William Costa — Michael D. Yates (2024-12-13). On Rafael Barrett: A Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land. counterpunch.org Rafael Barrett was born in Torrelavega in northern Spain, close to the Bay of Biscay. Eldest of two sons, he grew up in a well-to-do, though not extremely wealthy, family and enjoyed the privileges that such families took for granted: travel, good education, social and cultural capital. For reasons made clear in William Costas's Introduction