The Austerity Chronicles: Police State

I remember years ago when a group of feminists staged a protest about El Oso y el Madroño in Puerta del Sol, which they claimed was actually a female bear–una

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The Brain Drain in Spain 2: Flight to London

If you want to be kind of depressed – and your Spanish is up to it – go read the article published in El País Semanal yesterday entitled

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The 4 big things I wish I had known before moving to Madrid

Moving to Madrid sort of happened to me by accident. Like many or most people, I had spent my teenage years with no idea what I was doing

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The Brain Drain in Spain (insert stupid rhyme here)

Recently there’s been a lot of brain drain in Spain. But it didn’t use to be this way. There was a time, back in those early days of

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Record High Unemployment in Spain — 6.202.700 People Jobless

Back in 2008, the crisis was just starting… And President Zapatero of the quote-unquote Socialist Party was able to get re-elected on a solid platform of “just deny

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Economic Crisis in Spain – Scenes from Spanish Austerity

There’s a lot I could say about the economic crisis in Spain. I’ve been searching the web for English-language blogs about Spain for years, and have only managed

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Austerity Pro Tip #3: Hope for reincarnation

When the CEOs of banks lose hundreds of millions of dollars in other people’s money and suddenly don’t have enough to pay their debts, the government bails them

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