El fondo norteamericano Autonomy Capital, del que es fundador el ex directivo de Lehman Brothers, Robert Gibbins, compró la deuda del proyecto del Barrio do Cura en 2018. Ahora los vecinos y vecinas piden no ser abandonados ante la especulación urbanística y quiere garantizar su derecho a la vivienda frente a una posible expropiación del gobierno local.

1.1 million people rally in Barcelona in favor of greater Catalan autonomy within Spain

As the Spanish Constitutional Court declared 14 articles of Catalonia's autonomy statute unconsitutional, the indignation among the Catalan society is huge, since this is considered a significant trim in Catalonia’s self-rule aspirations in important areas such as Catalan language, justice and taxation.