Himmler, Picasso and Mazón – Spanish news roundup, Nov 2025

Hey hey! It’s time for another roundup of Spanish news stories I find interesting. Spanish politics is going through quite a difficult moment, with Pedro Sánchez losing support

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New York adventures – Mr Chorizo (and Morena) in the Big Apple

New York. I’m up at 5 AM because of jet lag, and I’m walking. Down Broadway from the hotel, steam is coming out of the grates, giving the

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Mr Chorizo’s Mailbag #1 – listener questions and feedback

The weirdest thing happened. I got my Spanish passport last week. That’s the topic of my most recent article, Becoming a Spanish Citizen. Afterwards, I went to the

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Becoming a Spanish Citizen – the end of the immigrant hustle?

Last week I was in Phoenix. My home town, out in the Arizona desert. (Or, more accurately, on the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert.) It was my

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Portland, Oregon – reporting from the War Zone and Woke Utopia

President Trump says that Portland is at war. I think that’s hyperbole. Where I’m staying, in Chinatown, it looks like the war is over, and what we’re left

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Spain’s boycott of Israel, Vuelta a España chaos, and more

Spain wants to boycott Israel. Or at least the current leftist government does. Here’s the story: last week, the government announced a package of sanctions designed to break

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Police State! Know your rights with Spanish police and law enforcement

So there I was, standing by the side of the highway. Hands on my head, sweating through my t-shirt, and getting a pat-down from a burly officer of

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Population Explosion! (and an update on my Spanish Nationality)

Last Monday my lawyer messaged me. “I thought you should see this…” he said. I opened the PDF he’d sent, and my heart fluttered as I skimmed the

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Identity Performance for the Algorithm

The other day I was making a sponsored video. My sponsor, this month, wanted “lifestyle content” – which I took to mean that they wanted a video of me

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Corruption, Mass Immigration, and the Rise of Spain’s Far Right

A few weeks ago I was down in Madrid. On Monday morning, Morena had to visit the US embassy, and I wanted to meet with my lawyer. He

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