The peasants do the real work -- The Rodríguezes of Gundiás -- The Barreiroses of Sabadelle -- "¡Guagua, guagua!" -- Give to him who asks -- A clear, bright town -- The Spanish catastrophe -- People lived for politics -- There came forth from the soil armed men -- Red beret -- This cruel...

When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious...