The progressive bloc set to rule Europe’s fifth-largest economy has endorsed a Green New Deal but risks fueling a resurgent fascist movement. At the start of this year, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez became the first major world leader to endorse the idea of a “Green New Deal,” adopting the …
In Spain, a father will finally come home to rest. Madrid, Spain – In the tiny village of Tajajuerce in northeast Spain, 83-year-old Silvino Gil recently received some excellent news. The remains of his father, Pedro, one of the tens of thousands of victims of the whims of this country’s brutal former …
A Spanish court ordered the extradition of Hugo Carvajal, who broke with Nicolás Maduro’s government. Now the police are searching for him. MADRID — The Spanish police said on Wednesday that they were searching for Hugo Carvajal, the former intelligence chief of Venezuela, after Spain’s national court reversed an earlier decision and …
Pedro Sánchez reaches accord with anti-austerity party in bid to form government Spain’s ruling socialist party has reached a preliminary coalition deal with the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos to try to form a government after the country’s second inconclusive election in seven months. Pedro Sánchez, the acting prime minister and leader of the …
As the Vox party doubled its seats, a longstanding government deadlock appeared no closer to an end. A Spanish far-right party doubled its standing in a national election Sunday that made clear just how polarized Spanish politics has become and did little to help end the government’s long deadlock. The …
Catalan separatism dominates debate ahead of poll that could redraw nation’s political map The two women who stand chatting in the porch of San Ginés church in Guadalajara on a crisp November afternoon speak eloquently for a large portion of the Spanish nation. “Estoy hasta el gorro,” says one after …
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Several thousand demonstrators banged on kitchen pots and chanted “Catalonia has no king!” on Monday in protest against a visit by the Spanish royal family to the capital of the region that has been hit by weeks of separatist protests. Catalan separatist protesters carry Esteladas (Catalan separatist …
Priceless volume that survived centuries after exile of its persecuted owners finally returns to Galicia On a summer’s day in 1476 a scribe called Moses Ibn Zabarah put the finishing touches to an enormous and magnificently illustrated Hebrew Bible commissioned by the son of a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia, …
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As a tour guide in one of Europe’s top travel destinations, María José Martínez constantly takes busloads of tourists to an overlook in Barcelona to gaze upon one of Spain’s most enchanting skylines. But instead of being wowed by the Mediterranean blue and the sandcastle-like spires …
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched in Barcelona on Sunday to protest the separatist movement in the northeastern Catalonia region that has created Spain’s worst political crisis in decades. Barcelona’s police said 80,000 people rallied, with many carrying Spanish and Catalan flags. One poster read in …
“Long live Franco” and “Desecrators” were painted in graffiti on the Madrid statue of the founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, Pablo Iglesias, on Thursday. In another part of the city, a monument dedicated to the international brigades, who fought against Franco’s troops during the Spanish Civil War, was …
The worst dictators of the 20th century are more dangerous in people’s heads than in the most ostentatious of mausoleums. The Spanish government on Thursday exhumed the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco, who died in 1975, from a mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid and took them …
