Sam Jones
@swajones.bsky.social
Madrid correspondent for the Guardian. Concebollista.
Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago
Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in Chile
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Sam Jones@swajones.bsky.social · 2mo ago'The irony would be comical were it not so tragic: we, the Sahrawi people whose land was used to film parts of the Odyssey, have been living our own brutal odyssey for more than 50 years'. By Mohamed Sleiman Labat www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Should @andyburnham appoint a diaspora minister? Since Brexit British citizens abroad but also globally find it difficult to deal with Home Office - as per the hundreds of stories I have done in past years .
'The irony would be comical were it not so tragic: we, the Sahrawi people whose land was used to film parts of the Odyssey, have been living our own brutal odyssey for more than 50 years'. By Mohamed Sleiman Labat www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey
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In about fifteen minutes there is due to be, if you believe London WhatsApp groups, some sort of riot in Stratford based on this viral image. but all I’m obsessed with is the AI generated line about “drinks and food will be provided” like someone’s mum will turn up with some clingfilmed sandwiches.
“This year will mark 45 years since an Iberia commercial flight from New York landed in Madrid with its pilot announcing to the surprised passengers that they had just travelled with one of the country’s most famous exiles…” My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Picasso’s Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | María Ramírez
Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez
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Chile takes the pisco … 'A honey business calling itself Miel Gibson – using a still from Braveheart on the label – won the right to keep using the name after the actor sued'. Via @jwbartlett92.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Pedro Pascal v Pedro Piscal: actor in legal battle with Chilean spirit brand
Pedro Piscal pisco is latest Chilean brand to resemble a Hollywood name – and others have fought off the lawsuits
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Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
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'While Picasso’s fury sprang from the Nazi bombing of the Basque market town from which his painting takes its name, Dumile Feni’s rage, rendered in charcoal and pencil, was the product of living under apartheid in South Africa.' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The violence of racist tyranny’: African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpiece
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme
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Again, imagine *any* female CEO doing this...
Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴☠️@mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf that ain't the perfect day for the Apocalypse...
As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...
‘It’s just a bomb’
The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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A solas con las Pinturas Negras de Goya: "Perro semihundido" (entre 1820 y 1823)
"Doctor, I have trouble sleeping." "Go and see the great singer Morrissey, you'll be asleep in no time." "But Doctor..."
🔴 El escritor peruano Alfredo Bryce Echenique ha muerto a los 87 años. Echenique, autor de ‘Un mundo para Julius’ o ‘Reo de nocturnidad’, fue uno de los grandes referentes de la generación post-boom de la narrativa latinoamericana
Muere el escritor peruano Bryce Echenique a los 87 años
Autor de ‘Un mundo para Julius’ o ‘Reo de nocturnidad’, es una de la figuras clave de las letras latinoamericanas
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Gripping read, culmination of many months' work by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
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#Peru's congress just removed José Jerí, the country's 8th president since 2016. #chifagate www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Peru’s president ousted in ‘express impeachment’ after just four months
Interim president José Jerí voted out by country’s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings
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“If you are reading this, is because I am dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live My last message is simple: don’t give up on truth” Carlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
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'Looking back shows you that freedom, life and democracy are never guaranteed, and that we must fight every day to preserve them.' An English translation of the final, posthumous column by the Spanish journalist and writer Carlos Hernández, who died this week. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
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El periodista Carlos Hernández, que ha fallecido este martes a los 56 años, dejó este texto escrito para que fuera publicado en elDiario.es tras su muerte: Carta desde el más allá www.eldiario.es/sociedad/car...
Carta desde el más allá: la despedida de Carlos Hernández
El periodista Carlos Hernández, que ha fallecido este martes a los 56 años, dejó este texto escrito para que fuera publicado en elDiario.es tras su muerte
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Quiero mandar un abrazo enorme a compañeros, familias y amigos de Carlos Hernández. Su carrera ha sido un ejemplo de compromiso. Su trabajo para dar a conocer los campos de concentración creados por el franquismo tiene un valor incalculable para la memoria democrática de nuestro país.
elDiario.es@eldiario.es · 7mo ago❗ Muere el periodista y escritor Carlos Hernández a los 56 años
Very sad to hear that Carlos Hernández has died. Such a great journalist, writer and historian. He was also very generous with both his time and his huge knowledge. DEP.
elDiario.es@eldiario.es · 7mo agoEl colaborador de @eldiario.es, que fue corresponsal de guerra y arrojó luz sobre los miles de españoles deportados a campos nazis, ha fallecido a unos días de cumplir 57 años
“We were all too busy chuckling over the meme to see that the incomplete restoration was never the story – the restorer was” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cecilia Giménez’s botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones
The restorer, who died on Monday, brought unwanted attention to herself – and her small Spanish town. Then, slowly, a small miracle took place, says Sam Jones, the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent
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