‘Let's Talk’ Rallies Across Spain Seek to Defuse Catalan Crisis
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Demonstrators dressed in white gathered outside city halls in Barcelona, Madrid and across Spain on Saturday to demand that sparring sides in the country’s constitutional crisis move back from the brink.
“Let’s talk” said the banners and flags at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona and around Madrid’s Cibeles fountain. The words, written in Spanish and Catalonian, were the top-trending social-media hashtag in Spain as people tweeted photos of the seas of white.