Rarer than a Podemos voter in the most exclusive neighborhood in all of Spain, La Moraleja, on the outskirts of Madrid. Mansions between plots of 10,000 square meters in an urbanization where not only nobody knows anyone, nobody sees anyone between walls of desolate streets.
“It is not a place designed for walking, you can come across at most a security guard or a cleaning worker,” explains journalist Eva Lamarca. Thus it is very difficult, behind closed doors, to locate anyone. Detect who was the only voter of Podemos in the regional elections last year, even more so.
“It seemed like a suggestive mystery to us, a story to learn about,” adds Cádiz-born Álvaro de Cózar, a resident of the United States and creator of other podcasts alongside this Mystery of La Moraleja. Spotify premieres this podcast today. De Cózar launched the award-winning XReywhich leads this genre on the Spotify platform.
“We knew who to order those cold door visits in La Moraleja, who could investigate from scratch”, says Álvaro regarding his partner. Eva Lamarca has a long career in elite character journalism and many years of writing in Vanity Fair. “The story occurred to us reading an article in El País. It had narrative possibilities”, adds De Cózar.
The mystery in La Moraleja it is the path of the journalist linking clues and characters in search of that loose vote in the urbanization. Stories and doubts arise, misgivings and false leads. “You have to approach these people with a halo of mystery, of curiosity,” she explains. During the recordings she had some setbacks, but she has compensated for the direct link with the protagonists.
“I don’t control technology: people have played, however, they have been generous with us. They are going to accuse each other, in a game of lies and truths, they have given us their alibis, their cluelessness” says Lamarca about this experience.
Both creators emphasize that there is a lot of humor among the detective intrigue. The only voter of Podemos is an excuse to investigate and learn more about what exists in that expensive tree-lined bubble of La Moraleja and its inhospitable streets. “Iron has been removed. It could have been focused with controversy, but the part of humor is provided by them “reveals Lamarca.
“La Moraleja is not like Beverly Hills, where people go for mansion tourism. It is a place of impassable places. It is a very fun research exercise”, De Cozar and Lamarca explain in unison. In search of the strange voter.
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