Magda has a visa
A mother will see her son graduate from a US college thanks to a warm-hearted response
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Devout democrats
The future of democracy in Pakistan is of great interest elsewhere, for reasons that have to do with security
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Spain and Venezuela
Madrid’s offer to mediate in the electoral dispute between Maduro and Capriles merely invites scorn
Desperation
It is high time we had mass opposition that was responsible, using the internet and democratic expression in the street
Non-intervention
The patchwork of the Syrian civil war is more complex than those of the Spanish and Balkan wars, and threatens to detonate further trouble in the Middle East
Bad blood
Hispano-German relations have plunged into an abyss of distrust, and a crossfire of negative perceptions
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Everyman’s day
Cultural fast food joints, the Kentucky Fried Chicken of the human spirit, have banished any foolish optimism about enlightenment
OPINION
Chávez's succession
The legacy of the former president quickly crossed the Atlantic to find advocates chiefly in France and Spain
The foreign daydream
Does Spain have its foreign policies worked out? If we look at the countries theoretically closest to us, the answer seems to be a resounding no
A chance to make the world all over again
President Obama’s May 2-4 trip to Mexico and Costa Rica will involve a host of topics, ranging from trade to energy and security
Lorca's journey
We see the young man who arrived in New York, relieved of the weight of the immediate past, lived there with his eyes open every day, and returned to Spain a changed man
Squandering
Zapatero´s Alliance of Civilizations has become an expensive joke, yet the PP does not do away with it
Pantoja and the mob
The singer’s conviction is just the latest episode in the sleazy Marbella soap opera started by Jesús Gil
Axis of discrimination
The approval of gay marriage in a number of new countries this spring means a remarkable acceleration in the direction of equality
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Just for the record
No one seems to have mentioned that Cervantes Prize-winner José Manuel Caballero Bonald once ran a record company - and it was one of the best in Spain
Soccer is civilization
Religion has generated far more hatred and cruelty than any football match, however heated the rivalries and emotions involved
Politicians losing sleep
The dignitary, the governor, cannot be immune to the monitoring of citizens, when instead of serving, he cheats and robs them
Always the best who go?
There ought to be a dictionary of the clichés you resort to when you have nothing else to say
Iron Lady, not amused
The late Margaret Thatcher had no time for laughs, and even less for sporting events
A waste of the crisis
Economic equality in America is the highest among developed countries
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Almost the worst result
Venezuela’s voters have said “yes” to Chavism after Chávez, but with little conviction
A visa for Magda
An exemplary woman is going to miss her son's graduation because she is Paraguayan
Kingly interference
The king's behavior ought to have been strictly in line with his own words: the law is the same for everyone, and the royal family's conduct has to be exemplary
Conservative revolution
Thatcher and Reagan wanted to liquidate socialism and stunt the permissiveness born of 1968
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Stop, or avoid evictions?
Never in history was there a real estate bubble without the complicity of a banking system to finance it
Zero foreign policy
The crisis has relegated the Foreign Ministry to a back seat in favor of Economy and Finance, whose decisions are now the ones that count internationally
Nonexistent politics
Judge Castro has decided to name the princess as a suspect, pointing out that any other course would amount to a serious short-circuiting of justice
Intellectual distraction
It is not fair to say that Spain’s intelligentsia has been asleep on the watch as boom turned to bust
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Bolshevik indie
Between 1980 and 1981, Robert Wyatt released four particularly Martian singles on the Rough Trade label
What about that speech?
If Gordon Brown had carried more political clout, perhaps the world would be better off today