It is lunchtime, the August heat is intense, and Ayoub Darkaoui, a 16-year-old barber, lounges under an umbrella dressed in a green Real Madrid tracksuit. His group has…
A euphoric howl ran through the 48 rows of flight IB1473 at exactly 8:38 PM: “Wooooooow! How awesome! How awesoooooome!” There was no room…
The door number 10 of arrivals at T-4 of Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas Airport receives the early morning hours with total normality. Dozens of people wait…
Youssef -barefoot, shirtless, with salt and sweat stains on his face- walks in the opposite direction to the route he took two days ago. His journey, although it had moments of…
A whole load of laundry is waiting to be picked up from a white plastic clothesline placed under a porch of a tourist-use house located on Solanillo Street in La Adrada, at…
The first thing one notices when passing through the towns affected by the fires in Madrid is the silence. An absolute silence. The residents have not yet been able to return to their homes,…
Four days have passed since Villamanta received hundreds of evacuees who were caught off guard by a devastating fire that has already earned the sad distinction of being the most…
13 kilometers separate the municipalities of Cenicientos and Sotillo de la Adrada. In the former, the rumor is starting to spread that it won’t be long before they are evicted, while in the…
There are fires that are counted with figures. Burnt hectares, deployed resources, and evacuated or confined people. But there are also those fires that only…