The Moscow gold
Franco´s regime made hay with the myth of the Republic simply having handed over Spain’s reserves
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The lessons of Libya
Knowing he will be criticized for his previous inaction on Syria, Obama prefers to accept the cost of disregarding international law
Collision in Egypt
Can the army solve the country's problems? Or will there be more repression to follow?
Predators of liberty
"Secret of state" is a limit placed on the general principle of freedom to publicize all actions of the public power
Beyond the wall
That tenacious sobbing came from the body and spirit of a man alone
Bicycle lives and death
A waiter was on his way to work last week when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver
Another perfect article
A few words on the reports that would have been...
De Cospedal
Is it time for Spain to reform the rules of "the game of power?"
Algeria 1992, Egypt 2013
Optimism that violence can be contained is hard to find given the regional context of instability
Dear, detested body
Columnists, like actors, are popularly believed to go on writing or acting come what may
Alert, safe and sound
In the field of the arts and journalism this is turning out to be a bad year, particularly in Spain
Energy bill: a brown-out
The government's proposals contain little that is new, except some spite against renewable energies
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The Espionage Hacked
Assange and Snowden have rendered a priceless service to Western public opinion by revealing the extent of cyber-spying
A chance for Isabel
The opportunity she was being offered consisted of working 11 hours a day for 350 euros a month, and almost no social security contributions
Integrity and venality
It is in Spain’s corporate cliques, and not its public services, where the taint of corruption is strongest
The face you deserve
We cannot control our birthright but we do become what we are
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Colombia: now or never
High Commissioner for Peace Sergio Jaramillo thinks that the stars are auspiciously aligned for a breakthrough
Dostoyevsky’s loners
To get inside the head of the "lone wolf," 'Crime and Punishment' is recommended reading
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The cost-free bailout
The government’s legitimacy in propping up banks depended on its financial neutrality
Democratic illiteracy
Creating stability counted for more than creating a democratic culture during the Transition. The result: an opaque regime that is growing ever more so
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Vee-Jay lost The Beatles
The Chicago firm in 1963 signed a contract to release The Beatles' records in the United States but it lost that license to print money out of mere fecklessness.
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Kerry’s faith
There are short and long views of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which condition the observer’s vision
Time for politics
The Catalan independence project is a political problem and it is nonsense to treat it otherwise
The growth of inequality
Recovery seems to be returning, but redistribution of wealth in the US is at 1920s levels
Dead end in Egypt
Trying to explain events in terms of the Muslim Brotherhood's “mistakes” leads nowhere
7-25-50
Three numbers that help us understand our present and think about our future as Europeans
Twice as brief
The joys of aphorisms
I'm back
Old Europe remains stuck in the mud, entangled in its governance of the euro, with an unfavorable demography
Don't dig in, just go
It is getting harder and harder to understand the indifference of those who stoically accept, or even excuse, the recurrent corruption scandals as part of our daily life