The senior investigating judge in Spain and scourge of human rights violators around the world, Baltasar Garzón, has been reported to the Supreme Court for allegedly acting beyond his competencies in ordering the exhumation of people who died in the Spanish Civil War, amongst other things (BBC, El Pais). The complaints were filed by three [...]

Further to my post on the Spanish regional elections, the leader of the Socialists in the Basque Country (PSE-EE, the local chapter of PSOE) has been elected lehendakari, or First Minster of the Basque Country, following a deal with the Popular Party. Quite what this will mean I don’t know; it breaks the hold of [...]

As I wrote here, there have been elections in the Basque Country; there were simultaneously elections in Galicia. The result there is rather clearer as the Popular Party have an absolute majority of 39 out of 75. Previously, Galicia had been governed by a coalition of PSdeG (Partido Socialista de Galicia, the local flavour of [...]

There have been elections in two of the autonomous regions of Spain – the Basque Country and Galicia. This post will look at the results in the Basque Country; another one will look at Galicia. The elections in the Basque Country are something of an upset; it is at least possible that, for the first [...]

The BBC World Service has a radio play, To make the people smile again, the story of a young George Wheeler who went to fight in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. It includes interviews with some of the remaining Spanish, British and American survivors. You can listen to it here. xD.

The King of Spain, Juán Carlos I de Borbón y Borbón, recently told Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela to, in no uncertain terms, shut up, after the latter called the former Spanish Prime Minister, José María Aznar, a fascist. Now, I am no fan of Aznar, but Chávez’s comments are not just mistaken but actually [...]