<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSun, 07 Jun 2026 01:18:24 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[It’s been 50 years since the ‘most important concert of all time’... and everyone who saw it would fit inside Bad Bunny’s ‘casita’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-06-04/its-been-50-years-since-the-most-important-concert-of-all-time-and-everyone-who-saw-it-would-fit-inside-bad-bunnys-casita.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-06-04/its-been-50-years-since-the-most-important-concert-of-all-time-and-everyone-who-saw-it-would-fit-inside-bad-bunnys-casita.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2026 15:13:52 +0000At a time when tens of thousands of people flock each night to see Bad Bunny in Madrid and share millions of videos capturing his every move, it feels strange to think that on this very day, exactly 50 years ago, a concert took place that was likely attended by fewer people than those dancing each night in the Puerto Rican star’s casita — and yet may have changed popular music forever.

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]]>Paul Welsh<![CDATA[Michael J. Sandel: ‘Trump isn’t stopped by the law, but by politics’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-29/michael-j-sandel-trump-isnt-stopped-by-the-law-but-by-politics.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-29/michael-j-sandel-trump-isnt-stopped-by-the-law-but-by-politics.htmlTue, 29 Apr 2025 13:53:13 +0000Some of the keys to understanding the new world taking shape in the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency can be found in the influential and prescient work of political philosopher Michael J. Sandel. From Democracy’s Discontent, which challenged the optimistic “end of history” narrative in the mid-1990s, to The Tyranny of Merit, which more than two decades later examined the legitimate grievances of the working class — the consequences of which are now starkly unfolding.

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]]>Jaime Villanueva<![CDATA[Michael J. Sandel, philosopher: ‘I resist the tendency to see technology as an autonomous force that we cannot control’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-12/michael-j-sandel-philosopher-i-resist-the-tendency-to-see-technology-as-an-autonomous-force-that-we-cannot-control.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-12/michael-j-sandel-philosopher-i-resist-the-tendency-to-see-technology-as-an-autonomous-force-that-we-cannot-control.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 03:40:00 +0000At the end of 2001, the American political philosopher Michael J. Sandel — a star professor at Harvard University — received an unexpected invitation. He was asked to join the newly-created President’s Council on Bioethics. While he isn’t an expert in the subject, he was attracted by the idea of reflecting on genetic engineering, cloning and stem cell research — nascent fields that posed colossal moral challenges.

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]]>Jaime Villanueva<![CDATA[Michael J. Sandel, philosopher: ‘The left needs to offer a positive take on patriotism’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-16/michael-j-sandel-philosopher-the-left-needs-to-offer-a-positive-take-on-patriotism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-16/michael-j-sandel-philosopher-the-left-needs-to-offer-a-positive-take-on-patriotism.htmlTue, 16 May 2023 13:46:32 +0000Almost 30 years ago, Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel scratched through the golden surface of the 1990s. Just beneath that layer of prosperity and euphoria that followed the end of the Cold War, he found a buzz of anxiety. He could hear that many people were rejecting the project of globalization, which was pushed by the elites. The professor collected this discomfort in Democracy’s Discontent (1996), which soon became a classic. Now, when we look back at it, we can see that it had premonitory overtones.

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]]><![CDATA[Extreme weather and war starve Somalia as famine declaration looms]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-02-07/extreme-weather-and-war-starve-somalia-as-famine-declaration-looms.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-02-07/extreme-weather-and-war-starve-somalia-as-famine-declaration-looms.htmlTue, 07 Feb 2023 15:14:15 +0000In the camps for displaced people in Dolow, southern Somalia, there are things that look like children’s games, but in reality, they are signs of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the country. Here children control cylindrical balls instead of soccer balls, yellow drums that they roll on the ground with their bare feet. They fill them in the crowded points where humanitarian organizations have installed taps from which flows the liquid that the sky has denied them for so long. They advance with short passes to their huts, made of twisted dry sticks and covered with tarpaulins, which form a vast colorful stain in this flat and arid land, one that is expanding on a daily basis with a relentless trickle of families fleeing a deadly combination of Islamist extremism and the worst drought the Horn of Africa has seen in 40 years.

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]]>Álvaro García<![CDATA[Plunging stocks, remote work: The economic effects of the coronavirus in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-10/plunging-stocks-remote-work-the-economic-effects-of-the-coronavirus-in-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-10/plunging-stocks-remote-work-the-economic-effects-of-the-coronavirus-in-spain.htmlTue, 10 Mar 2020 10:20:15 +0000As Spain began to roll out more restrictive measures on Monday to deal with the growing effects of the coronavirus, the economic fallout continued on its own expansion path.

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]]><![CDATA[US disconcerted at Spain’s apparent change of tack on Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2020-02-17/us-disconcerted-at-spains-apparent-change-of-tack-on-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2020-02-17/us-disconcerted-at-spains-apparent-change-of-tack-on-venezuela.htmlMon, 17 Feb 2020 12:40:26 +0000The Spanish government’s apparent change of position with regard to Venezuela has raised eyebrows in the United States, where officials used the terms “disappointment” and “discouraging” about Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s recent description of Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó as the “head of the opposition” rather than the “acting president.”

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]]>STRINGER<![CDATA[Convicted murderer Pablo Ibar escapes capital punishment in Florida]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/23/inenglish/1558598475_724990.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/23/inenglish/1558598475_724990.htmlThu, 23 May 2019 10:09:53 +0000Spanish citizen Pablo Ibar has been spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison by a US court in Florida. Ibar, who is of Spanish descent on his father’s side, has been behind bars for 25 years, 16 of them on death row, for the brutal killing of a bar owner and two dancers inside the former’s house in Broward County, Florida in 1994. The case became known as the “Casey’s Nickelodeon murders,” in reference to the name of the male victim’s place of business.

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]]>Giorgio Viera<![CDATA[Students, friends, staff and teammates pay tribute to murdered golfer Celia Barquín]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/20/inenglish/1537454550_876181.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/20/inenglish/1537454550_876181.htmlThu, 20 Sep 2018 15:23:16 +0000The depth of the mark that Spanish golf player Celia Barquín left at Iowa State University became evident when her friends and colleagues came together on Wednesday night to mourn her loss, two days after she was found dead on a golf course at Ames. Police have charged a suspect with first-degree murder.

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]]>Charlie Neibergall<![CDATA[Murder of Spanish golfer Celia Barquín “random act of violence”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/20/inenglish/1537434547_431291.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/20/inenglish/1537434547_431291.htmlThu, 20 Sep 2018 11:10:44 +0000A young woman from Puente San Miguel in Spain’s northern Cantabria region discovers she has a remarkable talent for golf, one that takes her across the world to Ames, Iowa in the United States. One morning, like so many others, she goes to the course to practice. Then, out of nowhere, a man appears from the woods and stabs her to death. Like her, he is 22 years old. He, however, has a very different story.

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]]>Kelsey Kremer<![CDATA[Murder suspect of Spanish golfer had “an urge to rape and kill a woman”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/19/inenglish/1537347656_060756.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/19/inenglish/1537347656_060756.htmlWed, 19 Sep 2018 10:12:28 +0000Champion Spanish golfer Celia Barquín Arozamena was found dead on Monday at a golf course in Ames, Iowa, a small mid-western city in the United States. The 22-year-old had won a scholarship to study civil engineering at Iowa State University, thousands of kilometers from her home in Puente San Miguel in the northern Spanish region of Cantabria.

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]]><![CDATA[Crackdown on British tourists’ phony food poisoning claims in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/20/inenglish/1524222018_668315.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/20/inenglish/1524222018_668315.htmlFri, 20 Apr 2018 11:30:53 +0000The British Ministry of Justice has announced new rules to stop British holidaymakers in Spain from scamming tour operators with fake food poisoning claims.

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]]><![CDATA[“Brexit wouldn’t have happened without Cambridge Analytica”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/27/inenglish/1522142310_757589.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/27/inenglish/1522142310_757589.htmlTue, 27 Mar 2018 14:39:39 +0000Christopher Wylie is the brains behind Cambridge Analytica (CA), the data analytics company that is being investigated for its role in the Donald Trump election campaign and the Brexit vote. The 28-year-old “gay Canadian vegan,” as he describes himself, put the most effective data mining machinery at the service of politics, but was shocked by how it was abused. Wylie has since exposed CA and Facebook for secretly mining the personal information of millions of Facebook accounts. After serving as a source for The Guardian and The New York Times, Wylie sat down with a small group of European journalists to talk about privacy, the failure of Facebook, and political interference.

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]]><![CDATA[British parliament inquiry addresses Russian meddling in Catalonia]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/19/inenglish/1513674563_113683.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/19/inenglish/1513674563_113683.htmlThu, 21 Dec 2017 12:10:22 +0000A British parliamentary committee investigating fake news will hear testimony on Tuesday morning regarding alleged Russian influence in the Catalan independence referendum of October 1.

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]]><![CDATA[London warns that Gibraltar sovereignty is not up for debate]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/14/inenglish/1500028577_338614.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/14/inenglish/1500028577_338614.htmlFri, 14 Jul 2017 11:36:20 +0000But prior to the meeting, Downing Street underscored that the sovereignty of Gibraltar, the disputed overseas territory in the south of Spain, is not up for debate. The reminder came a day after Felipe VI encouraged dialogue between Madrid and London to find a mutually acceptable solution to the ongoing dispute.

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]]>Ballesteros<![CDATA[Spain wary after UK mentions Gibraltar in key Brexit document]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/06/27/inenglish/1498546391_414864.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/06/27/inenglish/1498546391_414864.htmlTue, 27 Jun 2017 08:40:38 +0000“There are no exceptions to the principle by which no deal between the EU and the UK may apply to Gibraltar without a previous agreement between the UK and Spain, and this also affects the rights of citizens,” warned Spanish diplomatic sources after details of the British document became known.

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]]><![CDATA[BA’s Spanish CEO Álex Cruz targeted over weekend travel chaos]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/30/inenglish/1496129136_949947.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/30/inenglish/1496129136_949947.htmlTue, 30 May 2017 09:56:35 +0000Cruz, a 50-year-old from Bilbao with 10 years’ experience in the industry, is described as “controversial” and “beleaguered” by a newspaper that is the loudspeaker for Brexit and which embodies English nationalism.

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]]><![CDATA[“The Castellana Norte project will tell the world that Madrid is back”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495622287_728683.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495622287_728683.htmlWed, 24 May 2017 14:03:37 +0000His firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour+Partners, has been tasked with the Distrito Castellana Norte megaproject, which – after several false starts dating back more than a decade – is back on track, and which aims to transform a huge swathe of the northern edge of the city around Chamartín railway station. The idea is to establish a new business district able to attract foreign investment while at the same time creating a neighborhood that captures the spirit of the capital and provides a gateway to the mountains barely 50 kilometers away. Rogers’ partner Simon Smithson knows the capital well, having lived here for a decade while he worked on the T-4 extension to Barajas airport.

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]]><![CDATA[Government to create “Brexit Task Force” to assist Spaniards in UK]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/17/inenglish/1495033816_828043.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/17/inenglish/1495033816_828043.htmlThu, 18 May 2017 06:55:45 +0000The plan, which has been laid out in a response from the government to a written question from Socialist senator Andrés Gil, and to which EL PAÍS has had access, is in response to the “growing concerns” that the Brexit process has caused among “Spaniards residing in the United Kingdom and the companies, institutions and Spanish entities that are carrying out activities in or with this country.”

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]]><![CDATA[Obituary: Hugh Thomas, author of seminal book on the Spanish Civil War]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/08/inenglish/1494240641_585596.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/08/inenglish/1494240641_585596.htmlMon, 08 May 2017 11:28:41 +0000At a talk he delivered at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes cultural center in 2001, on the 40th anniversary of the book’s publication, Thomas said that its excellent reviews were a determining factor in his own life and career. A revised edition came out in 1977 and it was printed again in 2001.

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]]><![CDATA[War of words: Britain’s pro-Brexit press fans flames in Gibraltar row]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/05/inenglish/1491374901_344175.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/05/inenglish/1491374901_344175.htmlWed, 05 Apr 2017 09:13:26 +0000Inside its “Gibraltar Campaign” edition, readers of the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper were given a special pullout poster with a photograph featuring a young woman waving a Union Jack in front of Gibraltar and bearing the legend: “Hands off our Rock”

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]]><![CDATA[Spaniards in UK fear for future as Brexit countdown begins]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/29/inenglish/1490769762_407214.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/29/inenglish/1490769762_407214.htmlWed, 29 Mar 2017 09:17:30 +0000There are some three million EU nationals living in the United Kingdom, who, as of today, become part of the equation during talks over the next two years. The British governments upper chamber, the House of Lords, has called on the Conservative government to recognize their right to stay unilaterally, but it refused, backed by the lower chamber, the House of Commons.

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]]>LIONEL DERIMAIS<![CDATA[Spanish ambassador to UK resigns over 2003 military air crash]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/13/inenglish/1484297173_601999.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/13/inenglish/1484297173_601999.htmlFri, 13 Jan 2017 09:41:47 +0000The investigation found that half the bodies were misidentified, that the troops had been uninsured, and that most of the money budgeted for chartering flights had mysteriously vanished. Only two military officials were ever convicted, and later pardoned by the government.

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]]>Isabel Infantes<![CDATA[Spanish residents in UK: “Brexit has turned us into bargaining chips”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/12/30/inenglish/1483115510_158566.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/12/30/inenglish/1483115510_158566.htmlTue, 03 Jan 2017 10:09:18 +0000“The way to cope with the anxiety is to do something,” says Villarrubia, 47, a psychotherapist in Brighton and who has lived in the UK for more than half her life. “We’ve charged out, like bulls from the pen, to find the voice that we didn’t have before.”

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]]>Lionel Derimais<![CDATA[How the D-Day landings were endangered by Spanish spy’s homesick wife]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/inenglish/1475487934_810719.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/inenglish/1475487934_810719.htmlMon, 03 Oct 2016 11:52:46 +0000“Too much macaroni, too many potatoes and not enough fish.” That was how the UK diet was described by Araceli González, the unhappy wife of the Spanish spy and D-Day hero Juan Pujol, who worked for British spy agency MI5 and fed Adolf Hitler false information during World War II.

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]]><![CDATA[Cameron suspends anti-Brexit campaign in Gibraltar after MP attack]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/16/inenglish/1466063347_367294.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/16/inenglish/1466063347_367294.htmlThu, 16 Jun 2016 15:28:56 +0000UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will not be taking part in an anti-Brexit rally in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar after a Labour member of parliament was attacked in the street in a city close to Leeds, England on Thursday.

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]]>FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA<![CDATA[British press has field day with news Spanish PM wants to “kill the siesta”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/06/inenglish/1459928179_146076.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/06/inenglish/1459928179_146076.htmlWed, 06 Apr 2016 07:50:44 +0000The British kill foxes at all hours of the day and give oral sex in exchange for free drinks when they’re on vacation in Magaluf. The Spanish, for their part, are crazy about bulls – killing them that is, not the other thing – and sleep a three-hour siesta every day.

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]]><![CDATA[British daily ‘The Independent’ to close print edition after 29 years]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/12/inenglish/1455280973_915899.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/12/inenglish/1455280973_915899.htmlFri, 12 Feb 2016 13:41:07 +0000The British newspaper The Independent will close down its print editions in the coming month of March. The news of the closure was announced today by the publication’s owner, Evgeny Lebedev. 

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]]>Dan Kitwood<![CDATA[Irish drug gangs fighting turf war from Dublin to the Costa del Sol]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/11/inenglish/1455182249_389024.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/11/inenglish/1455182249_389024.htmlThu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:34 +0000At 2pm last Friday afternoon, three men armed with Kalashnikovs walked into the Regency Hotel in Dublin disguised as Irish police special forces. They proceeded to the stage area where boxer Jamie Kavanagh was posing for the cameras at the weigh-in ahead of his fight with Portugal’s João Bento the next day. The WBO European lightweight title bout, which was subsequently canceled, had been dubbed The Clash of the Clans. For once, the hype was to match reality. Their target was 32-year-old David Byrne, who worked for a Costa del Sol-based Dublin gangster. The gunmen opened fire, causing panic in the room as people tried to flee or ducked for cover, killing Byrne and wounding several others.

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]]>CLODAGH KILCOYNE<![CDATA[IMF raises growth forecast for Spain despite political uncertainty]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/19/inenglish/1453203494_699258.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/19/inenglish/1453203494_699258.htmlTue, 19 Jan 2016 12:52:14 +0000Lower prices for energy and other commodities may be good news for importing countries such as Spain.

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]]>Marlene Awaad<![CDATA[Ian McEwan: “Utopia is one of the most destructive ideas”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/25/inenglish/1448452418_326548.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/25/inenglish/1448452418_326548.htmlFri, 27 Nov 2015 08:22:21 +0000Fall has turned the trees myriad shades of gold in Gray’s Inn, the historic professional association and residential complex for barristers and lawyers in central London. Four middle-aged women, members of a reading circle, are listening attentively to their guide, who is taking them on a literary tour.

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]]><![CDATA[All you need is books]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/24/inenglish/1448378372_738146.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/24/inenglish/1448378372_738146.htmlThu, 26 Nov 2015 18:31:56 +0000Like so many good stories, this one begins in a pub: The Pillars of Hercules, in London’s Greek Street, above which the offices of The New Review, a literary magazine run by Ian Hamilton in the latter half of the 1970s, were once located.

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]]><![CDATA[A journey to the center of London’s new underground]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/22/inenglish/1434982839_257069.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/22/inenglish/1434982839_257069.htmlTue, 23 Jun 2015 11:23:20 +0000Beneath the streets of London lies another world: a subterranean city as old as the one built on the surface. There are more tunnels under the Thames than under the river of any other capital. The secret, they say, is in the soil, and the clay on which the metropolis stands, while useless for agriculture, is ideal for drilling. And in the depths of this tunneled London, the history of the city itself can be read.

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]]><![CDATA[Are these the 10 best streets in Europe?]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/19/inenglish/1434719390_167164.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/19/inenglish/1434719390_167164.htmlMon, 22 Jun 2015 14:08:51 +0000Streets that have an air of freedom and the good life to them; streets that are best explored on foot or on two wheels; streets where the influence of local entrepreneurs is clear to see, and that embody the spirit of the cities of which they are part.

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]]><![CDATA[David Cameron’s Conservatives win UK elections with absolute majority]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/08/inenglish/1431079654_039053.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/08/inenglish/1431079654_039053.htmlFri, 08 May 2015 12:03:14 +0000UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party swept to victory in the general election held on Thursday with an absolute majority that nobody had been expecting.

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]]>S. R.<![CDATA[UK plan to upgrade Falklands military installations upsets Argentina]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/25/inenglish/1427290970_491278.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/25/inenglish/1427290970_491278.htmlWed, 25 Mar 2015 16:16:04 +0000Argentina has reacted angrily to Britain’s plans to beef up and modernize its military installations in the Falklands Islands over the possibility of an invasion by the government in Buenos Aires.

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]]><![CDATA[Prado number two Gabriele Finaldi to head London’s National Gallery]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/01/22/inenglish/1421937818_221572.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/01/22/inenglish/1421937818_221572.htmlThu, 22 Jan 2015 15:53:58 +0000News that the Prado’s Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed to head London’s National Gallery shook the normally calm art museum world this week.

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]]>SOFÍA MORO<![CDATA[Spanish dominatrix lashes out at new pornography legislation in the UK]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/12/15/inenglish/1418641370_620279.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/12/15/inenglish/1418641370_620279.htmlMon, 15 Dec 2014 13:46:54 +0000Legislating pornography is a thankless task. How does anybody decide which sexual practices are acceptable and which are not? The United Kingdom has just introduced a series of amendments to the law regulating online pornography. As of now, videos produced in Britain for online distribution cannot include people being spanked “hard” on the buttocks; whips are banned; scenes featuring performers urinating on each other are definitely out; and there’ll be no more face-sitting. Oral sex with a woman that “obstructs the airways”, however this is achieved, “is not acceptable” either. Male ejaculation is fine, but not female.

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]]><![CDATA[Witchfinder general]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/06/inenglish/1378470121_586502.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/06/inenglish/1378470121_586502.htmlFri, 06 Sep 2013 12:25:56 +0000When word started to spread that Alex de la Iglesia was involved in a project about the witches of Zugarramurdi — site of notorious witch trials in 1610 which saw scores imprisoned and 40 burnt in a massive auto da fe — it sounded like the perfect fit for the man who in 1995's The Day of the Beast imagined Madrid's leaning Torres Kio as the stage for the appearance of the Antichrist. Witches covens in the caves of lush mountains, six women accused of witchcraft burnt alive by the Inquisition and all barely 200 kilometers away from the Basque director's birthplace. "In the Basque Country, the witches, or sorgines, are very present," he explains. "My father used to tell me about Zugarramurdi. And studying at university, I got into the Inquisition trials and the world of witches, mixed with Basque cultural anthropology. [...] I studied philosophy in Deusto, and one of the most important demonology collections in the world is there."

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