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Text and selection of content: Francesc Salgado [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” z_index=”1″ min_height=”111px” custom_margin=”||2em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][dsm_content_timeline dsm_timeline_style=”left” dsm_pointer_bg_color=”#DF0000″ dsm_pointer_icon_color=”#F8F9F2″ dsm_tree_bg_color=”#DF0000″ dsm_tree_width=”2px” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”#DF0000″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” opposite_text_text_color=”#DF0000″ custom_margin=”||1em||false|false” animation_style=”fade” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1947″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” dsm_title=”A family trip” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In V\u00e1zquez Montalban\u2019s articles we rarely find references to his personal life, especially to summer trips from his childhood.<\/p>\n \u201cL\u2019any que va morir Manolete\u201d, Avui,<\/em> August 6, 1997, p. XXIV (especial Estiu) <\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1947″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1960″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” dsm_title=”The flight of Barcelona” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In one way or another, whenever there was a public holiday many citizens left the city in search of rest\u2013especially a sort of emerging middle class.<\/p>\n \u201cBarcelona no est\u00e1 en casa los domingos\u201d, El Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>, August 7, 1960, p. 32-37<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1960″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”With Dal\u00ed in Cadaqu\u00e9s” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n As a reporter for Solidaridad Nacional<\/em>, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n attends one of the regime\u2019s propaganda events. He makes no attempt to hide the fact that it\u2019s all a sham.<\/p>\n \u201cCarnaval en Cadaqu\u00e9s\u201d, Solidaridad Nacional<\/em>, August 30, 1960, p. 7 <\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Natalia Figueroa, a woman and a poet” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n The questions posed by the journalist (and poet) hide his fascination with the interviewee. Years later he would make this fascination visible by dedicating a story to the aristocrat and promising young poet. The false formality of an enamoured young man.<\/p>\n \u201cNatalia Figueroa se presenta\u201d, Solidaridad Nacional<\/em>, September 30, 1960, p. 7<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Goldsmith\u2019s apprentice Juan Mars\u00e9” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n An interview with Juan Mars\u00e9 (a lifelong friend and a man he would work with in multiple magazines in the 1970s) on the occasion of the publication of his first novel. V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n would help to shape Mars\u00e9\u2019s image as a neighbourhood man and literato, an identity he would carry with him all his life.<\/p>\n \u201cJuan Mars\u00e9, el novel\u00b7lista encerrado con un solo juguete\u201d, Solidaridad Nacional<\/em>, December 2, 1960, p. 7<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1961″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”How to capture a tram” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n A series of chapters on the history of trams in Barcelona allow him to recall when the city was known as the \u201cRose of Fire\u201d\u2013the setting for a succession of revolutionary events.<\/p>\n \u201cHistoria del tranv\u00eda barcelon\u00e8s\u201d. Solidaridad Nacional<\/em>, November 29, 1961, p. 7<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1961″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1962″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”A year and a half in prison” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Both he and his wife, Anna Sall\u00e9s, were arrested in May 1962 for protesting at the University of Barcelona. V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n lost his job and was given a sentence of three years as a warning to activist youth. Nearly 20 years later, he referred to the 18 months he spent in prison in Lleida in an article.<\/p>\n \u201cLos fuguistas\u201d. Intervi\u00fa<\/em>, March 2, 1983, n\u00ba 355, p. 41<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1962″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1965″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The Europe we want” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n After being released from prison, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n is unemployed and banned from the world of journalism. He works a series of jobs until he finally manages to find a position in the machine room of an ambitious weekly publication, Siglo 20<\/em>, where he stands out thanks to his comments on international news. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLa nueva \u201cBelle \u00c9poque\u201d, Siglo 20<\/em>, June 12, 1965, p. 22-26<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1965″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1969″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Life in the post-war years” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Finally, a convenient job in the weekly publication Triunfo<\/em> at the end of the summer of 1969 changes his life as a journalist thanks to his historical chronicle of private life and popular culture under the Franco regime. Published in six chapters, the book \u201cCr\u00f3nica sentimental de Espa\u00f1a\u201d (Sentimental Chronicle of Spain) would become a bit hit just a few months later.<\/p>\n \u201cLos a\u00f1os cuarenta\u201d<\/u>, Triunfo<\/em>, September 13, 1969<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1969″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1970″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The exile draws to a close” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n With a prudent discreetness, exiles return home to die. V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n chose the story of the poet and diplomat Josep Carner to discuss exile in anti-Francoism\u2019s most influential magazine.<\/p>\n \u201cCarner y la metaf\u00edsica nacional del exilio\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, April 11, 1970, p. 31<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1970″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Football referees” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n One day in June of 1970, Bar\u00e7a fans find out who Guruceta is and how he calls penalties. After that, \u2018guruceta\u2019 was no longer just a surname.<\/p>\n \u201cVenci\u00f3 la raza\u201d, Tele\/eXpres<\/em>, June 10, 1970, p.4<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”A new sexuality” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Young foreigners begin to come to Spain each summer, bringing with them a new, carefree life of pleasure that flies in the face of customs marked by discreetness and national Catholicism.<\/p>\n \u201cAmores con un extra\u00f1o\u201d, Tele\/eXpres<\/em>, September 1, 1970, p. 12<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1971″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Carvalho makes an appearance” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In the monthly newspaper Hogares Modernos<\/em> \u2013where he was practically the only writer\u2013 V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n was able to try out some slightly disruptive stories about a detective named Jack who worked as a decorator and solved police cases.<\/p>\n \u201cEl asesinato de Ver\u00f3nica Marple. El caso del decorador ambiguo\u201d, Hogares Modernos<\/em>, February, 1971, p. 18-19<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1971″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”A neighbour, Maoist and model ” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In the section \u201cLa Capilla Sixtina\u201d (The Sistine Chapel) he uses fiction to conceal his opinions, which he waters down and assigns to different characters. Nevertheless, some of these characters will be much more active that expected.<\/p>\n \u201cMi confesi\u00f3n\u201d, Triunfo, <\/em>May 29, 1971, p. 12 <\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1972″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The joy of discovering Paris” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n As a former prisoner, he needed plenty of contacts to get a passport. One of the first cities he visited was Paris, where he hoped to see what democracy was like in France. There, he set himself loose.<\/p>\n \u201cPar\u00eds tal vez sea una fiesta\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, February 5, 1972, p. 8-12<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1972″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Gabriel Ferrater” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Always focused on his true calling, poetry, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n expressed himself as though life had struck him a blow every time one of the poets he admired died\u2013particularly when death came so early.<\/p>\n \u201cEn la muerte de Gabriel Ferrater\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, May 13, 1972, p. 53<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The graphic feminism of N\u00faria Pompeia” dsm_content=”V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n writes the text for a series of drawings by the illustrator that denounce the domesticated existence women in Spain are subjected to: society forces them to marry and serve their husbands. In Andorra, these drawings would also be published in the book La Educaci\u00f3n de Palmira (Palmira\u2019s Education). <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLa educaci\u00f3n de Palmira\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, entre desembre de 1970 i juliol de 1972<\/a>” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Against Richard Nixon” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n After the killings caused by American intervention in Vietnam, Nixon again won the elections. The journalist\u2019s heart bursts open and his brain is flooded with indignation.<\/p>\n \u201cCheque en blanco\u201d Tele\/eXpres<\/em>, November 8, 1972, p. 10<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1973″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Chavela Vargas” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n An unusual homage to an artist who was both popular and politically involved. The journalist dedicates a poem to her where it almost seems as if he has been struck by a brief return to adolescence.<\/p>\n Article:<\/p>\n \u201cChavela Vargas\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, July 17, 1973, p. 21<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1973″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The coup in Chile” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n After months of rumours and stirrings in the ranks, a military officer comes to save the interests of the elites in the name of the fatherland. Chilean democracy falls after Augusto Pinochet stages a coup with the support of the United States. This marks the start of 25 years of dictatorship.<\/p>\n \u201cEl irritante Allende\u201d, Tele\/eXpres<\/em>, September 12, 1973, p. 10<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1974″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The death penalty” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n A few days before prisoners Puig Antich and Heinz Chez were to be executed using the garrote vil, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n wrote a text against capital punishment in hopes that the head of state, Francisco Franco, would heed pressure from Europe not to apply the death penalty.<\/p>\n \u201cLa pena de muerte\u201d, Triunfo, <\/em>January 26, 1974, p. 25<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1974″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Portugal in our hearts” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n When Portugal\u2019s peaceful Carnation Revolution brings an end to 40 years of dictatorship, it\u2019s a breath of fresh air for democratic Spaniards. Some, like the journalist\u2019s alter ego and his neighbour Encarna, find time to travel there and see an effective, democratic initiative firsthand.<\/p>\n \u201cCon Encarna en Portugal\u201d, Triunfo, <\/em>May 25, 1974, p. 35<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Fiction and satire ” dsm_content=”A liberal wave filled magazine covers with female bodies and, with a bit more elegance, imaginations ran wild. As presumptive authors and promoters of the satirical weekly Por Favor<\/em>, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n and Juan Mars\u00e9 were tried for this adult version of a children\u2019s story.<\/p>\n \u201cEl Lobo Feroz y Caperucita roja\u201d, Por Favor<\/em>, April 29, 1974, p. 38-39<\/a>” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1975″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The death of Franco” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n When the dictator dies, a flood of targeted information fills Spain. It seeks to perpetrate a personality cult that was born shortly after the coup in 1936. Subject to serious restrictions, a satirical publication like Por Favor,<\/em> did its best to subtly emphasize the cynicism of the message from the head of the government, Arias Navarro.<\/p>\n \u201cAunque la noticia\u201d, Por Favor<\/em>, December 1, 1975, p. 4<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1975″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1976″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”A new newspaper in Catalan” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Aware of the significance of the first newspaper in Catalan since the Spanish Civil War, he writes about it in Triunfo<\/em>. At the time, Catalonia initiated part of the political and civic changes that would take place in the rest of Spain.<\/p>\n \u201cAvui, el refer\u00e9ndum de un pa\u00eds\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, May 1, 1976, p. 17<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1976″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Paying a visit to Josep Taradellas” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Once it becomes known that Josep Taradellas is working discreetly with President Su\u00e1rez to return to Catalonia, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n recalls a visit he had paid to the Taradella\u2019s official residence-in-exile a year before.<\/p>\n \u201cL\u2019honorable Tarradellas\u201d, Mundo Diario,<\/em> October 2,1976, p. 3<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1977″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Carvalho in the press” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n During a year and a half, Carvalho \u2013little known, as he had only appeared in the first two novels\u2013 becomes the protagonist of a series of articles in Interviu<\/em>, the most widely read weekly publication of the day. This would consolidate the character as the journalist\u2019s alter ego.<\/p>\n \u201cLa tortilla de Biscuter\u201d, Intervi\u00fa, <\/em>January 6,1977, p. 14<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1977″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Criminal Francoism” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Spain was shocked by the murder of five individuals in an office of labour lawyers in Madrid\u2019s Atotcha neighbourhood. The protest, organized by the PCE party \u2013which was still illegal\u2013 was a powerful call for coexistence.<\/p>\n \u201cCamaradas\u201d, Triunfo<\/em>, February 5, 1977, p. 10<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The PSUC and PCE become legal” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n On Holy Saturday, 1977, the PCE is legalized. This is one of the few reconciliatory decisions that are directly connected to the Spanish Civil War. There\u2019s an outcry from the regime\u2019s most Francoist sectors to revive a beast from the Civil War, but Adolfo Su\u00e1rez needs Europe to validate Spain\u2019s new democracy. V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n dives headlong into these events in Por Favor.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cC\u00f3mo se legaliz\u00f3 lo que se legaliz\u00f3\u201d, Por Favor<\/em>, April 18, 1977, p. 4<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1978″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Living against Franco” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Bit by bit, as the formal changes that lead to democracy take place, feelings of dissatisfaction also spread: life hasn\u2019t changed all that much. What\u2019s going on? A certain disillusion is palpable throughout the country despite Spain\u2019s internal propaganda and international prestige.<\/p>\n \u201cContra Franco viv\u00edamos major\u201d, La Calle<\/em>, May 2, 1978, p. 14-15<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1978″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1979″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The army conspires” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n With ceaseless extremist violence, the Atocha massacre, the bomb planted in the offices of El Papus<\/em> and the impunity of far-right gangs, Sixto C\u00e1mara deduces that a coup is possible.<\/p>\n \u201cEl golpe que no cesa\u201d, La Calle<\/em>, October 2,1979, p. 11 <\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1979″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1980″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The last tourist” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In a supposed crisis of national tourism, it\u2019s important to determine what type of tourists we need, and how many. This is a debate that has been going on for forty years.<\/p>\n \u201cAdi\u00f3s, turista, adi\u00f3s\u201d, Intervi\u00fa<\/em>, July 31, 1980, p. 32<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1980″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1981″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The coup d\u2019etat” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Two weeks after an attempted coup in February of 1981, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n wonders if, as everyone suspected, the assault failed due to the arrest of some of the individuals involved, or if it truly succeeded in having a significant impact on Spanish politics.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cEl golpe, \u00bfha fracasado?\u201d, La Calle<\/em>, March 10, 1981, p. 20<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1981″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Everyday machismo” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n V\u00e1zquez addresses the aggressive, repulsive custom of men who remark loudly on women\u2019s appearance as though anyone was interested in their opinion. Carvalho, now back in the press, responds.<\/p>\n \u201c\u00a1Tia buena! \u00a1t\u00eda buena! \u00a1t\u00eda buena!\u201d Intervi\u00fa<\/em>, Octiber 6, 1982, 43<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1982″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”TV3\u2019s debut” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n welcomes the first day of emissions on TV3. He remarks on the quality of the product and the omnipresence of the president of the Government of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol, as the electoral campaign is in full swing.<\/p>\n \u201cMen\u00e0ge a trois\u201d, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, January 18, 1984<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ dsm_opposite_text=”1984″ module_id=”any1984″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Torturers” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Sometimes it\u2019s important to remember that besides being free with no fear of repercussions, torturers are still employed by the police. This is noted in an investigation Amnesty International conducted across Europe, where each country is a child of its past.<\/p>\n \u201cTortura\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>July 19, 1984<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1984″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″ module_class=”empty_timeline”][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1985″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Sport as a vice” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n An intelligent, playful article on trends in urban sport that, of course, has a dark side tied to the author\u2019s own circumstances.<\/p>\n \u201cFooting\u201d, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, Marcj 11, 1984<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1985″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1986″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Against NATO” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Spain is drawing nearer to a schizophrenic referendum that isn\u2019t about leaving NATO, as the socialists had promised, but about whether to remain in it. An intense debate is going on in the press; it includes a whole series of professional NATO advocates who seem to have appeared out of thin air.<\/p>\n \u201cSubliminal\u201d, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, January 30, 1986.<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1986″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”New consumption” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n As a gastronome and chef, for some time V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n has observed changes in the international commerce that affects our customs and refrigerators.<\/p>\n \u201cDe todo\u201d, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, October 30, 1986.<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1987″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Matrimony” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n Homosexual couples begin to make themselves visible, giving rise to a debate on their right to marry. V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n offers them his support while also warning that this institution generally worsens couples\u2019 relationships.<\/p>\n \u201cMatrimonios\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>September 7, 1987, p. 40<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1987″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1989″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Who will free Barcelona?” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n During the commemoration of the end of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, some individuals still refer to it as \u201cthe liberation of the city\u201d, as though the movement that started the war hadn\u2019t been a coup, and as if the word \u201cliberation\u201d wasn\u2019t a manipulation of the past.<\/p>\n \u201cLa liberaci\u00f3n de la ciudad\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>January 28, 1989 <\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1989″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Lucid, simple humour ” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n No one could express more ideas in so few words. Making smallness a subtle criticism of the senselessness of our lives couldn\u2019t be any simpler.<\/p>\n \u201cGila o la encarnaci\u00f3n de la mem\u00f2ria\u201d El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>September 16, 1989, p. 22<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The Berlin Wall” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n A first-hand evaluation just a few days after the world was left speechless by the disappearance of one of the Cold War\u2019s most well-known symbols. It\u2019s worth reviewing these initial reactions in view of the changes that have taken place in the international scene in the last 30 years.<\/p>\n \u201cEl muro de Berl\u00edn\u201d, Intervi\u00fa<\/em>, November 20, 1989, p. 161-162<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1990″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”\u201cLife is serious\u201d” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n One day, suddenly, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n has to deal with the death of numerous princes of poetry. All these deaths are premature and hard to face.<\/p>\n \u201cJ\u00f3venes pr\u00edncipes\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>January 9, 1990, p. 27<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1990″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1991″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”The AIDS outbreak” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n In just a few months, the outbreak of an epidemic was transformed into a means of humiliating and discriminating against certain communities. Only the passage of time has replaced the limits of this disease, now a chronic pathology, to exclusively physiological effects.<\/p>\n \u201cSida\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>November 30, 1991, p. 22<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1991″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1992″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Post-Olympic hangover” dsm_content=”All things come to an end. Even the \u201cbest Olympics ever\u201d It\u2019s time to take a deep breath and look ahead.<\/p>\n \u201cLa resaca\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>October 12, 1992, p. 22<\/a>” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1992″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_id=”any1994″ dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Berlusconi makes his appearance in politics ” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n For a member of the new rich to find a place in politics thanks to the populist power of his own TV station is dangerous enough. However, at certain times, Berlusconi\u2019s power becomes unbearable.<\/p>\n \u201cAlgo m\u00e1s que un partido\u201d, El Pa\u00eds, <\/em>May 16, 1994, p. 12<\/a><\/p>\n ” dsm_use_pointer_element=”on” dsm_select_pointer_option=”image” dsm_opposite_text=”1994″ dsm_opposite_bg_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_font_size=”1.3em” opposite_text_text_align=”right” opposite_text_text_color=”#020B11″ opposite_text_font_size=”1.5em” background_color=”#ffffff” background_enable_color=”on” custom_padding=”1em|2em|1em|2em|false|true” border_color_all=”#DF0000″ border_width_top=”1px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_all_image_icon=”#DF0000″ border_color_all_opposite_border=”#DF0000″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_header_level=”h4″][\/dsm_content_timeline_child][dsm_content_timeline_child module_class=”empty_timeline” dsm_use_icon_image=”off” title_text=”Line 2″ dsm_title=”Diego Armando Maradona” dsm_content=”<\/p>\n It looks like the end of the road. Maradona, who now plays for Naples, is banned from the World Cup in the US due to consumption of five banned substances. Nevertheless, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n sees Maradona as nothing more than a victim of himself and his businesses.<\/p>\nJournalistic articles<\/h2>\n
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