http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren Noticias y comentarios del mundo hispano Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:59:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en José Luis Rodríguez 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 ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2008/spanish-elections/ 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 ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2007/hugo-chavez-and-el-rey-juan-carlos/ 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 ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2007/the-results-are-in-madrilenos-are-faster-than-new-yorkers/ Pinochet, the military dictator who ruled Chile with a bloody and iron fist from 1973 to 1990, and who then had himself named Senator for Life, has died. Implicated in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians during his bloody regime, Pinochet died at 2:15 pm today (Chilean time) from ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/%c2%a1muere-pinochet/ The leading Spanish Daily newspaper, El País turns 30 years old today. Established shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship, El País 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 ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/el-pais-turns-30/ The Venezuelan government has begun a national disarmament plan in which they pay ?Ǩ205 (euros) for each automatic pistol turned in to government, and ?Ǩ123 for each revolver. The funds will be paid by the Venezuelan Economic and Social Development Bank. Guns lacking identification, or which have been identified as having ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/venezuela-cash-for-guns-disarmament/ 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 ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/zapatero-announces-possible-talks-with-eta/ The editorial cartoonist for El Pa??s, Romeu, regularly comments on global economic affairs. Today's is very thought provoking: The radical Islamic straw in the eye of the foreigner doesn't allow him to see the radical capitalist in himself ...but it's still felt! http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/romeu-15-march-2006/ The parent company which owns El Pa??s, Prisacom, has launched a series of blogs written by various of the El Pa??s correspondents. I have found two of them of particular interest (and they are now linked in the "Blogs I read" section of the sidebar). Javier del Pino is an El ... http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/two-blogs-of-interest-in-spanish/ American Friends Service Committee http://fhuhs.org/staff/herren/2006/no-need-to-say-more/