ETA assassinates a former city councillor
With two days to go before the Spanish general elections on Sunday, ETA obviously figured things were going in too smooth and democratic a fashion. Earlier today, the separatist and, let’s face it, terrorist, organisation assasinated a former Socialist councillor of the Mondragón city council. The man was shot in [...]

so you have presidential elections in about a year’s time. That’s good, because it means that whatever happens, Bush will be gone. We don’t know yet if what comes after will be better, but it might be more fun. What, with a guy that doesn’t believe in evolution at the head of the world’s biggest [...]

So Venezuela has voted “No” to Hugo Chávez’s plans to change the Venezuelan Constitution. While not entirely unexpected, this is the first time Hugo has really been defeated since he came to power in 1999. At least, as he puts it, “for now”. That’s also what he said after the 1992 Venezuelan coup, which was [...]

The Bolivian precedent bodes ill for Ecuador’s constitutional assembly
Bolivian Congressmen have been fighting (physically) over control of the judiciary in La Paz on Wednesday, the BBC reports. But not just that, the Constitutional Assembly has also been disrupted by protests in Sucre (This link deserves a click just because of the site’s cheesy music - [...]

The avid reader of this blog (should they exist) may have noted that every once in a while, I just have to go on a little rant about Hugo Chávez. It’s that time of the year again.
Now, Hugo is planning to revoke the licence of the critical TV station RCTV. It would be replaced by [...]

When I was told I had to read Fuente Ovejuna, a play by Lope de Vega, for my Golden Age literature course, I was apprehensive. The Golden Age plays tend to be, I’m afraid to say, boring, tedious, and difficult to understand not only because of their language, but also because of their cultural and [...]