Hundreds rescued on Greek island after Italian ferry catches fire, 11 missing

Hundreds rescued on Greek island after Italian ferry catches fire, 11 missing Eleven people are missing after a ferry caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Friday (February 18). The ferry left the port of Igoumenitsa on Greece’s west coast at 1.50am, bound for Italy. At 4:12, a deck above the cargo hold … Read more

What happened to the Galicians who hijacked the ship ‘Santa María’?

The Galician filmmaker Asher Alvarez the memory of the hijacking of the “Santa Maria”, a ship assaulted by a commando made up of almost thirty Spaniards, Portuguese and Venezuelans, who held its passengers and crew for ten days between January 22 and February 2, 1961. The act, claimed by a group called the Iberian Revolutionary … Read more