Spain in the World September 14th 2013 Edition

Source: JuanJaén on Flickr.

New cuts, the recession doesn´t finish and Catalonia is not Spanish anymore or maybe it never was. Despite thousands of years since roman times of common history they still still feel Spanish.
A new debate is on the streets, and they should have the right to choose if they want to be part of Spain or not.
If they don´t, they go. Scotland will decide if they want to be part of the United Kingdom or not next year.
In the 21st century still is people that want to defend borders against freedom.
Do we believe in Europe?
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Spain in the World August 31st 2013 Edition

Photograph: Jose Miguel Fernandez De Velasc/ Jose Miguel Fernandez de Velasc/Demotix/Corbis

Nothing is GRATIS anymore.
It doesn´t mean that before it was free, it means that now we start to appreciate the worth of the things.
In a time of recession, where many people is unemployed the city councils cannot allow to take more debt or ask for more taxes.
The "TOMATINA" a big tomato party in Buñol, Valencia, it is not free and a €10.00 ticket is asked to go into the party.
Was it free before?
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Spain in the World August 24th 2013 Edition

Photograph: Steve Black/Rex

Spain, the sun, the beach, the party, all together in the same place, mixed in one of the most exotic islands in Europe, Ibiza.
Youth and luxury all of them mixed.
A way to keep going with that life if what it is call "easy money", a short travel that many of them have done before and allows them to keep going with this kind of life.
But every act has consequences.

Rosalía Mera has died after a stroke at the early age of 69. The co-founder of Zara and the big textile group Inditex is well known in Spain not only for her wealth as per her foundation; Paideia Galiza Foundation, a broad-reaching charity to assist mentally and physically disabled people and develop women's initiatives.

My question this week, what does the mediterranean diet have, that almost everybody like it and all the experts recomend it?

Do not miss the open letter from Spanish Minister of foreign affairs to the English Government. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT GIBRALTAR.

All of this and more in a new edition of Spain in the World

William Brinson for The New York Times; Food stylist: Suzanne Lenzer. Prop stylist: Susan Brinson