Resist Spain peacefully, separatist leader urges
by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Oct 29, 2017
3 minutes
BARCELONA, Spain - Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont called Saturday for peaceful resistance to direct rule by Madrid, a day after Spain's central government fired him and dissolved his government in response to Catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence.
The Madrid government, meanwhile, began implementing its administrative takeover of Catalonia, the first such imposition of direct central rule in a Spanish region since the advent of democracy nearly 40 years ago.
Puigdemont, in a brief prerecorded statement shown on Catalan public TV, called for
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