What's the latest on Catalonian Independence? Get all the details here. This is episode fifty-two of The LAVA Spurt, Catalonia Update. This episode is brought to you by Tom Woods's Liberty Classroom, helping you to become a smarter and more informed libertarian than ever before, for just 24 cents a day.

Things have been really heating up in Spain over the independence referendum passed by Catalonia's people nearly a month ago. The president of Catalonia both declared that Catalonia had the right to secede from Spain and then immediately made it clear that he wouldn’t actually be seceding. Instead, he asked to negotiate with the Spanish central government “to arrive at an agreed solution to advance with the demands of the people of Catalonia” before demanding independence.