Good article.  Madrid has won.  Now is the time to reach out to the other side with an olive branch.  But instead, Rajoy is all about jackboots and jail time.  It is a disgraceful display of intolerance, especially from a nation that should know better (Franco) and now sees itself as a democracy.  The other party that should be embarrassed by its behaviour here is the EU.  Its determination not to allow any of its constituent nations to splinter has made it blind to the need to acknowledge rights of self-determination.  It doesn't need to support the Catalans, but turning a blind eye while the Spaniards move to jail elected nationalist leaders sends the wrong message.  But Juncker is too busy trying to create the United States of Europe to remember that he has a responsibility to ALL EU citizens.