Almost one million euros to celebrate “hispanidad” without indigenous people
A few hours after the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, claimed in the United States the “Hispanic” attacking the “indigenism that has taken over several Latin American countries”, Toni Cantó and Marta Rivera de la Cruz have presented to the media a cultural program that celebrates “a legacy that we are …
The Kaiser, the Nazis, the guiris… and other theories why a beautiful cove in Cádiz is called ‘Playa de los Alemanes’ (Beach of the Germans)
The coastline of Cadiz is one of the most international that surrounds the Iberian Peninsula. The Beni de Cádiz repeated it like this: “To the south it borders Morocco, to the north with Spain, to the west with the USA [Rota base] and to the east with England [Gibraltar]”. Among its treasures is the beach …
An inspection reveals that a private residence in Donostia had the elderly 14 hours without eating
An inspection report dated September 17 reveals that the residence Txara I of Donostia, a public building that is managed under concession by the private company Biharko Gipuzkoa, fails to meet the minimum ratios of doctors, nurses, monitors, physiotherapists and psychologists. It has also been discovered that up to 14 hours can pass between dinner …
Aguirre’s Brother-In-Law Asks Judge To Remove Judge From Goya Case, Files Complaint With Judicial Branch
It has been 14 months since Íñigo Ramírez de Haro complained against his brother Fernando and his wife, Esperanza Aguirre, for the inheritance of his father and the sale of the portrait of Goya that was owned by the family, until in 2012 it was transferred to the businessman Juan Miguel Villar Mir for more …
Health considers the COVID emergency over and urges the communities to rebuild Primary Care
Beyond what the daily data show, Spain is beginning to make gestures that demonstrate that the country is leaving the pandemic for good. This week, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, is bringing together in person all the health ministers of the autonomous communities. She has called them to a two-day meeting in the Canary …
The extreme right and its related media clash over vaccines: “the Bebelejías” against “Pfizerico”.
“¿Usted se ha vacunado?”. “No voy a contestar a esa pregunta”, replicó Santiago Abascal, algo incómodo. “Yo me niego a declarar sobre un asunto de salud en público”, apostilló. Y ahí se desató la caja de los truenos. Ocurrió el 17 de septiembre en ‘Las Mañanas de Federico’, el programa de Jiménez Losantos, un espacio …
The negotiation of the Budget enters the key phase with differences between the partners on the limits to the rent.
The housing law, one of the main sources of tension between PSOE and United We can, is unresolved when the negotiation of budgets enters its final stretch. The limitation of rental prices in stressed areas is one of the “stumbling blocks” that admit the two factions of the coalition that are preventing to close a …
Las Cruces, the copper mine that broke profit records while depleting an aquifer
Four million in fines – effective and pending – in exchange for more than 590 million in profits. The mining company Cobre Las Cruces received last Tuesday the second sanction of the Council of Ministers for staying groundwater illegally in its mining operation in Seville. Both fines punish irregular “detractions” between 2014 and 2018, while …
The far-right is no longer Germany’s main opposition party: how it has lost its strength
After its whirlwind entry into the German parliament in 2017, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland [Alternative for Germany, AfD] has lost its status as the main opposition force in Sunday’s elections, although it is still holding its own as the strongest party in some parts of eastern Germany. What now: questions and answers on the …
PODCAST: Social Democracy Wasn’t Dead
With the victory in Germany, social democracy scores another country recovered in the last decade. The new left is key, the liberals are asserting themselves, but the conservatives are not governing in any of the founding countries of the European Union. We talk about it with Icíar Gutiérrez, who has followed the elections in Germany, …