Puigdemont’s strategy proves fruitful in wake of chaotic Catalan independence vote

After clashes with Spanish authorities led to hundreds of injuries over the weekend, Catalan nationalist leader Carles Puigdemont Puigdemont now has an excuse for making a unilateral declaration of independence, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Catalan independence protesters in 2012. A referendum held this past weekend on Catalonia independence erupted into chaos after authorities in Madrid intervened to halt the vote. WikiCommons/Kippelboy photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 2, 2017

Catalan nationalist leader Carles Puigdemont got most of what he wanted out of the chaotic pseudo-referendum on Sunday: 761 people injured by the Spanish police trying to block it. One or two martyrs dead for the cause of Catalan independence would have been even better, and no doubt the 761 injure...

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