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Ana Miranda: the EPP MEPs have washed the face of the extreme right

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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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On Chinese threats and American friends

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As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.

With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing its oil.

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Gestures of complicity between Spain and China with a European perspective

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The recent visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, to Spain has left important messages. The first, the outstretched hand, the willingness to continue promoting bilateral cooperation at all levels. For Beijing, Spain continues to be a “good and reliable partner.” The absence of conflict is a notable characteristic of Spanish-Chinese relations.

José Manuel Martín Medem in Madrid. Photo: Paola Gómez

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Martín Medem: the idea of public service that governed the media has been adulterated

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José Manuel Martín Medem is a veteran Spanish journalist specialized in Latin American information. He was a correspondent for RTVE in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba for a decade and is now a member of its Board of Directors. In 1982, he was awarded the National Human Rights Journalism Award.

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Carmen Domingo: «In the world of football, equality between men and women has never been accepted»

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Carmen Domingo is a Spanish philologist and feminist writer. Many of her works have focused on research and dissemination of the history of women in our country during the 2022th century. In recognition of them, she was appointed curator of Women Writers' Day at the National Library in XNUMX. We spoke with her about the Rubiales case.

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Joaquín Araujo: the rise in temperatures and droughts herald a not-so-distant hydric collapse

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Joaquín Araújo is a Spanish naturist, writer and journalist who has dedicated a large part of his life to making humanity aware of the dangers and suffering that the ecological degradation of the planet can cause. In this summer season in the northern hemisphere, with all the alarms going off due to the unstoppable rise in temperatures and the lack of water, we talked to him about the threat of climate change.

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Arabi: Rabat has exerted enormous pressure to condition the Spanish government

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The Polisario Front celebrates 50 years today since it was founded in Maurtinaia on May 10, 1973. We spoke with Abdulah Arabi, the front's delegate in Spain, about the situation in Western Sahara after the drastic change in the position of the Spanish Government, which in March 2022, he supported Morocco's position in the conflict.

Photo by Pablo González in Nagorno Karabagh. Courtesy of Oihana Goirinea

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Oihana Goirinea: Being in solitary confinement, Pablo cannot dismantle the information campaign against him

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Oihana Goirinea is the wife of Pablo González, the Spanish journalist arrested by the Polish authorities on February 28, 2022 and later accused of being a spy for the Russian intelligence services. González is a freelance journalist who collaborates for various outlets, specializing in coverage of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet countries. He has been detained in solitary confinement in a maximum security unit of a Polish prison for almost 15 months.

Durango bombing — Sculpture in memory of the 336 killed in the bombing of Durango installed in the city cemetery on March 30. Photo: Fernando Íñiguez

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Before Gernika, it was Durango

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“We were in the church praying early in the morning, and all of a sudden we started to hear airplane engine noises and bombing noises. The nun and I ran to the confessional to protect ourselves, but my other sister, Conchita, did not have time. She saw how some rubble from the roof of the temple and some beams fell on her head, leaving her body hidden under the rubble. We never saw her again, not even dead."

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Laura Lanuza, spokesperson for Open Arms: the Mediterranean is a great mass grave for migrants

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Laura Lanuza is one of the most veteran activists and the head of communication for the humanitarian organization OpenArms, which was founded in 2015 by the Spanish lifeguard and businessman Óscar Camps with the aim of protecting the lives of people abandoned in international waters. fleeing war conflicts, persecution or poverty. We spoke to her about the rise in migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Spain and China: reality and myth

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Next March 9 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and China. From that already distant 1973 to today, a very important evolution of exchanges is verifiable, favored, among other things, by the mutual perception of being protagonists of parallel transitions that began almost in unison in both countries: in the second half of the XNUMXs, After the death of Franco, Spain began its "transition", and the same thing happened in China after the death of Mao, beginning the deployment of denguismo. In both cases it was something similar: a change of regime without a change of system. In addition, this common contemporary trajectory reached the common imagination of tragic episodes such as the respective civil wars, with unequal outcomes.

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Emilio Silva, president of the ARMH: there is still a firewall that prevents us from investigating the more than 100.000 disappeared in Spain

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In the first months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), in the territory controlled by the coup leaders who were facing the Government of the Republic, there were more than one hundred thousand murders and subsequent disappearance of people with Republican loyalty. Most are still missing and in this interview Emilio Silva, president of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH), criticizes the lack of involvement of the authorities when it comes to recovering the bodies of the victims. Not even the recent Law of Historical Memory makes the State responsible, he denounces.