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Raphael Minder is a Barcelona-based correspondent for the New York Times and author of The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain.
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Spain and Catalonia spar over Separatism Photo by Josep Renalias Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rahoy today took the first tentative step toward imposing administrative control over the would-be breakaway region of Catalonia. He asked Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to clarify whether he'd actually meant to declare independence in a speech yesterday. If he did, the Spanish government is prepared to invoke a provision in the national constitution that would suspend Catalonia's autonomous administration. For more, we turn to Raphael Minder, a Spain-based reporter for the New York Times who's been following the situation.
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