Diplomacy with a story
Mediation by Spanish diplomat to bring an end to the Great War
En los libros sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial aparecen dos españoles como figuras destacadas: el rey Alfonso XIII por su...
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150 years of Bismarck’s naval expedition against the Canton of Cartagena
In July 1873, 150 years ago, Otto von Bismarck, chancellor and architect of the newborn German Empire, decided to send...
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Peter Paul Rubens: spy and ambassador just for the love of art
In the midst of the XVII century, when Europe was a chess board in which the great princes played around...
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50 years after Chile’s coup (2): Pinochet used Franco’s funerals to mastermind opponent murder
The then Chilean president Augusto Pinochet was not only one of the very few heads of state who attended Francisco...
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50 years after Chile’s coup (1): Spain’s ambassador asks Pinochet for “moderation and clemency”
September 11 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup d'état against the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, which...
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Sebastián de Romero, the Spanish diplomat who saved hundreds of sephardic jews
His name was not Schindler but Romero. There is not any movie about him, just like about many other Spanish...
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History of Piotr Potemkin and the first Russian embassy in Spanish history
In 1668, the Court of the unfortunate Charles II received in Madrid Piotr Ivánovich Potemkin, who thus had the honor...
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British agent “M”… was born and died in Spain?
Did “M” exist in real life? In Ian Fleming’s novels, James Bond’s boss at MI6 is Vice Admiral Sir Miles...
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Spain’s ambiguous role in Equatorial Guinea’s ‘Freedom Coup’
On August 3, 1979, the then commander in chief of the Army of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, took up...
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Canonization of San Isidro: a State affair which involved Kings, Popes and Ambassadors
In March 1622, the Pope made the unusual decision to canonize four people from the same country at once. Three...
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