While Cuba celebrates today its National Rebellion Day, the question people are asking themselves more and more is if the country is changing. After the pressure of the Catholic Church and the appeals of Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, Cuban president Raul Castro has agreed to release 52 political prisoners, of the so-called Group of 75, who were imprisoned since 2003 for “counter-revolutionary activities.” Read the rest of this entry »

France has just taken a major step to ban the burqa from its territory. In a 335-to-one in favor the country’s National Assembly has voted against the women wearing a full face veil such as a burqa or niqab in public. 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 »

There are times when one cannot believe the news. Specially when they come from supposedly democratic countries. Such a thing is what has been going on for a while in Spain with their judiciary system. Read the rest of this entry »

The chaos in European airports due to a volcanic ash plume from Iceland continue today and nobody knows really when things will go back more or less to normality. The hope is this weekend those hundreds of thousands of travelers who have been stranded all over Europe will be able to reach their destinations. Read the rest of this entry »

In Spain, part of what is know as “Historic Memory Law” has given the right to apply for Spanish nationality to the children and grandchildren of people who were forced into exile during the Spanish Civil War and the years of Franco’s dictatorship. Read the rest of this entry »

Thirty five years after the death of the Spanish dictator Franco, Falange, the fascist Spanish party is still active in Spain. Now, together with Manos Limpias, a Spanish ultra-right civil servants’ trade union organization, they have filed a case against judge Baltasar Garzón, internationally well know for indicting Osama bin Laden and the Chilean dictator Pinochet. Read the rest of this entry »