José Antonio Bautista García

Madrid

Investigative Journalist at Freelance

MOVED TO BlueSky @josebautista.bsky.social / Periodista de pueblo que habla idiomas • Investig. journalism • @porCausaorg,@NYTimes, @derspiegel et al • Migrante

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Hombres armados matan a un expolítico ucraniano en España

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maria Varenikova |José Antonio Bautista García

Unos hombres armados mataron el miércoles por la mañana a un colaborador de alto rango del expresidente ucraniano Víktor Yanukóvich a la salida de una escuela en un municipio a las afueras de Madrid, según las autoridades españolas y la prensa local. El Ministerio del Interior español dijo que los agentes de policía habían respondido a una llamada de emergencia cerca de las 9:15 a. m. sobre una persona con heridas de bala en la localidad de Pozuelo de Alarcón.
Qué causó el apagón en España y Portugal

1 month ago | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |Jenny Gross |John Yoon

Los altos funcionarios de ambos países intentaban determinar la causa de un apagón que dejó sin electricidad a decenas de millones de personas en toda la península ibérica.
Spain Searches for Answers on What Caused Power Blackout

1 month ago | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |John Yoon

Spain's top security and defense officials were meeting on Wednesday morning to discuss the blackout on the Iberian Peninsula this week, which halted critical infrastructure for up to 18 hours in some areas. The authorities in Spain and Portugal are under pressure to figure out what caused the power grid to shut down. The Spanish government has asked European regulators and various domestic agencies to investigate what happened.
Power Outage in Spain and Portugal Creates a Day of Confusion

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Wolfe |José Antonio Bautista García

Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 hours of the "insanity."Rocio Vilaplana, a dentist in southeastern Spain, was closing a suture in a patient's mouth during oral surgery early Monday afternoon when the lights went out. "Everything started beeping," Ms. Vilaplana said. Her backup generator kicked in, the emergency lights in her surgery room flickered on and the 36-year-old dentist tried to remain calm.
España y Portugal vuelven a ver la luz tras el apagón generalizado

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Catherine Porter |José Antonio Bautista García |Amelia Nierenberg

Volvió la electricidad a la mayor parte de los dos países tras un lapso sin suministro que interrumpió gran parte de la vida cotidiana. La causa se sigue investigando. Residents of a neighborhood plunged largely into darkness by a widespread electricity blackout celebrated on Monday evening as the lights turned back on. After the nearly 18-hour outage, the power was back in most of Spain and Portugal, but the cause remained unclear. Credit Credit...
Trump Live Updates

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Lynsey Chutel |José Antonio Bautista García

In his first term, President Trump toyed with ousting Jerome H. Powell out of anger that the Federal Reserve chair was moving too slowly to cut interest rates. Mr. Trump refrained from doing so, but continued to publicly attack Mr. Powell and his colleagues for keeping borrowing costs too high. The Fed ultimately did cut rates but not because of Mr. Trump's jawboning.
Ejecutivo espa├▒ol de Siemens y su familia mueren en el accidente de helic├│ptero

1 month ago | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |Lynsey Chutel

Escobar dirigía la división de infraestructuras ferroviarias de Siemens desde la oficina de la empresa en Berlín, anunció la empresa. Antes de asumir su cargo actual en octubre, Escobar era director general de Siemens España. Anteriormente trabajó para el gigante tecnológico en Estados Unidos y Brasil, según su perfil de LinkedIn.Siemens transmitió en un comunicado que estaban "profundamente entristecidos" por las muertes.
Siemens Executive and His Family Died in Hudson Helicopter Crash

1 month ago | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |Lynsey Chutel
Luis Rubiales, expresidente del fútbol español, es condenado por agresión sexual

Feb 20, 2025 | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |Lynsey Chutel

Luis Rubiales, expresidente de la Real Federación Española de fútbol, fue declarado culpable el jueves de agresión sexual por besar a la fuerza en los labios a una integrante de la selección nacional femenina después de que el equipo ganara la Copa del Mundo Femenina 2023.
Luis Rubiales, Spain's Former Soccer Chief, Convicted

Feb 20, 2025 | nytimes.com | José Antonio Bautista García |Lynsey Chutel

By Luis Rubiales, the former head of the Spanish soccer federation, was convicted on Thursday of sexual assault for forcibly kissing a member of the women's national team on the lips after winning the 2023 Women's World Cup. Mr. Rubiales's kiss of the player, Jennifer Hermoso, set off a national scandal, deepened debates about longstanding sexism in Spanish soccer and became a watershed moment in Spain's #MeToo movement. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.