Morocco and Primo de Rivera’s coup d’état, one hundred years late
On September 13, it will be one hundred years since the coup perpetrated by the then Captain General of Catalonia,...
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Rubén Darío, Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the Spain of Alfonso XIII
Apart from narrator, essayist, chronicler, thinker, master of Modernism and cultural critic, Rubén Darío was a diplomat. Between the end...
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US and Germany’s Ambassadors, guests of the same hotel in the Second World War
What were the US and Germany’s Ambassadors doing in the same hotel of San Sebastián in August 1943, in the...
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Why did General Franco revive the Duty Ministry tradition in 1943?
In August 1943, General Franco's government revived the historical role of the Duty Ministry, an “old custom interrupted by the...
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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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