Hasta aquí hemos llegado

Rodrigo de Rato's trajectory was parallel to that of the Spanish economy itself. He rose with it to the top, including the entry of Spain into the euro, and fell shaken by the global crisis that broke out in the late 2000s, which threatened the survival of the single currency and transformed the financial system. world and spanish He went from being one of the most admired and respected figures in the world economy, to having to deal with a media, judicial and political storm in which strategies to deal with the financial crisis were mixed with business interests and all under the background of the consequences of the succession of José María Aznar. This book is a first-person account of those years, a thoughtful reflection on some events that it sheds light on, while at the same time investigating the forces and maneuvers that were unleashed far from the focus, many of them with names and surnames. It also delves into the path that a person travels when facing a radical change in their circumstances, doing so in the midst of maximum public exposure and discovering, after more than thirty years integrated in the circles of power, the other side of the mirror of the State. Through its pages appear essential figures of those years -Luis de Guindos, Francisco González, Esperanza Aguirre, Mariano Rajoy- and places us at the epicenter of what was one of the greatest political earthquakes in recent Spanish history.