The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 11, 2016 Spanish Journalist & Author Ignacio Carrión Dies ------------------------------------------------ And writer and journalist Ignacio Carrión died on Saturday from lung cancer. Born in Spain in 1938, Carrión worked as a journalist for more than 45 years, including in London, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for El País and other outlets. He was also the author of more than a half-dozen books. Carrión was the father of former Democracy Now! producer María Carrión. .