Jaume Vives Vives (born 5 June 1992, in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
) is a Spanish journalist, activist and writer. He directs the digital newspaper ''El Prisma''.
He is also one of the promoters of
Tabarnia
Tabarnia (''Tabàrnia'' in Catalan language, Catalan) (; ) is a fictional region within Catalonia, a satirical parody of the Catalan independence movement and a movement against the independence of Catalonia from Spain. The Tabarnia movement ...
, a
gerrymandering
Gerrymandering, ( , originally ) defined in the contexts of Representative democracy, representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of Boundary delimitation, electoral district boundaries to advantage a Political party, pa ...
fictional region of
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...
.
From ''El Prisma'' he has given voice to
Josep Anglada,
Santiago Abascal
Santiago Abascal Conde (; born 14 April 1976) is a Spanish politician who has been the Vox (political party)#Presidents, president of Vox since 2015. He has also been the Patriots.eu#President, president of Patriots.eu since 2024, and has been a ...
,
Rafael López-Diéguez and
Ignacio Arsuaga, leaders of
Platform for Catalonia,
Vox,
Spanish Alternative
Spanish Alternative (, AES) () is a far-right political party in Spain. It describes itself as "social Christian and cross-sectional". Its Secretary General is the lawyer and businessman Rafael López-Diéguez, former member of the far-right New ...
and
Hazte Oír
CitizenGO is an ultra-conservative advocacy group founded in Madrid, Spain, in 2013 by the ultra-Catholic and far-right HazteOir organization, a similar Spanish platform that has been dedicated to the fight against "gender ideology" since 2001.
...
, respectively.
He is also known by his ultraconservative views, described as
islamophobic
Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general. Islamophobia is primarily a form of religious or cultural bigotry; and people who harbour such sentiments often stereot ...
. Vives has defended " are the main tool of
Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is a devilish entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the '' yetzer hara'', or ' ...
in our times".
Besides, he has also been directly linked with the far-right blog ''
Dolça Catalunya'', that contains
anti-Catalanist, ultra-Catholic and
discriminatory
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, class, religion, or sexu ...
, mockery articles.
Books
*''Las putas comen en la mesa del rey'' (2013): A collection of ten stories of homeless people in Barcelona.
*''Pobres pobres'' (2014): About his experience living eight days among the poor in the streets of Barcelona.
*''Guardianes de la Fe'' (2015)
*''Viaje al horror del estado islámico'' (2015)
*''Tabarnia: la pesadilla de los indepes'' (2018)
References
External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vives, Jaume
1992 births
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholics
Writers from Barcelona
Journalists from Barcelona
Activists from Catalonia
Spanish activists
Spanish Roman Catholic writers
Politicians from Barcelona
Spanish critics of Islam