‘A Francoist daydream’: how Spain’s right clings to its imperialist past

A Peruvian author fears her adopted home is far from an apology for its Latin American abuses

The Plaza Mayor, where tourists gather to drink steep beers and feast on overpriced paella, may be better known. So may Puerta del Sol, where locals ring in the new year by eating a grape on each of the 12 chimes.

But Madrid's Plaza de Colon, a 25-minute walk from these spaces, has come to play its own special part in the social, political and historical life of the capital - and the rest of Spain.