Spain's allies can hardly understand that here the tasks of the secret services are discussed in every bar on the corner, that they are, specifically, shared with those who are spied on and that they are bargaining chips to agree on parliamentary majorities.

Even the most benevolent with the Hispanic political class, the good people who indulgently overlook the manifest mediocrity of so many high positions, whether elected or appointed by hand, raise their hands to their heads when one, or one, of the herd tells