Juan Carlos Padilla lives in an apartment building with crumbling walls, exposed electrical wiring and peeling linoleum floors. It’s far from luxurious. But the rent the 27-year-old sometime construction worker pays makes it all worthwhile: nothing. Padilla is among an estimated 1,500 young Spaniards who have taken over empty buildings as homes, triggering major clashes …
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Desperate African Refugees Stranded in Spain, Just Short of Europe
Ceuta is an enclave tucked between Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Spanish Civil War Volunteers Gather Near Madrid for Emotional Reunion
Some 370 former members of the Lincoln Brigade recalled their bittersweet fight to defeat fascism.
Thousands March in Spain’s basque Country to Protest Murder of ETA Hostage
The 29-year-old accountant was found handcuffed and shot Saturday afternoon in a wooded area near the Basque city of San Sebastian.
Spain’s Former Covert Operations Chief Sent to Jail in Death Squads Scandal
Col. Juan Alberto Perote ran the clandestine operations section of the government’s spy agency in the mid-1980s.
2,000 Sheep Walk Through Madrid to Save Spain’s Livestock Pathways
Shepherds herded sheep through downtown Madrid to draw attention to efforts to safeguard the country’s historic livestock byways.
Flash Flood Devastates Pyrenees Campground Leaving More Than 60 Dead
Floods ripped through the Virgen de Las Nieves camp site near the town of Biescas, Spain, 15 miles from the French border.
Suspect in Jan Philipp Reemtsma Kidnapping Is Arrested in Spain
Wolfgang Koszics was detained as he drove near the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday.