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Guillermo Altares

CORONAVIRUS

Living to tell the tale of Covid-19

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 04-12-2020 - 14:26 UTC

During the toughest months of the pandemic, Juan Altares suffered all the complications of what was then a completely unknown disease. This is a day-by-day account of how his family got through it

POLITICAL HISTORY

Why the Middle Ages have become incredibly relevant

Guillermo Altares | 01-08-2019 - 15:44 UTC

Far-right parties like Vox in Spain use doubtful historical facts to justify their vision of a modern-day Islamic invasion

general election 2019

What is the real power of the far right in Spain?

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 02-05-2019 - 09:09 UTC

Experts warn that Vox could shift the debate on key issues like immigration after the group won 24 seats in Congress

Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

Notre-Dame de Paris: where all the paths in France converge

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 16-04-2019 - 09:16 UTC

One of the most powerful symbols of Europe will overcome the fire, just as it has resisted other disasters throughout the centuries

WAR CRIMES

The limits of genocide

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 29-03-2019 - 16:29 UTC

The verdict increasing the sentence against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic reopens the debate on the difficulties of proving the most serious crime in international law

Anti-Semitism

Hate campaign strikes major Auschwitz exhibition in Madrid

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 20-11-2017 - 08:00 UTC

The comprehensive event has received many anti-Semitic threats before its inauguration

spain’s cultural heritage

Spanish scientists use cutting-edge technology to uncover cave paintings

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 14-09-2017 - 06:40 UTC

Team from Cantabria Museum of Prehistory explores area close to Altamira complex

HISTORY

Dunkirk, the last great mystery of World War II

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 19-07-2017 - 08:55 UTC

Why did Hitler allow British troops to return home after their defeat in France in May 1940?

ENVIRONMENT

The world braces itself for a future of heat waves

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 04-07-2017 - 07:04 UTC

Scientists are predicting more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting extreme weather events

THE HOLOCAUST

When the world shut its doors to the Jews

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 19-06-2017 - 11:42 UTC

UN papers highlight parallels between failure to help those fleeing Nazis and Syria crisis today

Spanish Civil War

The super spy who failed to kill Franco

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 13-03-2017 - 09:43 UTC

Spanish writer produces first biographical account of Kim Philby’s role in country’s civil war

HISTORY

The Spanish role in the French Resistance

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 12-10-2016 - 13:10 UTC

British historian Robert Gildea deconstructs the official version of events in his new book

SPANISH HISTORY

The night Spain’s transition to democracy nearly derailed

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 05-02-2016 - 08:19 UTC

New book explores the 1977 Atocha massacre of five labor lawyers in Madrid

THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM

France awaits Spain’s proposal for supporting fight against Islamic State

Guillermo Altares|París | 23-11-2015 - 09:12 UTC

Madrid has yet to make a clear offer after backtracking on plans to bolster Mali contingent

Halloween

How Halloween came to push out All Hallows’ Eve

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 30-10-2015 - 07:39 UTC

Dismissed by many Spaniards as too American, the celebration’s roots lie firmly in old Europe

EDUCATION

Why Plato has been expelled from Spanish high schools

Guillermo Altares/Pilar Álvarez|Madrid | 19-10-2015 - 08:09 UTC

Latest conservative education reforms further reduce teaching of philosophy to students

HEALTH

Is fast food killing off Spain’s famed Mediterranean diet?

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 15-07-2015 - 08:32 UTC

Younger Spaniards are shifting away from their parents’ traditional eating habits

Las Ventas: bringing bullfighting’s present and past together

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 23-06-2015 - 09:32 UTC

Madrid bullring’s library and museum offer a singular glimpse into the practice’s history

SCIENCE

Why Spain’s research and development is going nowhere

Pilar Álvarez/Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 15-06-2015 - 08:13 UTC

Universities are coming up with great ideas, but struggle to adapt them to the market

A 37-minute prehistoric journey

Guillermo Altares|Santillana del Mar | 22-04-2015 - 11:32 UTC

As visits resume, EL PAÍS joins the first group to be allowed in to view Altamira’s cave art

Altamira cave will open to visitors

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 27-03-2015 - 16:45 UTC

Widely expected decision flouts the majority opinion of prehistoric art experts

Altamira must be closed to visitors, Spanish scientists tell Unesco

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 26-03-2015 - 10:15 UTC

Scholars accuse government of endangering Paleolithic cave art for political reasons

PLANE CRASH IN ALPS

Germanwings crash site lies in remote and mountainous area of Alps

Guillermo Altares|Madrid | 24-03-2015 - 13:43 UTC

Group of gendarmes is attempting to reach the location, which is covered in deep snow

The truffle capital of the world

Guillermo Altares|Sarrión | 05-03-2015 - 09:49 UTC

A remote corner of eastern Spain has become the largest global producer of the delicacy

Will Spain free its orca whales?

Guillermo Altares|Puerto de la Cruz | 09-02-2015 - 10:23 UTC

Pressure grows on marine parks to stop using the animals during shows

Taking on the mushroom mafias

Guillermo Altares|El Royo | 09-12-2014 - 15:39 UTC

Spain’s economic crisis is driving a growing trade in illegally collected species

Campofrío vows to rebuild factory in Burgos, after devastating blaze

Guillermo Altares/El País|Burgos / Madrid | 18-11-2014 - 11:49 UTC

The food group’s processed-meat plant, which employed 900, may burn for six more days

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