How About a Round of Monopoly?
Chavez and Griñán In this week’s Camino a Ítaca we look at the pardons that lie around the corner for two prominent Socialist executives who have been charged with serious…
No ‘Mea’ and No ‘Culpa’
…recognition and accountability. After decades of requests, the church finally relented. Anticipation was high as the Argentinian landed on the great plains and many believers and non-believers alike eagerly attended…
Personas No Gratas
…away and collapse like the abandoned XII century Almohad tower that slowly disintegrates in the Adarve del Cristo? The fact that families have not completely abandoned the old town in…
¿Qué Calor?
It’s getting warm along the Camino a Ítaca. Successive heatwaves have already struck here in Spain and it’s not even July yet. Click over to read the originally published piece…
Inflation
…translation below. (PDF abajo) After living and working on four continents, my social media feeds can at times seem like a BBC world weather report. Friends living in Australia and…
Anachronisms
…read the English version below. What do such diverse countries as Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Great Britain, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,…
Snake Charmers
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a spider bite turns into a near mortal experience in a barbaric country. The populist No-Tax brigades are once again singing their siren songs from…
Sacamantecas…Here Comes the Bogeyman!
The specter of something dark and frightening runs through this week’s Camino a Ítaca. Progressive politicians afraid of their own shadow look on with terror as real-life Bogeymen and women…
How do you Say your Surname?
This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks back to my childhood and then turns to the deadly present. A look at War. Click over to read the originally published version in…
The Great Silence
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca there is silence. A great silence that seems to have been purchased at an extreme and dangerous cost. If the Emperor isn’t wearing any…