spain has been never famous for respect minor cultures... catalans probably have more liberty now than with Franco, but this not means they have plenty liberty now.
I see that the latter years the nationalism Catalan nationalist has been doing a big work of marketing counting lies.
Clearly Spain is a Constitutional state, with a constitution and a few laws that all the autonomous regions have to respect.
The nationalism Catalan nationalist, an invention prefabricated simply uses his arguments to try to go out privileged to the detriment of other regions, this is all the freedom for that they look: more money.
The Dictator Franco continued the line of the Borbones that was to privilege and to be of benefit to the regions of Catalonia and Basque Country, this way of simple, otherwise economically they would not have come to any place. At present the whole pataleo that the nationalists bring is to keep on being privileged, but the times have changed and that will not be possible.
Also all the Catalans do not think equally, all this of the nationalism of the regions is an invention, a machinery to extract money. Only 5 % of what is made in Catalonia sells abroad, the rest sells in Spain, aftermath of the Franco period, the nationalists are the last ones who want to separate of Spain.
One of his lies is to convince to the world that they are the only victims of the Dictatorship of Franco.
The Catalan nationalism is directed by 3 ó 4 related families between yes, that have managed to create all his world of fantasy and to implant it in the brain to some young people, they need to keep on having followers, fleecy clouds to continue in the power.
At present the Catalan nationalism is leading to Catalonia to the ruin, because they are simply bogeys that the only thing that they claim is to pillage the Spanish State: otherwise why do not they separate?: what do they already give?: do not they it do truth?, logician, they are not interested in.