Opinions of Pedro González

Pedro González
Londres, Reino Unido - PHOTO/PIXABAY

First expel, appeal later

It had to be a socialist government that took decisive action against irregular immigration without being overwhelmed by the ‘right-thinking’…
<p>El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump - REUTERS/NATHAN HOWARD</p>

A Nobel Prize for Trump

Being the most powerful man in the world guarantees daily coverage on the front pages of every newspaper in the world
<p>Drusos observan cómo el Ejército israelí coloca un muro de hormigón en la línea de alto el fuego entre los Altos del Golán ocupados por Israel y Siria, en medio del conflicto en curso en las zonas drusas de Siria, en Majdal Shams, el 17 de julio de 2025 - REUTERS/ AMMAR AWAD&nbsp;</p>

Druze, Israel's powerful ally

More than a thousand people have been killed in violent clashes between Druze and Syrian Bedouins in Sweida , the theoretical capital of the Druze…
<p>El presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, junto al jefe del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas Armadas Francesas (CEMA), Thierry Burkhard, durante la ceremonia militar anual del Día de la Bastilla en la avenida de los Campos Elíseos en París, Francia, el 14 de julio de 2025 - REUTERS/GONZALO FUENTES&nbsp;</p>

Ready for battle

For cultural and sentimental reasons, I have celebrated and sympathised for many years with the commemoration of the storming of the Bastille, which…
Abdou Diop, socio director de la consultora Forvis Mazars, y Pau Solanilla Franco, socio de Harmon y consultor en asuntos globales - PHOTO/ATALAYAR

Africa, a door ajar to new prosperity

If anyone still clings to the cliché of Africa as a continent eternally condemned to underdevelopment and backwardness, and an inexhaustible source…
<p>El líder espiritual tibetano, el Dalai Lama - REUTERS/ CLODAGH KILCOYNE&nbsp;</p>

The Tibet problem resurfaces

Of all the internal problems faced by China , that immense world with fifty nationalities and ethnic groups among its 1.45 billion inhabitants, the…
Conmemoración del 7 de octubre en español: Del dolor a la esperanza - PHOTO/PEDRO GONZÁLEZ

From pain to hope

Given the deterioration of relations between the Spanish and Israeli governments, it is surprising that an exhibition dedicated to the personal…
El rey Carlos III y el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, participan en una ceremonia de bienvenida en el Castillo de Windsor el 10 de julio de 2023, en Windsor, Inglaterra - PHOTO/Sargento Donald C Todd vía REUTERS

What is the purpose of a king?

It was Farouk, the last king of Egypt, who, when he was overthrown in 1952, predicted that ‘one day there will only be five kings left in the world,…
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, asiste a un foro empresarial en Qasr Al Watan durante la última escala de su visita al Golfo, en Abu Dabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos - REUTERS/AMR ALFIKY

Trump redesigns the Middle East

Even his fiercest rivals in the Democratic Party acknowledge that the 47th president of the United States has decisively redrawn the map of the…
El papa Francisco I - PHOTO/ @Pontifex_es

‘Good morning, I am Francis’

Accustomed to the pomp and ceremony of twenty centuries of history, the dignitaries of the Catholic Church never ceased to express their surprise at…