On Monday, May 15, Javier Valdez was murdered just blocks from his office in Culiacán, Sinaloa. He was a courageous journalist and a tenacious defender of victims of the drug war. His work gave voice to those living through the Continue reading
Bob Long is a modern Spanish historian and an accomplished jazz pianist. He was interviewed for TBI’s Freedom of Expression blog as part of his guest editor series, which included last week’s post on Picasso’s Guernica. In this interview, accompanied by Continue reading
The story has been told before many times, but always deserves a retelling. In the years of the German occupation of Paris between 1940 and 1944, Gestapo officers stationed there made a habit of dropping by Pablo Picasso’s studio on Continue reading
Alejandro Meter is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of San Diego. He is serving as Guest Editor of TBI’s Freedom of Expression Blog for the week of 4/24 to 4/28, with posts examining the history and memory Continue reading
