Overview
- His career spanned clandestine anti-Franco activism, PCE militancy and a 1968 exile to Paris before he turned fully to journalism in the mid-1970s.
- He authored influential works including El precio de la Transición, El maestro en el erial, El cura y los mandarines, and two Adolfo Suárez biographies (1979, 2009).
- He penned the weekly Sabatinas intempestivas in La Vanguardia from 1988 to 2017, forging a reputation for independence and rigor.
- He left La Vanguardia after a 2017 controversy and continued writing for outlets such as Crónica Global, Vozpópuli and The Objective.
- His final column ran on Feb. 7, 2026 at The Objective, and no cause of death has been reported.