On July 21, 1936, three days after the coup d'état, the Catalan Marina Ginestà Coloma, a 17-year-old communist girl, accidentally became the great icon of the anti-fascist militia woman. She was working as a translator at the Hotel Colón in Barcelona, which had been converted into the headquarters of the PSUC, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. Her determined pose did not go unnoticed by Juan Guzmán, a Mexican photojournalist of German origin who was in the city to cover the People's Olympiad for the Efe agency, the alternative to the Olympic Games in Hitler's Berlin that, due to the military insurrection, did not take place. Guzmán asked the young woman if he could take a special photo session of her. He had her go up to the building's roof and lent her a rifle. The proposal caught her attention, as she had never touched one before. Due to the circumstances of the moment, however, she agreed to act as a model dressed in a militia uniform. In front of the camera, she exhibited a defiant attitude with the weapon hanging on her back.

The Menorca Firefighters rescued this Monday the body of a man between 60 and 70 years old who was floating in the sea at Cala en Brut, in Ciutadella, during the Adam DANA that punished the Balearic Islands and other parts of Spain.

Menorca is on track to break the historical record for air passenger arrivals this year. Up to August, it has already recorded 3,140,000, 2.5% more than last year, when it registered the highest influx to date, with 4,210,152 passengers. The airport then exceeded the 2018 number of users by 800,000, when Aena had the idea of launching a pioneering project in Menorca, together with Vigo, to control its air traffic virtually and remotely.

The Labor Inspectorate has sanctioned Aena for a serious infraction related to the hiring of a worker at Menorca Airport, as reported by CCOO, the union that had denounced the facts.

The linguistic assertiveness courses by Plataforma per la Llengua offer resources to gain confidence and avoid the automatic switch to Spanish in everyday conversations.

This Sunday will mark eight months since a large rock fell from the cliff at Cala Sant Esteve (Es Castell), crushing the villa below and landing right on top of a 65-year-old man while he was sleeping. His wife, Olga, was left seriously injured by his side and has still not been able to overcome her grief. In fact, neither she nor her daughter Carme have been able to return to the house. “Everything remains the same: the rock, the rubble, the damage… yet we continue to pay as if we still lived there,” complains the couple's daughter. This Friday, along with 13 other neighbors and in the presence of her mother, she appeared before the cameras and journalists to draw the attention of political leaders and demand that procedures and aid be accelerated so that everyone can return home.

Menorca is on track to break the record for visitor arrivals this year. The latest data from Aena counts more than 3.1 million passengers at the airport through August, 2.5% more than last year, when historic figures were reached. Meanwhile, the island's inhabitants are suffering from the housing emergency and have had to change their consumption habits. Because in Menorca, one can no longer live, by any means, like before.

The City Council of Ciutadella has reopened the Plaça del Born to vehicular traffic this Monday in compliance with the precautionary measures dictated by the court. The decision puts an end to the 14 and a half months in which the space has been pedestrianized and car-free, following the controversial pedestrian zone promoted by the City Council.

Joan Pons Torres, the gonella councilor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport to the Council of Menorca from the PP who outside of politics promoted insular variants of Catalan against the standard, now driven by the Consell de Menorca, that Menorcan and the article 'salat' be declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Menorca (BICIM). He assures that “young people are already too influenced by central Catalan,” that “they say 'soc' and not, 'som'” and that attention must be paid to the statute, which defends the need to "promote our linguistic varieties". "Menorcan unites and identifies us and we cannot lose it," he adds.

The territorial coordinator of GOB, Miquel Camps Taltavull (Maó, 1963), is warming up to launch from this Saturday, June 13 (7:30 PM), the new summer of mobilizations announced by Via Menorca. An army of ants "fed up with mass tourism" are already walking towards the Biosphere Square in Maó to demonstrate in defense of the right to housing and against those who "suck our water dry until the aquifers are left dry" and those who "condemn us to precarious jobs to barely live off tourism".