It all started with the reform of the Statute. Or perhaps a little before, after 11-M, which evicted the PP from Moncloa and led to the arrival of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Then came the economic crisis. And the appearance of Podemos, the era of Mariano Rajoy, the process or the motion of censure. And now, the coalition government and the amnesty… and the fury. Enric Juliana has lived it all, he has seen it all, he has written it all in the pages of La Vanguardia from the times of the pact to the moments of current fury.
That experience and knowledge have now become a book, España: el pact y la furia (Arpa), which Juliana, delegate of La Vanguardia in Madrid, presented this afternoon at the Cercle d’Economía in Barcelona in a talk with the deputy director of La Vanguardia, Lola García, and the columnist of this newspaper Iván Redondo, which was directed by journalist Jordi Amat.
“I arrived in Madrid in 2004, at a very delicate political moment,” recalled Juliana, who had debuted in journalism at Tele/eXpres as a local correspondent in Badalona in 1975. She joined the editorial staff of that newspaper in 1977 and in 1991. He joined the La Vanguardia team. “I have, therefore, been politically aware since before democracy,” she said, “but that did not stop me from feeling disoriented and disoriented when I arrived in Madrid.”
“I had been in the city for three weeks and I didn’t understand anything of what was happening, until I understood that what was happening in the capital could not be taken literally, because it was wild. It had to be interpreted and little by little I became developing a code of interpretation of Spanish politics, designed mainly for Catalan readers,” Juliana added during the meeting attended by Javier Godó, Count of Godó, and Carlos Godó, CEO of the Godó Group.
Juliana has now given a new form to that code of interpretation throughout Spain: the pact and the fury, which “is more than just a selection of articles, as it has two levels of reading, since it goes deeper and serves to interpret the evolution of events and come to understand what is happening at this moment,” added the author, who has also been supported by the president of the Cercle d’Economia, Jaume Guardiola, and the director of La Vanguardia, Jordi Juan.
Juliana has talked about the things that happened, the interesting current moment and has made some predictions about what will happen in the future, but she has not forgotten her newspaper at any time, aware that neither her career nor her books would have been possible. without the newspaper where he has worked for more than 30 years: “No one has ever called me to say ‘not here’ in La Vanguardia,” the journalist concluded.
