Eduardo Haro Tecglen (born Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, June 30, 1924 – died Madrid, October 19, 2005) was a Spanish journalist and essayist. He was the son of Eduardo Haro Delage, a retired mariner, comedy writer and journalist, who was sentenced to death in retaliation after the Spanish Civil War ended. The death sentence was commuted to thirty years in prison thanks to his son’s request for a pardon. Eduardo Haro studied at the Official School of Journalism, from which he graduated in 1943. He was a contributor, editor and correspondent for different media and news agencies, including the Efe agency. During the last years of his life, he wrote the column “Visto/Oido” in the El País newspaper and a blog, and maintained the daily “Barra libre” section in the programme La Ventana on the Cadena SER radio network. He used the pseudonyms Pozuelo, Juan Aldebarán and Pablo Berbén. He wrote more than 25,000 articles, as well as autobiographical books, such as The Republican Child (1996), Son of the Century (1998) and El Refugio (1999), in which he offers a rather disenchanted view from the point of view of a decidedly Marxist left-wing.
He is considered an obstinate pessimist in detecting the injustices on which our world and our civilisation are sustained, in contrast to the optimism that his achievements essentially value. His plot lines attempt to turn the individual into a person and the people into a conscious people (with a conscience), connecting with the free-thinking and libertarian ideal of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His theses are based on the power of the conscience to dissolve instincts, feelings, revolutions (even the bloodiest) and history, which, together with an update and revision of the past, allow us to extract possibilities and project new shared worlds, in the face of destruction, oblivion or petrification and the consecration of thought.