The political explosion in New York these days reminds me of what I experienced in Athens ten years ago.
“First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.” Leonard Cohen's song was played in January 2015 in Omonia Square in Athens at the close of the campaign that brought Alexis Tsipras to the government of Greece. And there I was, in one of the first international coverages that we did at elDiario.es, which had just turned two and a half years old. And various European leaders were also there to support the new leader of the European left, among them a newly elected MEP Pablo Iglesias, who took the stage with the leader of Syriza.