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After he asked a few questions about the band, the woman finally introduced herself. Emerson then realized that he had been speaking with Rosanne Cash, the song writer and daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash.
Fortunately for me, Amsterdam was pleasantly manageable. Van Gogh and the Rijksmuseum, check. Requisite picture near the “I Amsterdam” sign, check. Overeating like the country of overeaters we were proud to represent, check. One might say it was our patriotic duty.
The charges against Garzón date to 2008, when, at the request of victims' family members, he opened an investigation into the disappearance of an estimated 114,000 people during Spain's 1936-39 civil war and the early years of the dictatorship that followed. As legal justification for...
"No judge can just jump over the laws of the country," says Miguel Bernad, secretary general of Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), the group that filed the complaint against Garzón for alleged prevarication - or knowingly issuing erroneous judgments. "And in Spain, we have an amnesty law," he adds. Passed...
The answer to that question may have less to do with the divisiveness surrounding the memories of the Franco regime than with Garzón himself. The man the media routinely calls "superjudge" is perhaps the world's leading practitioner of universal jurisdiction, a legal principle that holds that in...