March 11
The anniversary of the 2004 Madrid bombings has become the focus for some of Spain’s most hateful divisions.
Guy is a Madrid-based journalist who has lived in Spain since 2003. He is co-editor of Iberosphere.
Between 2006 and 2009 he was editor of the English edition of El País newspaper and as a freelance print and broadcast journalist he has covered Spain for Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle Radio, the BBC and the Associated Press. Previously he covered the Andean region, where he was founder/editor of the Ecuador Focus weekly report and reported for the Financial Times, The Miami Herald, National Public Radio and CNN.
He can be reached at: [email protected]The anniversary of the 2004 Madrid bombings has become the focus for some of Spain’s most hateful divisions.
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