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Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.
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Mariano Sánchez Soler is a Spanish journalist, writer, and historian. He is known for authoring several fundamental studies on Franco's regime and the ultraconservative legacy of Spanish democracy. He has just published La familia Franco SA (Editorial Roca, 2025). We spoke with him about the business dealings and secrets of the longest-running dictatorship of the 20th century in the West.
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Zübeyir Aydar is a Kurdish lawyer and politician who serves on the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK). He has been one of the most important leaders of the ethnic nationalist movement since the capture of Abdullah Reber Apo Öcallan by Turkish security forces in 1999. We spoke with him about the demise of his movement's most important organization: the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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Romania's Central Election Bureau (CEB), the institution responsible for ensuring the security of the national elections, has finally announced: Călin Georgescu will not be able to run as a candidate for the presidential elections on May 4.
The vote to elect the new head of state in Romania was due to take place at the end of last year, but the Constitutional Court decided to annul the results of the first round of elections, held in November, and to have them repeated in 2025.
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Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said this week in a statement that its American counterpart, USADA, has allowed doping among the athletes it supervises for years. Its management team has also admitted that it was aware of these events since 2021.
The North American organization justified its actions before WADA by assuring that it was going to use the cheating athletes to obtain incriminating evidence against the rest of the people involved in these acts.
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Ana Miranda is a Galician jurist and politician. She has been a deputy of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in the European Parliament in the last legislature and is running again on the Ahora Repúblicas list for the elections that will renew it next Sunday. In 2019, this coalition - now made up of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), EH Bildu, BNG and Aramés - won three seats. We spoke with her about the main challenges facing Europe and the worrying rise of the extreme right.
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Several hundred students from Madrid universities have been camping for Palestine in the Complutense for weeks. They take turns taking their exams and also receive support from several teachers. They assure that they plan to stay there as long as necessary.
The camps, started on US campuses, have spread throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. They are the largest global student protest of the 21st century.
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For Baku there are only two alternative routes to the long detour to bring its gas to Europe. The first is to transfer the gas to Turkey through northern Iran, although it is unfeasible. Tehran is one of Russia's closest partners in the region and has always distrusted Azerbaijan and its relations with the Azeri-Iranian minority, which it sees as a pan-Turkic fifth column within its own population.
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Luis Gonzalo Segura is a former lieutenant in the Spanish Army. He was expelled from the Armed Forces for denouncing his corruption publicly in 2015. He is now a writer and collaborates in various media outlets. In his latest book, The Ukrainian Trap (Akal, 2023), he presents the key events of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. We spoke with him about the war and the latest events.
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Former US President George HW Bush and the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, organized their first face-to-face meeting in early December 1989. The meeting was held in one of the cabins of the cruise liner Máxim Gorki, anchored near the port of the Maltese town of Marsaxlokk due to the strong storms that raged the waters of the central Mediterranean during those days.
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The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.
