In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 file photo, pro independence supporters wave "estelada" or pro independence flags during a rally of "Junts pel Si" or "Together for YES" in Barcelona, Spain. The ...

(Above: His inauguration had a lot of Californians calling for secession from the United States.) I consider the politics of the Spanish-speaking world to be the most rewarding subject of study on the ...

Opponents of “Calexit,” as the California “autonomy” or independence movement is known, can learn a lot from the turmoil created by so far unsuccessful efforts of the Kurdistan area of Iraq and the ...

In a year when protests against federal government has become as fashionable in California as board shorts, the protests on the last Saturday of September stood out. They were for the right of ...

The Madrid government sacked Catalonia‘s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis since the ...

Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young ...

BARCELONA, Spain – Catalonia‘s regional government on Friday chose Oct. 1 as the date for a referendum on a split from Spain, stepping up the confrontation with the country’s central government, which ...

There's a joke going around in Catalonia that when they opened up Salvador Dali's tomb for DNA testing in a paternity suit earlier this year, a dose of the famed Catalan painter's surrealism was ...