrid-Barajas, South Tenerife either Malaga-Costa del Solsomething similar happens or has happened in recent years. And it is not something exclusive to Spain. Similar cases are in United Kingdom, Argentina, USA either Italy. And that to cite some examples. Of all perhaps the most commented over the last weeks is that of the Madrid-Barajas airport. And the reason is basically An estimate: Little union alternative Aena Enaire (ASAE) calculated that among the four terminals that make up the airport there are around 500 people homeless, well above the handful of tens that added just a decade ago. And what happened in Barcelona? That the airport has just been the scene of An operation to evict the synthesch that sleep in their facilities. The avant -garde Explain that Tuesday night Aena deployed a device in which a dozen security guards participated and basically focused on the homeless people left the T1 terminal. In the operation, agents were also involved the Mossos d’esquadra, although they clarify That it was not his initiative and his task was to offer support, and emergency personnel and the social area of ​​El Prat and Barcelona. The eviction would have started the eleven and a half from the night and lasted until the early morning. The Catalan newspaper Precise That days ago there were already personnel who were in charge of informing the Sintecho that on Tuesday a device for the “disinfection” of the T1 would be deployed that would prevent them from following inside, an operation that has already been deployed before in the T2. Other media They pointwithout citing sources, that the objective was double: clean and send a message to the people who spend there. “Paso de Paso”. The phrase is Maurici LucenaPresident and CEO of Aena, who He has spoken of the theme: “Aena feels concerned with the people who spend the nights in our infrastructure. Airports are designed as a place of passage, not to structurally offer pernocentation solutions.” From the body has not come into details, but eldiario.es Precise that at least the initial plan was for the device to be repeated again. In its day the Generalitat de Cataluña, the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona and Aena signed An agreement focused precisely on homeless people who live in the terminals, but that agreement expired on January 2024which affected the assistance they receive. In October police sources They already recognized to The country The complex thing that was becoming the situation: “We make social assistants and it is not our work.” At that time there was talk of a hundred synthesch. It matters where … And matters when. He AENA device In the Prat it arrives at a very specific moment, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which starts on Monday and stands out as one of the great citations of the congressman and fair calendar of Catalonia. The appointment mobilizes tens of thousands of people and the first and last one that many of them see in Barcelona is precisely their airport. That coincidence has not gone unnoticed. Not even for Lucena himself, who assures that Tuesday’s operation is not related to the technological fair. “It has nothing to do with that, I guarantee that,” insists the director of the airport manager. The MWC is not the only factor that marks the context of the operation. In autumn Airport employees manifested in T1 to report that they feel “fear” for thieves and some syntch in the terminal. “Punitive and cosmetic device”. From CCOO already They have warned that the improvement of the safety of the workforce “cannot be an excuse to stigmatize the extremely vulnerable population” and insists that the security of the personnel “should be negotiated with the social agents”, “which is not done”, Apostille. CCOO also questions the motivation of the measure on Tuesday and speaks of a “punitive and cosmetic device for the Mobile World Congress.” “It is unacceptable”. CCOO has not been the only one to show its discomfort because of what happened at the airport. Taula d´entitats of the third social sector of Catalunya and Ecas have issued A statement Also in critical tone: “We consider that it is unacceptable to have normalized the situation of these homeless people and not have planned an accompaniment device with overnight alternative.” Social entities regret transferred to the press that the device was activated for “security” and “unhealthiness” reasons. “We suspend that (these) terms are not used when referring to these people because they contribute to stigma on the situations of poverty and exclusion,” ditch The collective. Images | Jorge Fraganillo (Flickr), Contliciun (Flickr) In Xataka | The Olympic Games are just around the corner, so Paris has … Read more

How the long and controversial end of ECC Comics has been forged

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Even if it is for a short period of time, DC Comics is left without a home in Spain. The publisher that was in charge of it, the Catalan ECC Editionsis declared bankrupt and the judge in charge has launched its liquidation and dissolution, as reflected in the Public Bankruptcy Registry this past Saturday. It is nothing more than the official confirmation of a rumor that has plagued networks and fan forums for months: that ECC was about to lose the publishing rights to Batman and Superman. DC, an abrupt history of editions in Spain. Contrary to what one might think, DC has had a rather bumpy time in our country: Novaro, Bruguera, Zinco, VID, Norma, Planeta have been responsible for publishing its catalog and for just over fourteen years now, ECC . And its arrival to the rights of the North American publisher was not exactly easy: the ADLO blog remembers it! diving into the newspaper libraryand remembering that ECC obtained the rights in a struggle with Planeta (owner of the rights since 2005) that is still full of chiaroscuros. The comic packaging machine. ECC did a job as a packager (in English, packaginga services company that manages translation, layout and even distribution tasks) for Planeta. The transfer of powers, the loss of the rights by a seemingly untouchable giant like Planeta in favor of a fledgling publisher is a strange move, and the official version of ECC is that they got the rights straight from DC. The truth is that, doing all the work of packaging for Planeta when it was outsourced, it had gained considerable experience. However, bad press came to ECC when, after six years as DC’s editor, she decided to launch a minor classic of the house, the ‘Kamandi’ by Jack Kirby via crowdfunding. Of the crowdfunding to heaven The decision, because it was unusual, was highly controversial: not only is it not usual for an established publisher, but it is much less so if it is about launching a comic of one of the majors of superheroes. It was especially controversial among booksellers, since in a crowdfunding which finances and ships directly to readers, the product bypasses intermediaries. The decision to launch more and more crowdfunding (and no less classics, like ‘New Titans’ or ‘Batman and the Outsiders’) and open your own stores continued to raise suspicions. The beginning of the end. In 2020, Panini (Marvel publisher in Spain) acquired the rights in Italy to publish DCwhere Marvel also edited. It was the beginning of four long years of rumors in which in Spain it was said with increasing force that ECC would end up losing the rights to DC. Rumors that have been accentuated as the delays accumulated and the unrest with the stores took shape in a much more tangible way: the Madrid-based Akira Comics, one of the most important specialized stores in Spain, detailed in a tweet “SERIOUS accounting disagreements” with the publisher, with a number of concerns shared by the Madrid Booksellers’ Guild. The authors cry too. While the relationship with fans it was becoming more and more tensealso began to be so with the creators: the cartoonist and screenwriter Bruno Redondo published a thread on Twitternow deleted, about the Spanish edition of his ‘Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder’, protesting the “disastrous” translation and labeling of the comic. The responsibility, according to Redondo, lies with a tool that uses generative AI, which undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, generating a new controversy from which ECC had to defend itself. in a statement. If these complaints reached DC’s ears and could have precipitated the publisher’s fall, it is something that belongs, again, to the rumor mill, but what is true and verifiable is that since the summer, the publisher’s delays and series that are left hanging They are counted in tens. Who gets DC. Once again, rumors abound about the purchase, not officially confirmed by Panini, but which go far beyond “if the river sounds…” (for starters, the publisher itself tweeting that “as soon as possible, we will share official information with you”, without specifying whatbut at a time when rumors were a clamor). Contacts familiar with the case and close to the publisher confirm that Panini is carrying out personnel movements with the idea of ​​creating a department for the DC edition, and that the intention is to leave before the summer, although for now, in the communication of news From the publisher for April DC Comics does not appear yet. Added to the clues that Panini herself is advancing online is the indisputable fact of her experience editing Marvel, and that she already publishes DC in Italy and France. The other possible candidate to publish DC, Planeta, has already announced that it will imminently publish the other important license that ECC had, Skybound (‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Invencible’). All clues point to Panini. Header | DC Comics In Xataka | We have analyzed the scores of Marvel and DC movies to solve the dilemma: which franchise do you like more?

The controversial “whims” that Gignac would have requested to stay in Liga MX

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André-Pierre Gignac He is one of the most important players in the squad. UANL Tigers. However, the French striker has not had many opportunities within the club. Gignac would have intentions of leaving the team, but I would have some “conditions” in mind to stay in Mexico. In RG la Deportiva they explained that Gignac would have some demands to stay on the team. In June of this year, the former Marseille attacker ends his contract with the feline team. The veteran French forward would like some changes in the club’s work team. “Gignac already told the board for me to stay here, They have to give me one more year of contract starting in May and the physical trainers must leave”, reported journalist Willie González. Conflicts with Gignac The reason why André-Pierre Gignac would want changes in the physical trainers is related to a friction that would have been generated in training. The reports indicate that the problem would have been generated with Pablo Di Martino, physical trainer of the club. “They told me that yesterday at Tigres training, at the new training field, it turns out that what they told me is that Gignac didn’t want to do an exercise yesterday. For some reason he didn’t want to do the exercise. The physical trainer Pablo Di Martino confronted Gignac. Gignac told him that he was not going to do the exercise“said the journalist. The conflict between Gignac and the physical trainer would have escalated. Di Martino would have called Gignac a “bad example.” According to González’s information, this would have been the reason for the veteran French forward’s capricious demand. “The physical trainer asked him not to set a bad example. The discussion went to the top. One of the two told him that he was going to rip off his head. I don’t know what exercise Gignac didn’t want to do. Maybe he’s a little frustrated because he’s on the bench. You have to ask Gignac what happened. Yes, they were made of very strong and high-sounding words.“added the journalist. In the Clausura 2025 of Liga MX, André-Pierre Gignac has played twice with the UANL Tigres. The 39-year-old forward has not started in any of the games and only accumulates 47 minutes on the field. Keep reading:– Gignac could leave the UANL Tigres for the MLS, according to reports– Nahuel Guzmán could leave the UANL Tigres– Santiago Giménez sent a criticism to the Mexican soccer clubs– Luis Chávez could return to Liga MX

The 13 nominations for ‘Emilia Pérez’ are another historic triumph for Netflix. But a hugely controversial one

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‘Emilia Pérez’, the film by Jacques Audiard that tells the personal journey of the head of a Mexican cartel who undergoes a gender change operation, is the production with more nominations this year for the Oscarsa total of 13. It thus surpasses other rivals that were believed to be equal or even above, such as ‘The Brutalist’ or ‘Wicked’, with 10 nominations each. However, this film produced by Netflix does not come without controversy, something that at the moment does not seem to be affecting his career. The nomination count. In its 13 nominations there are main categories such as Best Film, Best Lead Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), Best Cinematography, Best Direction or Best Adapted Screenplay. The rest are divided between Best Editing, Best International Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Music and Best Sound. Significantly, despite the 13 nominations, it cannot win more than 12 awards, since in Best Original Song it opts for two songs, of which it can win a maximum of one. Another triumph for Netflix. Although it is no longer new, once again Netflix has won more nominations than any other Hollywood production company, traditional or newcomer to the industry. There are a total of 18 nominations for the platform, since those for ‘Emilia Pérez’ are joined by ‘The Only Woman in the Orchestra’ for Best Documentary Short, ‘Anuja’ for Best Live Action Short, ‘María Callas’ for Best photography, ‘Six Triple Eight’ for Best Song and ‘Wallace and Gromit: Revenge Served with Feathers’ for Best Animated Film. It is not a new situation for Netflix, which has been every year since 2020 the most nominated studiowith a high so far of 36 nominations in 2021. Controversial AI. During its time at the Cannes Festival (where it won the Jury Prize and Best Actress for its female cast), the film was unanimously acclaimed, but after three also very celebrated awards at the Golden Globesthe film hit theaters, and the controversy began. The first protests were for the use of AI: similarly to how has happened with ‘The Brutalist‘ with her dialogues in Hungarian, ‘Emilia Pérez’ has used the Respeecher program to get Karla Sofía Gascón to sing outside her vocal range, and also to touch up the Spanish accents of Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez. But that has only been the beginning. trans rejection Despite the visibility of Karla Sofía Gascón being the first openly trans actress to be nominated, as she was the first to win at Cannes, and also the first nominated at the Golden Globes, the transgender community has criticized the film for its vision. schematic and Manichaean that it presents. It has been said that the vision of transsexuality is made from a completely CIS perspective, creating a film focused on trans problems but with only a transgender interpreter. The activist and philosopher Paul B. Preciado, for example, asked “to European binary cinema to stop using our trans bodies to plant their amusement parks.” Unreal Mexico. However, the en bloc rejection occurred when the film reached Mexico, where it premiered in January and where the issue of drug cartels is especially sensitive. The country’s media have criticized her almost unanimously. The popular Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez has defined Selena Gómez’s performance as “indefensible”, being one of the most ridiculed aspects of the film on the internet. In general, the vision that is not very empathetic towards the victims, but very compassionate towards the criminal protagonist, has also been highly criticized. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Netflix breaks subscriber records, but stops reporting its numbers. The reason: it can’t grow any more

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