Articles written by Ricardo de Querol

The last image of David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright together, after Pink Floyd's performance at the Live 8 festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2, 2005.

Besides a dispute over the band’s legacy worth around €500 million, the two band members have been clashing over the war in Ukraine

Culture

Why ‘RRR,’ the Indian superhero movie, became a phenomenon

Ricardo de Querol|04 Sep 2022 - 02:14UTC

The script is scandalous and the result is spectacular. It evokes the Marvel universe more than historical memory. The film’s success marks a new chapter in nationalist film

Johnny Cash with Richard Nixon, in the Oval Office of the White House in 1972.

CULTURE

Johnny Cash’s truth vs. a president’s lies

Ricardo de Querol|27 Aug 2022 - 03:59UTC

Netflix documentary Nixon and the Man in Black chronicles Nixon’s failed attempt at using the singer to curry favor with voters

North Korean soldiers with Kim Jong-un after a review of the nation's missile arsenal in 2014.

TELEVISION

The documentaries about North Korea that are stranger than fiction

Ricardo de Querol|23 Apr 2022 - 02:13UTC

A chef who does drugs and arms deals with the regime, a couple of filmmakers kidnapped to work for Kim Jong-Il, and two young women recruited to kill the Dear Leader’s brother are crazy-sounding but perfectly true stories

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council in Moscow.

OPINION

The Russian spy boss humiliated by Putin

Ricardo de Querol|23 Feb 2022 - 18:04UTC

Sergey Naryshkin was put on the spot for suggesting Russia consider giving the West one last ultimatum. If scriptwriters were behind the Kremlin’s videos, they would be in high demand by streaming platforms

COLUMN

Explaining Franco to a German audience

Ricardo de Querol|01 Nov 2021 - 10:43UTC

A ZDF documentary available on Netflix and titled ‘The Brutal Truth About Spain’s Dictator’ portrays the Spanish ‘caudillo’ as a ruthless criminal, without avoiding the complexities of his character

BOOKS

“There was no Reconquest. No military campaign lasts eight centuries”

Ricardo de Querol|Madrid|28 Feb 2020 - 15:41UTC

In his new book, British historian Henry Kamen debunks the myths that are bound up in Spain’s identity, arguing that “current politicians have no idea what makes a nation”

Nicholas Negroponte in Madrid on Wednesday.

INTERVIEW

Nicholas Negroponte: “Your children and my grandchildren will live to be 150”

Ricardo de Querol|Madrid|21 Jun 2019 - 06:47UTC

The US tech visionary, founder of the MIT Media Lab, was in Madrid for a talk on innovation, and he spoke with EL PAÍS about his predictions for the future