“The West will only take an interest in Afghanistan again if it sees our physical integrity in danger,” stressed ARA journalist Mònica Bernabé in a talk for subscribers at the Sala de les Sirenes in Barcelona's Hotel Espanya. Bernabé criticized “the cynicism and hypocrisy with which the international community acts in Afghanistan”.

Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, after the hasty withdrawal of international forces after twenty years, ARA journalist Mònica Bernabé has returned to a country she knows very well to explain firsthand and from within what the situation is like. The result is a series of reports that offer a snapshot of the Afghan reality, from the current construction boom – with funding from the Gulf and China – to the discrimination suffered by women and the general climate of repression that prevails there.