Increase follows clampdown on central Mediterranean route July 30th, 2018. Published by Politico MÁLAGA, Spain – After his sister was lynched for being a lesbian and he was hounded for being related to her, Lassana Koulibaly fled his native Mali. With the vague idea...
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Interview with Arnaldo Otegi April 30th, 2018. Published by Politico. GERNIKA, Spain — Arnaldo Otegi, who is widely credited with helping persuade ETA to abandon its four-decade terrorist campaign, says the peace now in place in the Basque Country is...
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11M, still
On the morning of 11th of March 2004 I didn’t hear the bombs that blew apart three carriages of a commuter train in Madrid’s Atocha station, even though I was living nearby. I’d just had soundproof new windows installed in my flat and the noise of the blasts didn’t...
Lyncanthropy
“A real politician…never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy within.” Guy Endore, ‘The Werewolf of Paris.’ Pablo Casado: belligerent and uncertain. Photo: PP The seemingly never-ending stream of national opinion polls in the...
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Spain at the sharp end of Europe’s energy crisis
TV report for BBC News, broadcast October, 2021 (camera: Juan Domínguez) https://youtu.be/xehatna9EP0
‘The Technician’ goes on trial
How José Manuel Villarejo’s deep-status apparatus shook the establishment October 12th, 2021. Published by POLITICO. MADRID — For the past half-decade, José Manuel Villarejo has been the most mysterious and vilified person in Spain. Now he is due to have his day in...
A tale of 2 candidates in Madrid
May 5th, 2021. Published by POLITICO. MADRID — They were born in the same city, Madrid, on the same day in 1978. But 42 years later, the fortunes of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Pablo Iglesias have diverged dramatically. Díaz Ayuso, the conservative president of Madrid,...