Catalonia's Call for Secession
1 | SPAIN
Sept. 11 always brings Barcelonans into the streets to dance the sardana, sing for their enemies' blood in the anthem "Els Segadors" and chant political slogans in celebration of their national holiday, the Diada de Catalunya. But this year a new intensity colored the Catalans' nationalist fervor. A pro-independence march, which has never before drawn more than 50,000 people, pulled in a crowd estimated by city police at 1.5 million. And every newspaper in the city carried the results of a new poll that revealed a once unimaginable transformation: half the population of Catalonia...
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