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Eulogio López
During March and April of this year, as part
of the IV cycle of “Fridays at the Residen-
ce” conferences, FCC volunteers were
able listen to the speech by Eulogio López,
founder and director of the digital newspa-
per hispanidad.com. His conference titled
“Letter from Pope John Paul II to the el-
derly” and praised the fact that our elders
are playing an active and increasingly im-
portant role by performing volunteer work
to share their experience and knowledge,
also taking care of their families and joining
the paid workforce.
Eulogio has collaborated in several news-
papers, including La Nueva España (Ovie-
do), Gaceta del Norte (Pamplona), Heraldo
de Aragón (Zaragoza), YA (Sunday supple-
ment and book reviews) and ABC: He has
also written several books, including: “Cali-
fas del Dinero”; “Por qué soy cristiano and,
sin embargo, periodista”; “En defensa de
la Iglesia” and “Los años no mienten: Diez
años de socialismo en España”.
Amalia Gallego
Amalia Gallego visited the residence on
15 March and made a presentation on the
“Jewels in the Thyssen Museum Collection.
Amalia, who holds a History of Art degree
was accompanied by Iñi López de Sa, Mar-
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chioness of San Eduardo and by Miguel
Mas de San Eduardo, owners of Madrid’s
jewellery San Eduardo jewellery shop.
During the conference, she highlighted the
selection of masterpieces that are on per-
manent exhibit at the Thyssen Museum,
which include the jewels worn by the indi-
viduals portrayed in “A Portrait of Giovanna
Tornabuoni”, by Domenico Ghirlandaio and
the “Portrait of Henry VIII” by Hans Holbein
the Younger.
Antonio Gutiérrez Vergara
The economist Antonio Gutiérrez Verga-
ra visited the Collado Villalba home on 22
March and spoke on “Inequality as the ori-
gin of the crisis of capitalism”.
He currently works at Bankia and is well-
known for his involvement with the CC.OO.
trade union of which he was secretary ge-
neral from 1987 to 2000. He was also a
congressman from Madrid as an indepen-
dent in the Socialist Party candidacy and
chairman of the Economy and Treasury
Commission in Congress from March 2004
to November 2011.
Jorge Rivera
Another journalist, Jorge Rivera from the
financial newspaper “Cinco Días” closed
the FCC Volunteers conference cycle on
19 April and gave a speech entitled “Cinco
Días: past, present and future of financial
information”. He has been working at the
newspaper, firstly during an internship, and
in 2005 became its editor. Cinco Días, part
of the Spanish media group PRISA, was
founded in 1978 and is the oldest financial
newspaper in Spain.
Antonio Gutiérrez, economist,
during his conference.
Amalia Gallego, PHD in Art History.
José Manuel Velasco, general manager of Communications and SR at FCC
introduced Eulogio López, the founder and director of the digital newspaper
hispanidad.com.
Jorge Rivera, director of the financial newspaper “Cinco Días”.