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Veronica Gomez, who was traveling with her partner and her son, receives backpacks from a humanitarian worker on Oct 1. The backpacks included energy bars, toiletries and ski masks, for the cold weather.

Amid pandemic, Venezuelans hit the road again in search of work

Migration

As neighboring countries reopen their economies, thousands of Venezuelan migrants are leaving the country again to look for work. But the pandemic is making their route through South America tougher. 

A man is shown in shadow walking past darked machinery.

Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela’s industrial survivors

Business, Economics and Jobs
refugees are rescued on the Mediterranean Sea

After turning away rescued migrants, Italy’s far-right claim ‘victory’ when Spain opens port

Immigration
Relatives of inmates held at the General Command of the Carabobo Police react as they wait outside the prison, where a fire occurred in the cells area, according to local media, in Valencia, Venezuela, March 28, 2018.

68 killed in Venezuelan police station riot and fire

Conflict
Festival

Meet the dress history expert outfitting Valencia for the Las Fallas festival

Arts
Barcelona soccer fans make their feelings known about Catalan independence, at a game on Wednesday Oct 18th 2017

The roots of Catalonia’s differences with the rest of Spain

Culture

With Catalonia threatening to declare independence from Spain, we look into the origins of the dispute between Barcelona and Madrid.

Adriana Ugarte plays Sira Quiroga, a seamstress turned spy in The Time Between Seams. It was the most popular TV drama in Spanish history.

In Spain, a beautiful seamstress from another era has created a sewing revival

Arts, Culture & Media

Amazon’s Spanish affiliate was flooded with orders for sewing machines every Monday night after “The Time Between Seams” aired this fall. It’s the most popular TV drama in Spanish history and stars a beautiful and daring seamstress turned spy, set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.

New information revealed in photos of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Dangerous Summer’

Arts, Culture & Media

Ernest Hemingway captures the imagination of many Americans. His summer of 1959 was well-documented in photos, but for the longest time no one knew who was in the photos, or where they were taken. Now more information has come to life, thanks to extensive research.

Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Dangerous Summer’

Arts, Culture & Media

Librarian Megh Testerman has gone through thousands of photographs taken during Ernest Hemingway’s bullfighting summer 1959 in Spain.

Spanish baker upends system by slashing price of bread by 80 percent

Business, Economics and Jobs

In Spain, a loaf of bread has typically cost a euro. But times are tough there, and one baker in the Valencia region decided to slash the price to just 20 euro cents. In so doing, he’s upended the system, and captured a whole bunch of new customers at the same time.