Profile | Zapatero, from spotless Spanish leader to former prime minister under suspicion
He is the first former head of government to be formally accused after leaving office with an unblemished record
‘No to war’: 23 years later, Spain’s PM revives the left’s historic slogan against the Iraq invasion
In the middle of a standoff with Trump, the Spanish leader is seeking a similar momentum to the one that created a common cause in 2003 and gave the left an unexpected victory at the polls
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, on the US and Israeli attack on Iran: ‘No to war, we are not going to be complicit’
The Spanish prime minister responded to Donald Trump’s threats of a trade embargo: ‘Some will say that this is naive. What is naive is to think that violence is the solution. Or to think that blind and servile obedience is leadership’
The long road of El Cid: From plundering mercenary to Francoist legend
The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the present
The Spanish Reconquest and the Battle of Covadonga: When myths contaminate history
In several recent essays historians discuss the founding milestones of Spanish nationalism, the traditional banner of conservative politicians, around the struggle for Al-Andalus
Opus Dei funding a Charles Manson record and a Ku Klux Klan couplet: Scandals of the Spanish underground
Presented as an illustrated dictionary, a new book delves into the bizarre as the essence of Spanish national identity, in contrast to the epic narratives of patriotism adopted by the far right
Protest in Madrid against amnesty for Catalan separatists
Spain’s conservative Popular Party organized a rally in the capital to demonstrate against possible measures to clear those involved in the 2016 secession bid
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