Feeling the Heat: A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent in Spain: From the Financial Crisis to the Pandemic
Feeling the Heat: A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent in Spain: From the Financial Crisis to the Pandemic by Raphael Minder
English | October 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1789761492 | EPUB | pages | 1.5 MB
English | October 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1789761492 | EPUB | pages | 1.5 MB
Raphael Minder landed in Madrid in 2010 to cover Spain for The New York Times just as the dark clouds of the financial crisis were about to burst into a full-fledged euro debt storm. “A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent” follows the turbulent and momentous events that have reshaped the country’s political landscape: a secessionist movement in Catalonia, the end of Spain’s two-party system, and a desperate attempt to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
With a correspondent’s keen eye, this book takes the reader on an extraordinary journey of discovery – from the most remote corners of Spain, where an arid soil produces delicious truffles; to Moroccan hashish trafficked alongside migrants; to the historical repercussions of American nuclear bombs; and not least to the central square of Madrid, where Spain’s radical left-wing movement was born.
The book shines a light on Spain through colorful anecdotes that help explain the fraught present, as well as the charged past, of a nation that only returned to democracy in the 1970s. It offers an unbiased perspective on an emotionally-charged decade that has polarized Spain.