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COMMENT

Of course, ordinary people can fight corruption!

The Bankia case is a good example of how ordinary people can ensure that people in power are held accountable for crimes.

Simona Levi - 15.March 2021

internationally

Juicy fines for coronal fractures in Spain

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In Spain, the authorities have the option of imposing hefty fines on citizens who refuse to be vaccinated or oppose restrictions during the pandemic.

Iril Kolle - 1.March 2021

COMMENT

Is Spain a terrorist state?

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The country receives sharp international criticism for the police and the Civil Guard's extensive use of torture, which is never prosecuted. Regime rebels are imprisoned for trifles. European accusations and objections are ignored.

Marc Molas Carol - 16. February 2021

ESSAY

The world is out of step

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The world has gone completely off the hook and has been doing it for a long time.

Ole Robert Sunde - 5. April 2020

ESSAY

Spain's fascist shadow sites

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Spain's Juan Carlos I was without his own property when he became a monarch in 1975. In 2012 his wealth was estimated at 1800 million euros. Where does all the money come from?

marc@tostadero.es - 3. December 2018

internationally

Heading for a new Northern Ireland?

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The battle for Catalonia could be the start of an insoluble conflict.

joverobe@gmail.com - 1. October 2018

top case

Spain's anarchist roots

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Spain's anarchist history can explain why anarchist underground movements are strong in the country. Classic anarchists also inspire alternative social organization.

Truls Lie - 1. October 2018

internationally

Catalan separatists and anarchists are still fighting

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One year after the referendum in Barcelona, 100 people are still fighting for a future republic. Ny Tid recently met a leading separatist and asks him why.

Truls Lie - 1. October 2018

documentary

Rebirth of a "lost" Spanish classic

Jaime Chávarri: The Disenchantment (El desencanto)

An indirect but revealing portrait of Spain in a painful transition period.

Neil Young - 1.March 2018

internationally

A violent solution

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Already weeks before the referendum on Catalonia's secession, Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy began to show muscle. On Catalan National Day 11. in September he declared that he would do "everything" to stop it.

Emma Bakkevik - 12. October 2017

art

Post-Francoic stress syndrome

Javier Marías: Thus Bad Begins Translated by Margaret Jull CostaHamish

Nobel laureate Javier Marías writes strongly about Spain in the years following Franco.

Kurt Sweeney - 16.March 2017

Spania

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