Catalonia’s Independence Showdown With Spain, in Photographs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/europe/spain-catalonia-independence.html

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In dueling declarations, Spain’s Senate voted Friday to approve emergency measures to impose direct rule on Catalonia and to oust its separatist leaders, shortly after the restive region’s Parliament passed a resolution claiming independence. This set up a showdown over the weekend, as Spain careened into its greatest constitutional crisis since it embraced democracy in 1978.