Controversies

The Adamuz accident comes after a year of incidents and controversies

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The tragic Adamuz accident It is the worst that Spanish high speed has suffered in its entire history, but during the last year both the AVE and the rest of the LAV services have accumulated incidents, delays and problems that have damaged its image as a 100% reliable service. A year to forget. 2025 has chained incidents of all kinds on the high-speed network. Some of the events that have affected the operation of our trains: All of them have been events that, for different reasons, have challenged our perception of railway capacity in Spain. Delays and technical breakdowns. Punctuality plummeted up to levels of 70% in some months, well below the historical standards of the AVE. According to data According to El Mundo, four out of ten trains arrived late during the summer. On the other hand, technical problems forced the temporary withdrawal of part of the Avril and Avlo train fleet due to manufacturing defects, reducing available capacity just when it was needed most. The paradox of success. Despite everything, 37.3 million people traveled on AVE trains and long distance from Renfe during 2025, according to data from the Ministry of Transport. It is an absolute record: 6% more than the previous year. The AVE reached 21.5 million passengers, while Avlo grew from 4.55 million to 6.2 million users. The Madrid-Levante-Mediterranean corridor went from 5.5 to 7.7 million passengers, and the line to Galicia and Asturias skyrocketed from 2.5 to 4.6 million. These are figures that show that we prefer the trainand you like it when it works and offers competitive prices. Despite the figures, the incidents of recent months have given very negative publicity for high speed in Spain. Returns that do not arrive. The recurring incidents, added to the tightening of return conditions due to delays that Renfe applied in 2024, have fueled a story of discontent. Now it takes an hour of delay to recover 50% of the ticket, when before 15 minutes were enough. In September of last year we discovered that only three out of every hundred passengers were able to claim compensation over the summer, despite millions suffering delays. Discontent. We had never used the AVE so much and the incidents of the AVE had never had so much media attention. The competition from Ouigo and Iryo has helped boost the number of travelers thanks to lower prices, but the number of incidents has caused this gradual reduction in prices to take a backseat. And in the case of Renfe, lack of rolling stock It has not followed that growth rate either. Issues. Minister Óscar Puente recognized in September that the system will continue to have problems for at least two more years, in reference to the rolling stock that did not arrive and visited countries such as Germany or China looking for new trains. Meanwhile, the president of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández Heredia, assured at the end of the year that it would not apply the new compensation approved by Congress, which required money to be returned after 15 minutes of delay, considering them unconstitutional and asymmetrical compared to the competition. And now what. The Córdoba accident has been a devastating end to a bad streak of incidents in the Spanish railway system. All railway operators now face the challenge of demonstrating to Spain that the service remains reliable and safe despite the Adamuz accident. In Xataka | More than 30 years ago, Spain decided to invest heavily in the AVE: today it is winning contracts in Vietnam thanks to it

what should be clear between controversies and doubts about the norm

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A breakdown on a secondary road, a car stopped on the shoulder and the doubt that arrives before help: what do I do now to signal it correctly. For years, the response was almost automatic and involved looking for the triangles in the trunk. That gesture is no longer the obligatory reference. Starting today, January 1, the regulations change and force us to rethink how we warn other drivers when something goes wrong. The change is no longer a future promise and is now in effect. The General Directorate of Traffic establishes that the V-16 beacon connected It is the only legal danger pre-signaling device in the country. This is not just a symbolic replacement for the triangles, but a clear redefinition of what is considered valid to comply with the obligation to signal an immobilized vehicle. It’s not just a light. The key to the connected V-16 beacon is not only that it emits a light signal visible from afar, but also in what happens at the same time and without driver intervention. When activated, the device automatically communicates the vehicle’s location to the platform DGT 3.0which integrates this information into traffic management systems. This “virtual visibility”, as defined by the DGT itself, allows other road users to be notified through variable message panels and browsers, before the incident becomes evident to those approaching. Who takes her and where she goes. The regulations establish that the connected V-16 beacon must be part of the equipment of passenger cars, buses, adaptive mixed vehicles, vehicles intended for the transport of goods and sets of non-special vehicles. Regarding its placement, the recommendation is clear: place it at the highest possible point of the vehicle, preferably on the roof, to maximize visibility. When this is not feasible, it can be placed in the highest area of ​​the driver’s side, taking advantage of the built-in magnet to fix it to metal surfaces. Fines for using the triangle, yes or no? Part of the noise around the V-16 stems from a misunderstanding about the concept of substitution. The fact that the connected beacon becomes the mandatory device does not imply that the triangle has become a sanctionable element in itself. DGT Instruction 2025/20 clarifies that a triangle placed specifically is not considered an obstacle on the road and, therefore, will not be the subject of a complaint. From here it is advisable to separate the scenarios well, because not all of them lead to the same result. Using only the triangle no longer serves to comply with the legal pre-signaling obligation, because the required device is the connected V-16 beacon. The case is different for those who correctly activate the beacon and, in addition, decide to place a triangle in a complementary manner, something that the aforementioned instruction frames as an element that, if placed punctually, will not be the subject of a complaint for being considered an obstacle. The problem appears when a beacon that is not approved or that does not meet the required connectivity requirements is used, since in that case the driver would not be using a legally valid device. Without vocation to fine. In this context, the DGT itself has tried to reduce the feeling of immediate threat. In an interview on Hora 14 on Cadena SERthe deputy director of the DGT, Ana Blanco, assured that “there is no vocation to fine,” when asked about the sanctions from day one, although she insisted that the important thing is that drivers get the mandatory device. The message does not eliminate the sanctioning framework, but does point to an approach focused on adaptation and the connected V-16 beacon being available and used correctly when necessary. Be careful with the ‘connected’ label. One of the main sources of confusion is in the market. Just because a beacon is announced as connected does not guarantee that it meets the requirements demanded by the DGT. The organization maintains an official and updated list of certified brands and models.and only the devices that appear in it have legal validity. Checking this list is key, because from today it is not enough for the beacon to emit light or have a connection, but it must have the current approval and the corresponding technical certificate. Four models that were left out at the last minute. In December 2025, The DGT updated its list of certified devices and marked four specific models as “not valid.” This qualification does not imply that they stop working or that their use is automatically punishable, but rather that they have lost the administrative validity of their original technical certificates. For this reason, these products can no longer be marketed, although, according to the criteria that accompanies this update, those who purchased them before the withdrawal can continue using them. Its validity is linked to the useful life of the device, in particular to the operating period of the associated data plan. Quick checklist. After so much explanation, it’s time to go ashore. Today is not a different day from the rest when you get into the car, except for that small change that should be well secured to avoid doubts and waste of time if a breakdown occurs. This is the minimum checklist to know that you are wearing the right thing and know how to use it. Check that the beacon is included in the official catalog of models approved by the DGT. Make sure the battery or batteries are in good condition. Keep the beacon in an accessible place inside the vehicle. Verify that the magnet allows a firm fixation in a metal area. Always place it at the highest possible point in the car when it is activated. Images | Netun Solutions | DGT (1, 2) In Xataka | What to look for in a V16 beacon: requirements and how to check if the one you have or want to buy works for you In Xataka | The DGT’s great plan does not end with the V16 beacons: it … Read more

There is a whole adult book market. And they have their own ration of controversies, demands and plagiarism

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Did you know that it exists A whole coloring book market for adults? Well, that is just the upper part of the typical iceberg meme. Below there is a whole network of interest, millionaire contracts, low blows, Influencers come to more and editorial stamps that go completely unnoticed by the mainstream Cultural, but that move a lot of money. And this is the last controversy that has shaken the scene of this sprimer books coloring 20 semi -out. The panorama. Adult books arose as a global trend in the mid -2010, driven by the rise of products with anti -stress albotade and mindfulness (Do you remember the meditation apps, the Gratitude notebooksthe bombing of crafts and the cross point …?). In this context, many activities that until then had remained in the children’s sector of the market were reoriented. The puzzles, the games and the coloring books began to be tolerable for adults. And everyone dusted their cariocas boxes. Shift of the elderly. However, there were differences, of course: these coloring books adopted themes that had no childhood: mandalas, natural places, abstract art and, of course, the inevitable displays of NSFW illustrations. Quickly A scene emerged Around these books: Tiktokers and Youtubers that colored and gave advice to those who wanted to try at home. And of course, artists emerged who turned to create books with very diverse styles: Camilla d’Erico manga to the Kerby Rosanes dark fantasy. An entire industry. The subgenre facilitated. Among all this phenomenon highlighted a style with force: the ‘bold easy’, or books of extreme simplicity and that Anyone can face Without any experience in coloring. Topics voluntarily naif (although Not always), thick strokes, simple shapes, for pages that can literally color in five minutes. Of course, you can always raise the difficulty and give a complexity to these drawings with some skillbut the starting point was clear: everyone can color. Cocowyo enter. For 2019, the initial boom of adult books He had fadedor at least it did not reach those figures of 12 million books sold 2015. But this new trend of the Bold Easy He arrived to resurrect herand new authors and authors enshrined in this style: Mia Birchwood, Jade Summer, Vivi Tinta or Bobbie Goods. And, above all, Cocowy In Goodreadsfor example, it has 416 different books. Anonymous but successful. Cocowyo artists remain in anonymity despite the popularity of their social networks (more than 700,000 followers on Instagramfor example), and above all, despite having signed A millionaire contract with Penguin Random House in September last year. Of course, that firm multiplied its ubiquity (and more being a study without public names that can be fattened, license and derive indefinitely) and made Cocowyo almost the only ambassador to the line Bold Easy. Trajinar with the algorithm. And this is where the controversies begin, whose roots are traced until the times in which Cocowyo self -published. According to his most staunch critics, the study was an expert in detecting fashions and trends in the coloring book section and replied with very little dissimulation. For example, as Bookriot saidhis ‘Food, Drink & Sweets‘was very similar to ‘Food / snacks’ by Megan Mileyeven in the design and style of the cover. Nothing denouncing, but the similarities were very striking: Cocowyo also imitated the format and size of the book … and the term ‘blod & easy’, which transformed into ‘bold-easesy’. Suspicions of AI. It may be the appearance with just a few months apart from A couple of books with a death cuqui riding on the clouds, how did Bookriot also point out? It can be, but there did not end the controversy. Cocowyo’s neatness made them creditors of suspicions of use of AI for their illustrationssomething that has never been demonstrated. The opposition of the community He multiplied When Cocowyo recorded (not the use, but making them a registered trademark for legal purposes) a series of very generic terms and that affected the material that the competition was producing: “Bold and Easy Coloring Books”, “Cozy Spaces” and “Simple Art”, among many others. Goliath against David. The pressure of the other authors supplied its effect, already end of last year, Cocowyo abandoned its purpose of roying these terms. But complaints have not ceased: authors and fans have continued to protest because they consider that Cocowyo is not behaving as a little author competing against others legitimately. You are using the advantages that it provides to belong to a large multinational publishing house (armies of lawyers, tactics to bend the algorithm in social networks, burst the market with much cheaper books than those of its rivals) to present unfair competition. And that has nothing of Cozy nor of bold. Header | Cocowyo In Xataka | Can you read too many books a month? For many, there is a number from which it is already unsustainable

A alluvion of controversies is eclipsing the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7. The brand is clear that it is an organized campaign

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On May 22, Xiaomi will present the Xiaomi Yu7, its second electric car. The presentation will be at 1:00 p.m.noon in Spain and will arrive charged with another good news car as far as technological products are concerned, as Lei Jun, CEO of the brand, has confirmed, CEO, CEO of the brand, In a publication in Weibo. The announcement comes taking advantage of the fact that the company faces its fifteenth anniversary. It is not even of legal age and Xiaomi already has two cars in the garage. In 48 hours we will know all the details of that second vehicle that will arrive with SUV body and that, According to the brandevokes “A heavenly car that furrows the winds”. At the moment, we only have knowledge of your image because the technical capacities, their power or their performance in the field of autonomy are a secret, beyond that it is rumored that we can be talking about a car capable of cover 820 km in completely electric modealways according to the Optimistic Chinese Cycle of Homologation. But a few hours after presenting the world its new car, Xiaomi’s image does not go through its best moment. The Xiaomi Su7 accumulates controversies in recent days. The brand is clear: They are suffering a discredit campaign. Complaints and 10,000 bots on social networks “Internet is not a space without law. Xiaomi will deciduously use legal measures to protect our legitimate rights against slander and malicious attacks” These have been the words that Lei Jun, CEO of the company, has used to accompany the information of the Xiaomi Legal Team in Weibo. The brand ensures that it is suffering an organized attack on social networks and that the corresponding organizations in China are already investigating what happened. Click on the image to go to the official statement As you can read in the statement that accompanies this text, an organized group would have used 10,000 accounts on social networks to generate defamatory content against the company. The campaign has been active, always according to Xiaomi, since December 2024 and has had as its main objective the information about the Xiaomi Su7, the company’s first electric car. The truth is that the news related to various issues With the Xiaomi Su7 and its different variants they have multiplied in recent weeks. The last of them are related to deformation in the front bumper that, According to the companyaffects a very small number of units and is due to an incorrect installation. However, the vehicle that is causing the brand is causing the brand is the Xiaomi Su7 ultra. In fact, from Xiaomi They have presented their apologies in Weibo for the last two controversies they have had to face. First, the owners of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra were checked when a software update left their cars with 600 hp less than those announced For the brand. The company sold this version as the most sporty option, with 1,548 hp per flag and the announcement that they were much faster and more powerful than Porsche but at a much lower price. Claiming that security was its main objective, The Capó brand this power more than 900 hp and launched a program to unlock the entire power after Demonstrate on a circuit the performance of drivers as pilots. However, the criticisms were so sound that the company soon reversing this decision. The second great controversy came a while later and, in fact, it is a problem that Xiaomi has on the table. According to some clients, the specific carbon fiber hood designed to evict the heat that accumulates in the front It barely has purely aesthetic functions. They believe that its performance is void and, therefore, allege that the company lied and sold them a product under deceptive advertising. Now customers have submitted with a collective claim and reject Xiaomi’s proposal to change the carbon fiber hood for the aluminum original or deliver 20,000 credits to use in their store. Those affected defend that the company must return the car’s money and, in addition, multiply it by two since they have been deceived in the purchase process. These controversies are tarnishing the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7, the second electric car of the company and for which the floor of its factory is expanding since they expect a very high demand. In fact, the company itself already has opened the deadline to reserve the car even before officially presenting it. Photo | Xiaomi in Weibo In Xataka | All cars depreciate immediately as soon as they leave the concessionaire. All but one: the Xiaomi Su7

Its sales are falling 37% between politics, controversies and the renewal of your star car

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Tesla is going through an extremely complicated moment. Like every automaker, the company faces a really complicated context in the United States and China with the open commercial war between the two countries. Although Donald Trump has announced last Sunday that his offensive retracted in part and that partially lifts tariffs on technological products manufactured in China, commercial barriers to cars production and to steel and aluminum They are still underway. Obviously, these last two variables directly affect the company. Although Tesla manufactures in the United States All cars that sells in the country, tariffs also apply to the pieces with which these cars are produced if they arrive from outside the country’s borders. That is to say, will suffer a minor impact than other companies but also faces difficulties in this regard. Tariffs explain from Bloomberg, They have caused the company to stop selling its Tesla Model S and Model X in China. These two luxury options are almost testimonial in the Chinese market but the image of the company in a way. In spite of everything, as we explain, what Tesla can fear are Restrictions related to autonomous drivinga service with which the company expects to gain ground in China now that Byd is pressing taking these serial options to its cheapest vehicles. The international context cannot reach Tesla at the worse. The company has faced some last months where the falls in the stock market have been a constant. To the point that on December 17 its cost brushed the $ 480 and today it is quoted just over 250 dollars. And all of the above must be added a generalized fall in almost all European markets. Sales figures that scare In March 2025, Tesla Model 3 was The best -selling electric car In Spain, registering 1,391 registrations. The Tesla Berlina reinforces its position as the best -selling electric car in our country and puts distance to the KIA EV3 in the accumulated of the year. Between January and March, Tesla Model 3 added 2,047 registrations, for the 1,292 of the Korean model. In addition, in March the Berlina opened a huge gap with the Renault 5, the second best -selling electric car in Spain last month, which added 696 registrations. He clearly exceeded Tesla Model and (589 registrations), third classified last March, and maintained the accumulated of the year with 1,177 enrollments compared to 1,101 SUV of Tesla enrolled. However, in what we have been, the fall of sales of Tesla in Spain is considerable. He Tesla Model 3 It is working at the same rate as last year at this point (it grows less than 1%) but Tesla’s SUV does fall strongly (-27.38%). And their luxury vehicles, the Tesla Model S and Model X, have only sold 10 and 11 units which is around half that last year. In the sum of units, Tesla has sold in Spain 3,169 cars between January and March. It is 11.75% less than the previous year, which also drastically reduces its market share among the electric where it dominated with iron hand. As we have explained on other occasions, the trend points to the fact that in April the sales of Tesla will begin to recover, with the delivery of the Tesla Model and Updated that had not yet been delivered and that they have had the Shanghai plant has half a gas until not long ago. We must also add that The approvalagain, of MOVES III PLAN I should encourage sales. But Tesla not only lives from Spain and sales in the other markets in Europe are being especially bad. In Germany, which remains by volume the largest market in the electric car in Europe, Its sales have collapsed to the point that it is no longer its main market. Between January and MarchTesla sold 4,935 units in Germany. It is 62.2% less than in the same 2024 period. And of those less than 5,000 registrations, 2,229 arrived last March. Germany’s data are especially worrisome. It remains to be seen to what extent is the hangover of the update of Tesla Model and but you have to take into account that Elon Musk has been politically meaning With the extreme right in the country, a really sensitive issue and that has caused multiple protests To the point of projecting on the facade of the Berlin factory an image of the company’s CEO doing the Nazi greeting. On average, they collect in ForocochesticoTesla sales have fallen 37% in Europe. This is a consequence of very pronounced falls in large markets. In France, 11,360 registrations in the first quarter of 2024 to 6,696 units this year have passed. It is a 41.1% fall. In Belgium, Denmark or Netherlands, some of the countries with the highest share of electric cars, the falls are counted at 58.2%, 56.5%and 49.7%, respectively. The only market where Tesla sales are maintained is in the United Kingdom. There have been 7,220 units making this country into the company’s main market and the only major market where sales are maintained. An absolute exception in the company’s context. But why is this taking place? In Electrek He points out that the company is giving substantial advantages in financing but also echoes a information that suggests that the company is redirecting leftover vehicles from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. In United Kingdom They are not paid import tariffs of cars arrived from China, unlike in the European Union. This commercial barrier prevents Tesla from bringing more vehicles from China to countries such as Spain or Germany, so the performance of its gigafabrica in Berlin is key to its performance in our continent. However, in the absence of an extra cost at the entrance to the United Kingdom, it is rumored that the company is redirecting vehicles in stock that find no buyer in Hong Kong to the United Kingdom since they are cars with the steering wheel to the right and have very few options to go … Read more

Between Elon Musk controversies and very low sales, Tesla’s actions only find one: the sinking

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We are just two months from 2025 and Tesla is living an extremely complicated moment. In 2024 he did not get his sales to grow, an anomaly for the company. And 2025 does not advance well. At the moment, we have the performance of two months but the data is extremely bad in all markets. And his actions are being resented. More than $ 100. Did you have 10 shares of Tesla exactly one month ago? We have bad news. In the last four weeks its value has gone from just over $ 3,700 to about $ 2,700. Yes, for each of them, The value of the action has fallen $ 100. It is a fall that some analysts justify referring to Cult stock. That is, an action that costs more for what it promises to be worth in the future than for what it really is worth. These are actions that are based on future promises or financing rounds that promise to be the fundamental pillar to carry out groundbreaking products. In the case of Tesla, the action of the car company has always understood as a good example of this type of case. For years, the company has only given losses And it has been sustained by the support of some investors that They have blindly believed in Elon Musk. After much sustaining they have proven that the company could become profitable. A vicious circle. In October 2024, Tesla’s action exceeded a little dollars. Today it costs a little less than 270 dollars but we have an excessive growth that came to place the value of the action on the border of the $ 480. It happened in mid -December 2024 as a result of the promise of a robotaxi that will be in operation (if fulfilled) before 2027. However, the balloon has been undoing in the last two and a half months to the point that the action has lost 20% of its value in the last month. The diverse fall may be due to the aforementioned market correction but sales are not accompanying. How much is correction and how much of bad results in the fall of the actions? It is difficult to know. The truth is that, indeed, we have both data at the same time, so photography for the company is really bad. Sales in China. Tesla did not come so few cars in China since August 2022. The data is collected Reuters And they have contributed them China passenger cars association. They indicate that Tesla has delivered in February 30,688, 49% less than in the same month of February 2025. The figure is really low since January was not good and, despite everything, he delivered 63,238 electric vehicles. The figure is even more dramatic if we take into account that Byd (who also sells plug -in hybrids) placed 318,233 units in the market, growing more than 161% compared to the same month last year. Sales in Europe. After China, the largest electric car market is Europe. And the company’s performance in what we have been from the year is also being bad. As you can compare in the upper graph only in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the company has managed to exceed 1,000 units sold last February when last year did it in all registered markets. At this point of the year, Tesla had sold 46,243 cars in the European market (adding United Kingdom and the Nordic countries) in 2024. We still do not have consolidated data of the entire market but the data in the main markets are the following between February 2024 and 2025: Germany: -76% France: -26% Norway: -48% Denmark: -53% Portugal: -52% Sweden: -42% Only Spain remains in the annual difference in numbers similar to those of the previous year (although the month of January was catastrophic) and the United Kingdom is the only country in which Tesla grows in February although it also lost ground in January of this year. Sales in the United States. In the United States, tracking sales is more complicated since the company does not offer specific data by regions. In Europe and in China, country data can be traced by country but in the United States the delivery of the data progresses. The last ones we have refer to the end of 2024. When it ended last year, the registrations in California (the main market of the country) of Tesla had been reduced, at least 8% in the last quarter of the year and 12% in the global of the year. According to the calculations collected by Cleantechnicain California, 50,000 units of the company were stopped between the sum of Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. Click on the image to go to the original Reddit thread The rivals squeeze. To show the data collected in Germany. The German country is the main European market for the electric car and the lack of purchase aids should be a commercial advantage for Tesla, if we follow the logic that Elon Musk himself must be applying in the United States. However, taking as a reference the data last year and those that we have of 2025, most companies have grown up in Electric market share In the country. The only ones who lose are Porsche, Mercedes, Audi … and Tesla. But the fall of the latter is huge since it has gone from representing more than 20% of sales to be below 5% market share. In China the news is, again, very bad since Byd is squeezing to the point of give away your driving aid functions to continue adding values ​​added to the purchase. A strategy with which, in addition, Tesla hoped to earn (a lot) money. Will it turn around? Logic says yes. It is very likely that these sales are influenced by the arrival of the renewed Tesla Model and. In Shanghai, the factory had to stop to adapt the lines of assembly, which has had to damage sales … Read more

After the controversies with the wolf, farmers and hunters begin to have a problem with another protected species: the lynx

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The return of the Iberian lynx (Lynx Pardinus) is seen by many as one of the great successes achieved by conservation policies. The species has passed in the last decades of touching the extinction to its recent recthtelogation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN): these felines were no longer considered as a species “in danger” but as “vulnerable.” End of idyll. The reintroduction of this animal could also be seen as a success in marketingwhich turned a stretched and disdain animal on the Iberian Fauna icon. Now that image seems to be blurring. At least among farmers and hunters, as Ramón Pérez de Ayala, responsible for the WWF species program, recently explained, in statements collected by eldiario.es. Frustrated reintroductions. The misgivings from the agricultural sector are not exactly new, but in recent months their complaints seem to have won some battles. The most recent, in Catalonia, where last month the Government ended the plans to reintroduce to the cat. It was not the first battle that lost the lynx in recent months. In October, Ministry of Environment, Housing and Planning of the Territory of the Board of Castilla y León approved the reintroduction of the lynx In Palencia But he left the Zamoran Duero’s cannons outside the project, according to The local press explained at the time. In this province, the rejection by the agricultural sector had become evident months ago. What’s happening. The obstacles to this animal could be striking but respond to the complexity of integrating the feline reintroduction plans with the agricultural system in the new habitats designated for the species. The problem does not have so much to do with the lynx but with one of its prey: rabbits. The rabbit is a central part of the lynx diet. So much so that Fear of farmers and hunters is in the possibility that the plans for reintroduction of the lynx will be accompanied by protection measures for rabbits. Different sectors, different perspectives. For hunters the problem is double: first because they must compete for dams With these animals; second to the possibility that the protection measures of lynx and rabbits prevent the hunting of the latter. For farmers the problem is with the possibility that the measures trigger the population of rabbits. These herbivores, They have denounced Sometimes from the agricultural sector, they suppose a threat to crops, which unleashes the misgivings of the sector to the plans to reintroduce to its predator. The furtivism, another threat. The problems for the lynx and their lace in Spanish ecosystems do not stay there. Last year for example He denounced the illegal hunting of these cats in Murcia, and the impact of this on the probabilities of success of reintroduction efforts. In recent decades, problems with the attacks of these carnivores to farm animals have also been occasionally recorded. A study Published in 2013, he pointed out that in the previous six years 40 lynx attacks were counted that were charged with the lives of hundreds of farm animals. The problem He has persisted In the last decade. Not just the lynx. Problems with carnivorous reintroductions such as lynx, wolf or bear in Spain have become a almost constant confrontation focus between environmentalists and the agricultural and hunting sectors. The problem is not exclusive to the country even of the Peninsula. So much so that from Europe the possibility of lowering the protection of the wolf seems aimed at materializing in a matter of weeks. In Xataka | We have lost track of one of the few mammals that put eggs. Now we have rediscovered it Image | Konrads Bilderwerkstatt

Despite the controversies, Kathleen Kennedy made essential decisions for ‘Star Wars’. Your successor will have it more difficult

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Years ago ‘Star Wars‘goes to the most debatable moment of his long career. It is no longer an economic issue, but about pure creativity: new series and films seem not to arouse the expectation of other times. In this context, Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasarts since Disney bought it, leaves the company, and leaves it without a clear helmsman. Who happens is a more than complicated situation. Twelve years of decisions. In the decade and peak that leads to Kennedy company, it has not been easy, facing One of the most volatile and aggressive fandoms: He has been accused of reorienting the franchise TO THE WOKEbut it has also been said that it was excessively immobilist and was pending past glories. All his ‘Star Wars’ films They have been box office successesbut when he has tried to distance himself from the fee with projects such as’Han Solo‘, things have not done well. It could be said that Kennedy was in a position where he did what he did, he was going to be criticized. Producers against authors. What is clear is that, under his mandate, Kennedy has tried to convert ‘Star Wars’ into an author franchise … while he has collided countless occasions with his creators. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller went out to unbeatted boxes of the ‘Han Solo’ set, Patty Jenkins and David Benioff and DB Weiss were going to revolutionize the franchise and their respective projects They ended up vanished. Currently, the purpose continues, almost as a legacy of Kennedy’s plan, but she will not see it from her position: James Mangold, Taika Waititi, Donald Glover … who knows if we will see it. The Marvel mirror. Comparisons with the other superfranchice owned by Disney are inevitable. Kevin Feige, with a position comparable to the one that Kennedy has just left, has dodged the ghost of the need to find prestigious authors for his films (now the vast majority sign them creators with cut wings Or, directly, Yes-Men Like Shawn Levy), but it crosses a bump of prestige and box office comparable to ‘Star Wars’. Possibly, the first to find an exit will mark the path that the other will follow. That is why they are under the same roof. How is the situation: movies. There has been a pump, involuntary but between which they mediate seven years and a pandemic between the last film released in the franchise, ‘Star Wars: Skywalker’s rise‘And next,’The Mandalorian and Grogu‘, which will arrive in 2026. It is a parenthesis, the result of chance and bad luck, unheard of franchises whose only strategy is to primar fans with medium cooking products. It is certainly the first challenge that Kennedy’s successor will have to face: return the big projects to the saga. How is the situation: series. As in Marvel, some saturation and lack of course has taken over the television faction of ‘Star Wars’, although the results have some quality that surpasses Kevin Feige’s projects. Despite the controversies, ‘Ashoka‘or’ The Acolyte ‘have also collected good reviews, and both the first season of’The Mandalorian ‘ (especially) like pride ‘Andor‘They are among the best that the franchise has given from the films and the classic video games. Even so, these series almost exclusively arrive at the Fandom of the franchise: Lucasartes needs ‘Star Wars’ to return to mass conversation. Broken visions. Perhaps Kennedy was not the producer who needed ‘Star Wars’, who could have achieved the same box office successes but at the rate of one (or more) per year with a less ambitious approach, but it was noteworthy that Kennedy always wanted to find exploitation ways for a saga whose main characteristic is that (except ‘Andor’ and some other isolated case) repeats the same tropes again and again. His was the idea of ​​raising high Republic as a new coordinate to explore, and wanted to take Lucasfilm beyond ‘Star Wars’ and Indiana Jones, adapting new projects, such as the trilogy ‘Children of Blood and Bone’. We will not know what so much ambition would have been. Header | Dick Thomas Johnson / Disney In Xataka | The catastrophe of the ‘Star Wars’ hotel: 3,000 euros per night in an interactive film of 350 million dollars

Controversies with prohibited substances keep Alex Rodríguez from the Hall of Fame

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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner They are the new immortals of the Cooperstown Hall of Fame in the best baseball in the world. All three exceeded the threshold of 75% of the votes required to enter. Other names such as Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones They were very close to reaching the goal with 70% and 66%, respectively. Being able to return to the ballots next year to try to obtain his pass to the Hall of Fame. One of those who is beginning to fall behind and complicate his arrival in Cooperstown is former Yankees star Alex Rodríguez. Who in these votes was left with just 37% in his fourth year of electionso he has six years left to continue trying to get into the Hall of Fame. And one of the points that is taking its toll on Rodríguez is his controversy with the use of prohibited substances during his career in the Major Leagues. Well, in 2014 the player was suspended for the entire season after testing positive for steroids.serving one of the longest sanctions in MLB history. Alex Rodríguez played for 12 seasons for the Yankees. Rodríguez had flatly denied the consumption of these substances. However, a couple of months later he admitted to having used testosterone, human growth hormone (HGH) and insulin growth factor 1. The third baseman of Puerto Rican descent He has enough numbers to make it into the Hall of Fame. In his career he won three MVP awards (2003, 2005, 2007), two Gold Gloves, 10 Silver Bats, a batting title, a World Series and 14 All-Star Games. In his 22 years in the Major Leagues, he left a lifetime average of .295, with 696 home runs, 2,086 RBIs and 329 stolen bases. However, controversies over substance use causes the Baseball Writers Association of the United States (BBWAA), in charge of choosing the players inducted into Cooperstown, to reject him when casting their votes for the Hall of Fame. Even A-Rod himself is aware that his mistake in the past could cost him his way into the Hall of Fame. “I’m the only idiot who has aces in hand and finds a way to lose the hand. There are so many frustrating things when you look back. How stupid can you be? It cost me my reputation and it may have cost me the Hall of Fame“He recently admitted in an interview with News Talk 830 WCCO. For now to Rodríguez Five years left on Hall of Fame ballots. However, in his previous four years he has not been able to pass 40% of the votes, far from the 75% he needs for his name to become immortal in Cooperstown. Keep reading:Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia inducted into the Baseball Hall of FameWhat percentage of votes did Latinos who did not enter the Hall of Fame have?Juan Soto on his future: “The goal is to reach the Hall of Fame”

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