Tatort. Una hora de crímenes sin glamur

Una serie policial sin grandes personajes ni guiones espectaculares sobrevive en la programación televisiva de Alemania y ya va camino al medio siglo. ¿Cuál es el romance entre un país y su modesta serie policial?

Published in Etiqueta Negra magazine, January 2012. 

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Face to Face with ETA

On 23 September 2011, imprisoned members of the terrorist group took the surprising and unprecedented step of endorsing a proposed peace agreement that vows the abandonment of all violent activity in favour of a political solution to the Basque struggle for independence. 

Published in Monocle.com, October 14, 2011.

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Der Heilungsprozess im Baskenland wird schwierig

Eigentlich gibt es in Spanien derzeit wenig Grund zur Freude, weder für die Bevölkerung noch für die Regierung. Doch am Donnerstagabend machte ausgerechnet die baskische Terrororganisation Eta beiden ein Geschenk: Sie entsagte offiziell der Gewalt. Nach fast einem halben Jahrhundert des Terrors und mehr als 800 Toten soll der Schrecken im Baskenland vorüber sein.

Published in Zeit Online, October 21, 2011.

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Academic goals

A humble man, Carles Folguera seems uncomfortable in the limelight. Yet that’s where the director of Fc Barcelona’s youth academy found himself after Spain’s national team won the FootballWorld Cup in 2010. After all, nine of the players, including Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, had grown up under his tutelage.

Published in Monocle magazine, September 2011

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Tate Modern Finds Its Match

Waiting outside a basement meeting room at the Tate Modern in February, Chris Dercon greets museum employees filing past. He knows them each by name. "Oh, we just had such an interesting meeting!" he exclaims as he introduces two women from the museum's Learning Department. They beam.

Published in The Wall Street Journal Europe, March 18, 2011.

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Venturing into Catalonia's remote Priorat

It all began with wine. In 1989, a group of wine connoisseurs visited the Priorat, an impoverished, mountainous rural area inland from Tarragona, in the Spanish province of Catalonia. They had heard of the region's unique conditions for growing grapes, although the wine being produced was unrefined and usually sold in canisters rather than bottles.

Published in The Wall Street Journal Europe, October 22, 2010. 

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