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Dan Hancox

Dan Hancox is the author of "Utopia and the Valley of Tears." You can find him on Twitter @danhancox.

Masked demonstrators, employees from the Telefonica phone company, protest on a street near a building where executives from the same company are participating in a business meeting in Barcelona, Spain (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain dances with chaos

Dan Hancox