28/11/2013. Carlos Dardé. November 28 marks the birth anniversary in 1857 of Prince Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón who, in December 1874, would become King Alfonso XII. He was King for only a short period, eleven years scarce, because he died in November 1885, when he was just about to turn twenty-eight, from complications from the tuberculosis he was suffering.

27/11/2013. Ignacio García de Leániz Caprile . Two years ago, the bicentenary of Jovellanos' death passed unnoticed among us, to our shame and as a sign of how sick we are as a country. Freud said that our memory losses betray us. In this case, it's as if the figure of our outstanding man would leave most of our political class unmasked. Therefore I consider it just in such a crisis–which is also a crisis of politics and of politicians–to celebrate today the anniversary of his death on November 27, 1811 in Puerto de Vega, fleeing from Napoleon's advance on his hometown Gijon. 

26/11/2013. Mira Milosevich. Ukraine's decision, announced by Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, to "suspend preparations" for the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union, scheduled for 28 November in Vilnius (Lithuania), is the result of the Ukraine's own economic and political situation, of Putin's coercion and of the European Union's inability to carry out its flagship project–the Eastern Partnership–addressed to several ex-Soviet countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) and thus continue its eastward enlargement.

25/11/2013. José Luis Restán. Ramón Jáuregui has said that the PSOE announcement that it will denounce church-state agreements once it returns to government is not mere wishful thinking. He is the one who also promoted an attempt to rectify the PSOE's radical secularism and protected the low portion of Christian socialists in his party while Aznar was in office. Now Jáuregui seems loaded with reason: "the Spanish Church has truly earned it".  

22/11/2013. Pablo Guerrero. Fifty years ago, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by the bullets fired by a young communist sympathiser, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was then that the Kennedy myth emerged. The myth of a life cut short at full maturity, of a progressive presidency too soon interrupted and of a thwarted American dream. However, half a century after the Dallas assassination and thanks to both the historical perspective achieved over time and to several research works of very high historiographical value, it is possible to separate myth from reality. 

20/11/2013. Yon Goicoechea Lara. This week, we Venezuelans are undusting our worst memories. The looting promoted by Maduro has forced us to face the spectre of Caracazo of 1989. 24 years later, oil 'rentism' is once again taking its toll. With an annual inflation approaching 54% in 2013, basic food shortages and of international reserves that would not even cover a week's imports, Venezuela is plunging into chaos.

19/11/2013. Martín Alonso. The two armies, North and South, had left close to ten thousand dead, rotting in the summer of Pennsylvania, after the battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), perhaps the most crucial one of the Civil War (1861-1865). The state's Republican Governor, Andrew Curtin, ordered the burial of the bodies days after, previously undertaking an expeditious identification, where possible, to avoid epidemics.

18/11/2013. Guillermo Hirschfeld. Chile has held its first round of the presidential elections. 6.5 million Chileans out of 13 million registered voters have cast their vote (low poll attendance). In this Sunday election, the left, led once again by Michelle Bachelet, has obtained a comfortable victory, although not enough for a final victory. With 46.68% of the votes, there will be a second round where the Concertation will confront Evelyn Mattei, who won 25% of the votes.