Pomp Without the Glory

In this week’s Camino a Ítaca we travel to the British Iles to see what we can learn from recent events there. Click over to read the original Spanish version in el HOY or read the English translation below. (PDF abajo)  The island nation that gifted the world things like trains, the internet, parliamentary democracy…

Hereditary Privilege

If you happen to have turned on the news this past week you might have been surprised to see that only one event seems to have happened across the entire globe. The Queen has left the building. In this week’s Camino a Ítaca I look at the succession from the perspective of a Canadian who…

Anachronisms

“Aren’t the ‘colonies’ curious my dear?” In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a less jubliant Royal Jubilee. Click over to read the original piece in Spanish in el HOY or 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,…