Pro-independence protesters obstructed major roads and a high-speed railway line in Spain's Catalonia region on Monday, one year after a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.

Pro-independence protesters in Catalonia block roads, railway line: Reports

Over the past month, social media networks have been flooded with memes poking fun at the main players in Spain's biggest political crisis since returning to democracy following the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975

Spain finds humour in Catalan crisis

'It would be good to start mending this fracture... through regional elections,' government spokesman Ignacio Mendez de Vigo told a news conference

Spain urges Catalan election to settle independence crisis