Juan Salas was in Paris in March, alongside ALBA's Robert Coale, to present With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain, the rediscovered film by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline (clip here), at Cinéma du Réel, the prestigous international documentary film festival. Here is an interview with Juan (in French) from the Festival...
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ALBA has just issued a press release (versión en español) with further details on the May 14 annual celebration, featuring ALBA/Puffin Awardee Baltasar Garzón:

A pre-event benefit will feature a question-and-answer session and the opportunity to meet Judge Garzón over a light lunch.   Judge Garzón will be interviewed by Jonathan Turley,...
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A news item buried  in yesterday's edition of the Spanish e-paper El Plural called attention to a little-known case pending in Spain's Constitutional Court, whose outcome could have definitive repercussions on two of Garzón's three cases. There is an anomalous figure in Spanish law known as "acusación popular", which allows unharmed citizens to press...
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Some additional English-language coverage from the Associated Press:

In his latest altercation with the Spanish legal system, Garzon was probing a network of businesses that allegedly paid money and gifts to members of Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party in exchange for lucrative contracts in towns and regions governed by that party. As part...
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There seems to be no end to the legal and historical ironies associated with Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is currently facing three sets charges in the Spanish Supreme Court. If he loses the first one--for opening an investigation into crimes against humanity committed by the Franco regime--he, the judge, would be the first person...
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"Judge Baltasar Garzón is soon to appear in the Supreme Court over wiretaps that he ordered to listen in on conversations between lawyers and the heads of the corrupt "Gürtel" business network," the English edition of El País reports:

The judge in charge of the case, Alberto Jorge Barreiro, announced Monday that the...
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Nest Tuesday, April 12th, at 6pm, the Center for Worker Education, City College, CUNY & The Frances S. Patai Fund is hosting a talk by Prof. Isabelle Rohr on American Medical Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The lectures is free and open to the public, at the Center for Worker Education, 7th Floor Auditorium...
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Nick Lyne offers an overview and analysis in today's Iberosphere of the case brought on behalf of Judge Garzón to the European Court of Human Rights (see also last week's ALBA editorial on the topic):

Garzón’s supporters claim there is nothing coincidental about the fact that the trial for malfeasance...
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More heart-wrenching clippings from New York’s Spanish-language press, this time from the Brooklyn-based paper, Frente Popular.  The war is over, and the international network of Spanish Republican immigrants and exiles is abuzz with desperate attempts to locate loved ones.  Spaniards fleeing from Franco  have been corralled into horrific concentration camps in southern France, and...
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Can the lessons of the Spanish Civil War be applied to the situation in Libya? The debate has been ongoing. George Will contributed to the discussion yesterday in his Washington Post column:

Now the administration must decide how to characterize those on whose behalf we have gone to war. They are...
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