Guy Hedgecoe

Guy Hedgecoe is co-editor of the website Iberosphere, which provides news, comment and analysis of Spain and the Iberian world. He was previously editor of the English-language edition of El Pais, and founded and edited the Ecuador Focus weekly bulletin and the Qorreo website

Sortu and ETA: Basque politics, Spanish law

Spain’s supreme court has refused to register a new Basque political party pledged to non-violence, because of its suspected links with the banned terrorist group ETA. But the decision is more complex than it appears, says Guy Hedgecoe.

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 8 Apr 2011

Spain's politics of memory

The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was soon reclaimed by Spain’s enduring political warfare over the national past, says Guy Hedgecoe.

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 11 Mar 2010

Spain, Europe and the world: Zapatero’s moment

Spain’s tenure of the European Union’s presidency is a rare opportunity for its prime minister to make his mark on the international stage, says Guy Hedgecoe.

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 11 Jan 2010

ETA and the Basque labyrinth

Much has changed in Spain's Basque Country over the three and a half decades since dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975. The huge, titanium-plated Guggenheim museum on

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 20 Aug 2009

Rafael Correa: an Ecuadorian journey

Rafael Correa's landslide election victory on 27 April 2009 makes him the first candidate since Ecuador's return to democracy in 1979 to win a presidential vote

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 29 Apr 2009

Ecuador’s hyper-political wave

The result of the referendum held on 28 September 2008 on a new Ecuadorian constitution is the latest in a series of major victories at the ballot for Ecuador'

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 30 Sep 2008

Ecuador’s politics of expectation

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, delivered his state-of-the-nation address on 15 January 2008 in the coastal city of Ciudad Alfaro. At the same time some 500 kilometres inland, terrified

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 1 Feb 2008

Ecuador: protest and power

Rafael Correa's emphatic victory in Ecuador's presidential election run-off on 26 November 2006 appears to have given the region's radical leftist alliance - led

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 28 Nov 2006

Ecuadors election surprise

The surprise result of Ecuador's first-round presidential election on 15 October 2006 means that a pro-United States multi-millionaire capitalist will compete in the run-off with his political opposite

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 16 Oct 2006

Ecuadors energy-fuelled politics

When Ecuador's government announced on 15 May 2006 that it was expelling United States oil firm Occidental Petroleum from the country for allegedly violating the terms of its

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 27 Jun 2006

Losing Ecuador

The new president of Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio, has called for the country to undergo a profound soul-searching in the wake of the political crisis which saw his predecessor, Lucio Gutiérrez,

By Guy Hedgecoe

/ 25 Apr 2005