Catalonia’s divided residents head to the polls again

Voters are returning to the polls in Catalonia on Thursday in a regional election called by the Spanish government as a way out of the area’s political crisis.

Voters are returning to the polls in Catalonia on Thursday in a regional election called by the Spanish government as a way out of the area’s political crisis.

In Barcelona, the region’s cosmopolitan capital, there is no sign of the independent country that Catalonia’s former leaders proclaimed with great fanfare nearly two months ago.