The term rock’n’roll is attributed to radio host Alan Freed, who popularized it in association with the musical style that emerged in the mid-50s in the U.S., an accelerated and electrified rhythm & blues that changed popular music forever. Rock suggested the idea of
Donald Trump is not only insolent in his public interventions and tweets. The President of the United States can adopt a blatantly rude behavior in private meetings with his counterparts around the world, even if they are allies and have known each other for years, as is the case with Emmanuel Macron.
Florenci Pujol lived with growing anguish in the last years of his life. The use that his son, Jordi, made of Banca Catalana worried him greatly. This is evident from the unpublished entries of the diary of his son-in-law, Francesc Cabana, to which La Vanguardia has had access. Cabana, 91 years old, is the widower of Jordi Pujol’s sister. In 1988, the lawyer and economic historian published Banca Catalana. Personal Diary, a history of the entity of which he was secretary general, general director, and vice president. The volume included some entries from his diary during the time at the bank. Cabana’s personal diary, however, contained more notes that he did not include at that time.
In January 1937, when he accepts the commission from the Spanish Republic to create a large mural for the International Exhibition in Paris, Picasso is living what he would later recall as “the worst time of my life.” The painter is 54 years old and his previously carefree polygamy is showing its teeth: the divorce from Olga Koklova has become a nightmare; Marie-Thérèse Walter, the lover with whom he had started a relationship when she was still underage, has made him a father again (Maya) and he has fallen in love again with the artist and photographer Dora Maar.
The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy,” wrote the Californian political scientist Francis Fukuyama last month. “The boy discovered a flamethrower in the backyard of his house and
Since the post-World War period, the U.S. has launched its wars with fearsome displays of force and cutting-edge technology. Overwhelming victories in the initial battles that, however, end disappointingly. The Korean War ended in a stalemate. In Vietnam, with a humiliating
The wooden doors of most of the nearly 200 vaulted shops surrounding the outer part of the grand Naqsh-e Jahan square are closed. The printed fabrics, carpets, carved copper objects, among other products sold in this bazaar that has fascinated tourists for centuries, now gone, are kept inside by order of the authorities. Many of the families who usually take advantage of this time on a spring day to have a picnic have not arrived either, much less the teenage girls – many of them without veils – who enjoy riding around the square on electric motorcycles.
P edro Sánchez began to use the expression “working middle class” profusely in the summer of 2022, coinciding with the peak of inflation (10% year-on-year) caused by the war in Ukraine, which reached 10% year-on-year. It was about reaching his