

Marcel Gascón
Marcel Gascón Barberá is a Spanish national and freelance journalist who has written for several Spanish and international publications from Spain, Romania, South Africa and Venezuela.
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Remembering the ‘Forgotten Cemetery’
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Jan 27, 2022
Book review: So they remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine Maksim Goldenshteyn (2022) In June 1996, Florida resident Ruth Glasberg

Tribute to a Portuguese friend in Africa
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Aug 28, 2021
I began the (European) summer of 2018 working in Windhoek, where I helped out in a boarding house in exchange for accommodation. I arrived in

Spanish democracy under attack
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Apr 10, 2021
A danger to democracy in Spain was demonstrated this week when the country’s conservative party, Vox – the third largest in the national parliament –

‘Cancel culture’ in the time of Nicolae Ceausescu
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Apr 3, 2021
On 14 March I rented a car at the Intercontinental Hotel in central Bucharest and set off for Calarasi, a municipality of roughly 50 000 in

The Netflix Trials of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Jan 23, 2021
The other night I watched the Netflix documentary on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or, as he is widely known in the press, DSK. Room 28016: The Accusation

A Romanian Referee on the BLM Bonfire
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Jan 5, 2021
On December 9, 2019, French football side, PSG, hosted Turkey’s Basaksehir at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. It was the last matchday of

Reflections on the American vote
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Nov 17, 2020
The fact that you are reading this article means you don’t rely exclusively on the so-called mainstream media to get your news. The Daily Friend

The trouble with Mmusi’s letter
- By Marcel Gascón
- . Nov 3, 2020
I learnt of Mmusi Maimane’s letter to his white compatriots from the Daily Friend article, Mmusi Maimane and the illusion of race. From its very