Badajoz

And he found that the practice opened a door in him.

the early accounts speak of tears that came unbidden a sweetness that overwhelmed him at the mass and a kind of burning in the chest during meditation on the sufferings of christ we must be honest that these descriptions come from devout men writing after his death and they speak in the language of their age but the details are consistent and peter himself years later would write about this prayer with the quiet confidence of a man who had lived it the little friary could not hold him for long his superiors recognized a rare combination in the young friar ferocious discipline and a gift for leadership When the province decided to found a new house at Badajoz, a city on the Portuguese frontier, it sent Peter among the brothers who established it, and he was soon entrusted with the office of guardian, the superior of the community.

He was barely out of his teens.

Imagine being a young man in charge of older friars, many of whom had been in the order longer than he had been alive.

There is no doubt that, had they not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the Hollow Road, the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the victory.

This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen Talavera and Badajoz.

Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired heroically.

He said in an undertone, Sublime.

There's no airport like in...

Like, there's one in Badajoz, but it's very much a regional one.

You know, you have to travel to Seville or to Madrid to be able to sort of get on a flight anywhere.

So it, it just felt like how Spain should be to me and how I'd always remembered Spain to be and there's obviously it's changed over the years and many, you know, there's probably a lot of places still like Extremadura, but I haven't felt many.

Alguien ha dicho que Cristóbal Colón ha sido el hombre más importante de la historia después de Jesucristo.

¿Es cierto eso? Llamamos ayer a Badajoz a Esteban Mira Caballos, catedrático de la Universidad de Extremadura y autor de la reciente biografía Colón: el converso que cambió el mundo.

mundo.Efectivamente, esa frase la pronunció un famoso cronista del siglo XVI, el soriano Francisco López de Gómara, ¿no? Que su-- en su Historia general de las Indias, publicada en 1552, dijo que el descubrimiento de América fue la mayor cosa después de la creación del mundo, sacando la encarnación y muerte del que lo crió.

Eh, efectivamente, es una frase cierta.

Viedma.El grupo estaba coordinado por la célebre Leire Díaz, que fue detenida en diciembre y atacaba a jueces que criticaran al PSOE.

Hace meses, la jueza Biedma, que trabajaba en Badajoz, en Extremadura, se dio cuenta de algo raro, según David Vigario del diario El Mundo de Madrid.

Los vecinos pues ya transmitieron, eh, que había personas, eh, que estaban preguntando por sus hobbies, etcétera, etcétera.

Eh, hay fotos también de-- en, e imágenes en el parque de las niñas, no solo en el acceso al colegio.

And you know what happened to the others that were in the van with you? Yes.

Guardia del Rey fled to Portugal and then was in Badajoz as head of the militia.

Right now, he's a lieutenant in Barcelona.

I was told that the hitman was killed and justice was served on his part.

That is kind of, um, it's kind of like he saw that whenever he tried, whenever he tried to concede to, uh, aid or to collaborate with the government, someone would put a roadblock in front of him.

I, I-- It's the impression that he gives me that no matter what he proposed, even if it was good or maybe others considered misguided or something like that, he saw that there was always someone out to, uh, prevent him from achieving his goals, and it's probably a good part of what drove him towards, uh, being more radical in general.

And I think, uh, we can wrap this up by, um, quoting from his 1933 speech, in his infamous November 1933 speech, uh, in Badajoz, where, uh, y- this is...

Remember, this is in the campaign season.

They left slaughter behind them.

In the city of Badajoz, the walls were breached, and the surviving Republican soldiers herded into the city's bullfighting arena, where machine guns waited by the gate.

The American journalist Jay Allen counted the dead.

At least one thousand eight hundred had been killed in the massacre.

When the nationalist press service denied the massacre, one of Franco's commanders, Colonel Yagüe, laughed at their denials.

"Of course, we shot them.

Was I supposed to turn them loose in my rear and let them make Badajoz red again?" Their orders had been to spread terror and eliminate, without scruple, everyone who thinks differently to them.

And so the workers held Barcelona and Madrid.

For 19 seconds, nothing more.

Then, near Badajoz, in the southwest, a second group of plants reads a voltage above ITS limit and lets go, twice as much as before.

One second later, plants in five provinces at once.

The lead investigator called this moment...