Nidos de piratas

Nido de piratas is a story of the newspaper Pueblo, which begins in 1964, when the newspaper of the vertical unions moved to number 73 on Calle de las Huertas in Madrid. Under the direction of Emilio Romero, and with a circulation of more than two hundred thousand copies, it is at the peak of success. Between whiskeys, poker games and a cloud of black tobacco smoke, the unmistakable click of the Olivettis keys can be heard. There are dozens of reporters and photographers fighting over exclusives. And they are ready for anything. This is how many of those who passed through it remember it in this book. From Arturo Pérez-Reverte to Rosa Villacastín, Carmen Rigalt, Raúl del Pozo, Julia Navarro (and her father, Felipe Navarro, Yale) or Andrés Aberasturi. But also others -lawyers, priests, photographers, hairdressers, etc.-, direct witnesses of that wild and exciting way of doing journalism. Pueblo, mortally wounded after Romero's departure, reacted late to Tejero's coup, and suffered a severe downsizing and millions in losses. That ocean liner in the process of being scrapped sinks irretrievably. That part of the story, unfortunately, does not seem so foreign. Its doors closed permanently in 1984, when the Government of Felipe González finished executing Suárez's plan to end the public press. And, with it, a unique, voracious and fast-paced way of understanding the trade disappears.