Despite being a magistrate with a brilliant career, when he was just a Law student at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated two years after the assassinations of the Atocha labor lawyers, Carlos Gómez (Madrid, 1957) did not know that he would end up dedicating his life to the judiciary. “I hadn't even considered it, because Franco was still alive and at that time being a judge meant being part of a repressive body”, explains the president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands.

The construction of a major highway deep in the Amazon rainforestThe fact that it crossed a protected area has sparked international controversy due to its alleged connection with the UN summit against climate change This year's COP30, being held in Brazil. Regional authorities responsible for the project claim it has nothing to do with COP30, but the fact is that the highway under construction—which has deforested a 13-kilometer-long strip of land—will carry a good portion of the 50,000 summit participants to the host city, Belém do Pará.