One of the major polls shows Pablo Iglesias of Podemos could become the next Prime Minister of Spain, says Becquer Seguin Story Transcript SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. We’re in conversation with Bécquer SeguÃn. He is a Mellon Sawyer Seminar […]
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Becquer Seguin is an Andrew W. Mellon and John E. Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is currently finishing a dissertation on how political tactics like the general strike shaped literature and art on both sides of the nineteenth-century Hispanic Atlantic. His academic writing has studied such diverse figures as the surrealist Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel and the Cuban national poet and revolutionary Jose Marti. In addition to his academic work, he writes on contemporary Spanish politics for magazines such as The Nation, Dissent, and Jacobin.
