Diplomacy with a story

In the midst of the XVII century, when Europe was a chess board in which the great princes played around...

Being foreign diplomat in Spain, and in Madrid to be exact, was not always synonymous with privilege. Until 1854, at...

Apart from narrator, essayist, chronicler, thinker, master of Modernism and cultural critic, Rubén Darío was a diplomat. Between the end...

In 1668, the Court of the unfortunate Charles II received in Madrid Piotr Ivánovich Potemkin, who thus had the honor...

Did “M” exist in real life? In Ian Fleming’s novels, James Bond’s boss at MI6 is Vice Admiral Sir Miles...

On August 3, 1979, the then commander in chief of the Army of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, took up...

In October 1883, the town council of Líjar, in Almería, declared war on France to apologize to King Alfonso XII,...

In March 1622, the Pope made the unusual decision to canonize four people from the same country at once. Three...

On May 2, 1808, the rumor that the royal family intended to leave Madrid to meet with Carlos IV in...

The life of American diplomat, historian and journalist Stephen Bonsal (1865-1951) was more related to Cuba than to Spain, as...