“Immediately, I am struck by the memory of my maternal great-grandfather, Victoriano López García, a native of Guadamur (Toledo), a good and simple person, a republican without exaltation or violence, who died in Ocaña prison, we believe that in 1941,” this writing continued. , 20 years ago. “He had the misfortune of raising up a … Read more
The bell of the plagued, the capirote and the sanbenito of those condemned by the Inquisition. To these and other historical ways of marking uncomfortable groups and potential sources of physical or ideological contagion, Russia has made its own contribution, namely the label of “foreign agent.” Established in Russian legislation in 2012, the concept of … Read more
Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have given another twist to the authoritarian regime they impose in Nicaragua: the Ministry of the Interior (MINT) published this Tuesday a regulation to authorize, control and monitor any “public artistic activity, event or show” in the country Central American, especially concerts by international artists, to avoid political references. The … Read more
This Monday, Iran released the official results of the legislative elections held last Friday, in which the conservatives renewed the comfortable majority they had in Parliament during the last legislature, with 232 seats out of 290. The country’s Electoral Commission has announced that 245 of that total number in the running have been elected in … Read more
The Russian security forces detained this Tuesday in Moscow for a few hours the lawyer who defended the mother of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny in her fight to recover her son’s body. Vasili Dubkov, Liudmila Navalnaya’s lawyer, has been accused of disturbing public order, according to independent media Novaya Gazeta Europa y Sota, which do … Read more