There is a popular joke among Spaniards these days, it says: “In what do you think Bolivia and Spain are similar? The answer is that Bolivia has a Department of the Navy but does not have coastline. Spain has a Department of Justice but not justice! In itself and in view of what is going on in the Spanish courts at the moment it is not so funny, but could be considered realistic. Read the rest of this entry »

Last Sunday, Spain held national elections. It was a rainy day in most of the country, almost everyone seemed to know in advance what the results were to be, which after almost eight years of the Socialists (PSOE) in power it was to be expected. Expected in our days of crisis and unemployment. Read the rest of this entry »

More than four decades of violence are hopefully going to end in Spain after the Basque separatist group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatsuna or Basque Country and Freedom) announces the expected end to violence in the negotiations that are beginning today. Read the rest of this entry »

July 18, 1936 was a very hot Saturday… That is how many of those who were In Spain that year remember what in fact became the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, which would last until April 1, 1939. Read the rest of this entry »

The situation in Spain is getting tense with more and more protests in most of the large cities. What began on May 15 in Madrid as a movement of the “indignados”(those who feel indignation) against the country high unemployment and their loathing of the politicians, both the ones in power and those in the opposition, has been growing and not only in the capital but in many other cities. Read the rest of this entry »

From Katmandu to Kosovo the world marks today the International Day of the Disappeared, most of them the unsung victims of wars and forced victims of dictatorships regimes and conflicts. Read the rest of this entry »

On 1980 Spain established a law for the religious liberty in the country. Now, 30 years later, the government has presented some changes to that law as a development to the laicity of the State. Read the rest of this entry »