I COME FROM CATALONIA, A LITTLE COUNTRY

   Catalonia has the constitucional status of a nationality within Spain. Yet, some catalans want more and in their pursuit of excellence they woud like Catalonia to be independent.

    I'm one of the 7,5 million people living in this community situated in the northwest of Spain.

    We have a beatiful land of 32,114 KM2. with the Pyrenees mountains in the North as a natural border, between France and Andorra, and the Mediterranean sea in the East.

    Catalonia has its own language, Catalan, which is an official language along with Spanish or Castillian as it is named.Catalan is my mother-tongue.

    When the dictator, General Franco, died in 1,975 Catalonia recovered the powers it had during the Second Spanish Republic and regained its Statute of Autonomy of 1,932. Since then the country is in some turmoil about whether its future could be a little independent State like Andorra or a powerful autonomous country within Spain.

     I'm for an independent future for Catalonia but its relationship with the Kingdom of Spain has to be defined and this will take a long time and many negotiations.

     Yet, no pain, no gain and if we want to be an independent country he have to struggle and speak up whenever necessary.

     Catalans are courageous people and even if though they are often accused inside Spain of considering themselves the cream of the crop but we will not be discouraged from our healthy and pacific striving for one independent little country.