José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, President of Spain, has dissolved the Spanish Parliament and called elections for March 9th. Zapatero with the PSOE party, and Mariano Rajoy with the PP (Partido Popular–a descendent of Franco’s fascist party) are expected to be locked into a close race for the presidency. The International Herald Tribune has the story […]
An unprecedented exchange between the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I de Borb??n, took place during the closing ceremonies of the 17th Iberoamerican Summit (XVII Cumbre Iberoamericana). As the current president of Spain, Rodr??guez Zapatero, was responding to some earlier charges on the part of Chavez, Chavez continually […]
According to El Pa??s, a recent study by the University of Hertferdshire claims that residents of Madrid are among the world’s fastest walkers, taking on average only 10.9 seconds to walk 60 feet. Only Singapore and Copenhagen have faster walkers.
Counter-intuitively, the study showed that the otherwise healthy aspects of walking is accompanied by an increase […]
The leading Spanish Daily newspaper, El PaÃs turns 30 years old today. Established shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship, El PaÃs was one of the very early papers in Spain able to exercise editorial freedom from the government without fear of reprisal or shutdown.
Here, a regular poltical cartoonist from El PaÃs, Máximo, pays […]
The President of Spain, Jos?© Luis Rodr??guez Zapatero, today announced that he believes the ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) cease fire (alto el fuego) announced on March 22 is real and permanent:
?ÄúEl alto el fuego cubre todos los aspectos, es real?Äù
According to Zapatero, if the cease fire lasts through the remainder of the spring, […]