The Bilderberg Meeting is an annual off-the-record forum established in 1954 to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. The group's agenda, originally to prevent another world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. Participants include political leaders, experts, captains of industry, finance, academia, numbering between 120 and 150. Attendees are entitled to use information gained at meetings, but not attribute it to a named speaker. The group states that the purpose of this is to encourage candid debate while at the same time maintaining privacy, but critics from a wide range of viewpoints have called it into question, and it has provoked conspiracy theories from both the left and right.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
Why I Am Not a Muslim, a book written by Ibn Warraq, is a critique of Islam and the Qur'an. It was first published by Prometheus Books in the United States in 1995. The title of the book is a homage to Bertrand Russell's essay, Why I Am Not a Christian, in which Russell criticizes the religion in which he was raised.
Luisa Valenzuela Levinson is an Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.
Heberto Juan Padilla was a Cuban poet put to the center of the so-called Padilla affair when he was imprisoned for criticizing the Cuban government. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces, was published in 1949. Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly and in 1971 he was imprisoned by the Cuban government.
Spanish comics are the comics of Spain. Comics in Spain are usually called historietas or cómics, with tebeos primarily denoting the magazines containing the medium. Tebeo is a phonetic adaptation of TBO, a long-running (1917–1983) Spanish comic magazine, and sounds like "te veo".
Juan Gasparini is an Argentinian investigative journalist and author.
The 2nd Bombardment of Algiers took place between 12 and 21 July 1784. A joint Spanish-Neapolitan-Maltese-Portuguese fleet commanded by the Spanish Admiral Antonio Barceló bombarded the city, which was the main base of the Barbary corsairs, with the aim of forcing them to interrupt their activities. The second bombardment followed a similarly failed expedition the preceding year.
Anacleto, agente secreto is a Spanish comic character created by cartoonist Manuel Vázquez Gallego in 1964, protagonist of the series of the same name. Anacleto is an inept secret agent with very bad luck. His adventures usually include going to a desert and, when returning, realising that he has made a completely useless trip. He is one of the author's most popular characters.
Lorenzo Mediano is a Spanish physician, writer and wilderness survival instructor. He is the author of several novels such as Los olvidados de Filipinas, La escarcha sobre los hombros, El Secreto de la Diosa and Tras la huella del hombre rojo.
Mortadelo is a Spanish comic magazine published from 1970 to 1991 first by Editorial Bruguera and subsequently by Ediciones B. The magazine is named after the popular Mort & Phil comic series created by Francisco Ibáñez.
Ana María del Río is a Chilean literature professor, feminist writer, and novelist. Her honors include the Santiago Municipal Literature Award and the María Luisa Bombal Award.
The Sabaté brothers Quico and Pepe were among the famed Catalan Spanish maquis and urban guerrilla of the Francoist post-Civil War period. They participated in an anarchist guerrilla vigilante group of expropriators before the war. Afterwards, as maquis, they turned their focus from unlikely anarchist mass insurrection to converting others to anti-Francoism. The maquis descended from exile in the French Pyrenees to the Barcelona area, attacking Francoists and continuing vigilante robberies as a form of propaganda by deed. Their youngest brother, Manolo, rode with another maquis in defiance of his brothers' request that he pursue other work. Manolo was quickly caught in a police trap and executed by firing squad in 1949 at Barcelona's El Camp de la Bóta, the notorious execution grounds of the Franco period.
Fernando García Valverde, better known as Fernando Valverde or Tito Valverde, is a Spanish actor. Born in Ávila, he became very popular to a television audience for his performance as Pepe in the 1995 comedy television series Pepa y Pepe. He has later starred as Gerardo Castilla in the television series El comisario.
Miriam Tey is a Spanish editor, writer and political activist. She served as vice-president of the Societat Civil Catalana until replaced by Álex Ramos year 2019 and is an outspoken opponent of Catalan nationalism and the separatist movement.
The Ponzán group was an organization of guides and couriers, made up mainly of Spanish anarchists, which operated in Southern France and in Spain during World War II. It took its name from Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who was mainly responsible for the group. Its center of operations was located in Toulouse. For a source of income, the Ponzán Group worked for the Pat O'Leary escape network guiding Allied airmen who had been shot down over German-occupied Europe to Spain and safety from capture.
José Luis Espejo Pérez, is a Spanish-language writer specializing in historical essays.
Stella Manuela Juliana Calloni Leguizamón is an Argentine journalist and writer specializing in international politics, whose investigative work focuses on Latin American military dictatorships and related political processes. Her books Los años del lobo: la Operación Cóndor (1999) and Operación Cóndor, pacto criminal (2006) gather parts of her research into the campaign known as Operation Condor.
