Gerry Hadden
Spain to Sue Germany over E. Coli Allegations
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German researchers are still trying to identify the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak after Spanish cucumbers were found not to have the lethal strain. The E. coli strain has killed 16 people in Germany and Sweden so far. Spain is threatening legal action after its growers were forced to destroy tonnes of freshly harvested vegetables. Gerry Hadden has more. Download MP3
How Not to Dismantle a Pacifist Bomb
Last Friday, May 25, 2011, I arrived at Barcelona’s main square, Plaza de Catalunya, too late to witness the police injure nearly 100 young protestors by beating them with rubberized metal truncheons and shooting them with rubber bullets. When I got there the municipal garbage trucks were already in the square, cleaning out debris and the collected belongings of “the Indignants,” the 300 Spaniards camped out since May 15 demanding fundamental changes in Spain’s political and economic system [...]
Spain’s Nino Bravo Museum
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Nino Bravo (1944-1973) was an international success in Spain and especially in Latin America, where he sang songs that won him millions of fans and then bans. He died at 28 in a car crash outside of Madrid. In all he produced three albums. In Ayelo, Spain there’s a museum about him. Gerry Hadden has more. Download MP3
Spanish Claim on Coca Cola
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Credit for Coke’s secret recipe goes to an American pharmacist named John Pemberton. But if you ask around a certain tiny village in southeast Spain, people tell a different story. They say they invented Coke first. The World’s Gerry Hadden went to Ayelo to learn more. Download MP3
How Europe Views President Obama
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The World’s Gerry Hadden looks at how Europeans feel these days about President Barack Obama. While he remains personally popular, there is an increasing distaste for US policy. Download MP3
Spain’s Unemployed Youth Rise Up
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Thousands of demonstrators are continuing their protest in Spain against the country’s economic crisis. With nearly five million people jobless, Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Europe. Gerry Hadden has more. Download MP3
Standing Still When No One Else Will
My friend Charlie and I stared into the room, mouths agape. There on the floor before us, rolling about on a bunch of mismatched mattresses, were a half dozen naked people, interacting in an unmistakably affectionate manner. It was hot and I began to sweat. I had never seen, well, an orgy before, much less been invited to one. Actually we hadn’t been invited. And we weren’t going to be. Charlie looked at me deadpan and stated the obvious [...]
In Spain, stolen babies come to light, unleashing grief, legal action
Beyond the debate over the numbers, whether we’re talking about 3,000 or 300,000 illegal adoptions, there’s the story of Antonio Barroso. Antonio is 42. His whole life he’d suspected he’d been adopted. But his parents always denied it. You’re our son, they said. And then, when he was 38, his phone rang. It was a childhood friend. That friend had just left his own father’s death bed and come away with a confession. Both he and Antonio were adopted [...]
Lynsey’s Armor
The New York Times, quoting ABC News, reports that the son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Gadaffi, Seif Islam el-Gadaffi, has said that the four NYT journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday are in state custody and will be released in Tripoli Friday [...]
Nations look so pretty from afar
Berber activists in Morocco see in the country’s current political upheaval a chance to press for their own demands: the use of the Berber language in more public schools; official recognition of the Berbers in the Moroccan constitution; and the repatriation of the remains of one of their heroes, Abd El-Krim. Abd El-Krim expelled the Spanish from Northern Morocco in 1921, then presided over his “Rif Republic” for five years – the time it took Europe to drive that gadfly into exile in Egypt, where he died and still rests [...]
I Am Very Great to Meet You Again
I don’t speak Arabic, and Mustafa speaks only a little French. Along with eight words of English.
“I am very great to meet you again,” he says, smiling, as we shake hands outside my hotel in downtown Rabat.
“I am very great as well,” I say [...]
From Blogger to Hero … to Political Leader?
On a recent evening at a busy downtown Rabat café, a long-haired, bearded young man carrying a black briefcase comes waltzing in through the front door. He has the look of someone looking for someone else. His energy is contagious. His dark eyes scan the sea of tables. They stop on me. I nod. He nods back. “Sorry I’m late,” he says, in French, sliding into the booth next to me [...]
In Today’s Morocco, Everyone’s a Democrat
As the Arab world demands greater democracy – and appears to be winning it in the streets – activists and politicians from across Morocco’s ideological spectrum are scrambling to establish their democratic credentials. The sense is that greater democracy is coming – whether it be through popular revolt or swift reforms from the royal palace – and no one wants to be left behind [...]
Some in Bugarach, France Fear World’s End
The World’s Gerry Hadden traveled to Bugarach in France, where there are some people who believe the world will end on the 2012 winter solstice. The mayor and some in town are worried that as the date draws closer the hordes will start arriving.
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