Feltrinelli, the aristocratic publisher who fought against injustice with cheap books and bombs
El 28 de marzo de 1972, miles de personas se reunieron en el Cimitero Monumentale de Milán para despedir a Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Ese martes, la emotividad habitual de ese tipo de acontecimientos cedió su lugar a la tensión, los nervios y la indignación. Decenas de policías, de uniforme y de incógnito, pertrechados algunos con material […]
Secret parties and bombs at the beginning of 2024 in Ukraine
Special envoy in KyivHe Techno It’s obsessive, rigid, wild music with metallic noises. Sign up for the international newsletter What seems far away is more important than ever Sign up for it It is also the music that Ukrainian soldiers listen to most to escape another obsessive, rigid, wild, metallic symphony: the one played every […]
“Mother hugged us at night and told us the bombs would stop, but I knew that wouldn’t happen.”
BarcelonaHe is only 14 years old, but Baraa G. has already experienced the horrors of war first hand. And of a war that has crossed all red lines. They arrived in Barcelona just ten days ago: He was able to escape Gaza because he and his sisters Lamisse (11) and Dana (9) have Spanish passports. […]
The Rolls Royce that Leonor used for the swearing-in of the constitution came to Spain in 1952.
The picture was like a postcard: crowd, riders, royal guards, Benemérita agents… Although it may sound cliché, Madrid dressed up this Tuesday. And in the center of all the spotlights, as if at the epicenter of the party, two armored vehicles of those that exude elegance, luxury and elan. Two Rolls-Royce Phantom IVs that carried […]
Xakhtar, the club that plays in the Champions League despite the war
BarcelonaPreviously, the journey from Shakhtar Stadium, the Donbass Arena, to the town of Adviinka on the outskirts of Donetsk took only 20 minutes. This week, Adwinka was the scene of a Russian army armored vehicle attack that ended badly, leaving dozens dead. Next to the Barça competitor’s stadium, soldiers are dying there this Wednesday. The […]
“We want to return with our families under the bombs”
Special envoy for JerusalemBefore the Hamas attack two weeks ago, about 18,000 Gazans worked in Israel, mostly in the construction sector. The Hamas attack on October 7 caught them off guard and they have been unable to return home since, while their wives and children try to survive the constant shelling. But they are also […]
The day Catalonia betrayed Spain for the first time and showered Barcelona with bombs
The Pact of Genoa of 1705 was secretly signed by a group of Catalans with England to put an end to Philip V and impose their own constitution – an episode of the War of Succession that the independents now hide. 18th century depiction of the siege and capture of Barcelona in 1705, following the […]
the cluster munitions that terrified civilians during World War II and will now shell Ukraine
It was a Friday when the nightmare broke out. On March 26, 2003, a projectile hit a neighborhood in Baghdad. This bomb was not normal; When it reached the ground, it fired a huge amount of shrapnel, killing a woman and injuring four adults and five children. One of them, Ahmed, sustained injuries to his […]
“There are still many secrets we don’t know about”
The film ‘Broken Arrow’ by John Woo presents the scenario of the loss of an atomic bomb, a phenomenon known in military jargon in Spanish as ” ‘broken arrow’. A unique scenario in front of which one of the film’s protagonists replies: “I don’t know what is more terrible, the loss of nuclear weapons or […]