Carlos Dada

Part I: Sarajevo After the Battle Gavrilo Princip’s footprints have disappeared from the bridge where he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The memorial was destroyed less than a decade ago, under orders of Radovan Karadzic, by the Bosnian Serbs who considered it a public accusation against one of their own. In the act of removing it, the Serbs left their own indelible, monstrous, and much more accusatory mark: the devastation of an entire city.

Carlos Dada giving this year’s Reuters Memorial Lecture. A few days ago, in a series of media interviews in Madrid, the vice president of El Salvador, Félix Ulloa, said that his government has never negotiated or made any pacts with criminal organisations. He was lying. He said the decree of a state of emergency, called the Exception Regime, only applies to gang members; that human rights are not being violated in El Salvador’s prisons.

El gol que anotó Andrés Iniesta contra el Chelsea F.C. en las semifinales de la Champions League de 2009 llegó al minuto 92, cuando el FC Barcelona parecía ya eliminado, y lo clasificó a la final. Para millones de latinoamericanos, ese gol es inseparable de una narración hecha por una de las voces más reconocidas de América Latina en las últimas dos décadas: Fernando Palomo.