Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Monday July 28 2008
By h.b. - Jul 28, 2008 - 9:38 AM
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El Mundo leads with the ETA terrorist José Ignacio De Juana Chaos who is about to be released from prison after serving time for killing some 20 people in the name of the Basque terrorists. The paper says that he is being released now thanks to documents which he faked about university qualifications for courses which he claims he studied at a distance. The paper gives an example that he claimed to have a nursing qualification, but presented papers in the name of his sister. The paper prints one of the documents which it claims has been faked to ensure an earlier release, the paper claims by ‘hundreds of days’.
El País has a different ETA story and says that the ex Spokesman of Batasuna, ETA’s outlawed political wing, Arnaldo Ortegi, will leave his position of leadership when he comes out of jail. The paper reports that he has ideological differences with the strategy and latest attacks by ETA.
ABC notes that ETA was planning a wave of attacks in Andalucía.
El Mundo continues with its campaign to defend Castellano and says today that 88% are calling for a law which guarantees the language can be studied in all the country.
ABC leads with the reforms to the Constitutional Court and says that the Government will accept that the Partido Popular proposes the substitute for García-Calvo in the court.
El País notes that the Prime Minister is looking for support for the approval of the state budget. Zapatero meets today with representatives from all the parliamentary groups to try and get the 2009 budget moving ahead but the paper says that agreement is unlikely because of the demands of the nationalists in financing the regions and because of the economic crisis.
El País also notes that the ex Director of the Economic Office in the Moncloa, David Taguas, is mediating trying to save the Martinsa real estate company. The paper reports he is talking to banks and savings banks.
La Vanguardia reports that the economic crisis in Spain is hitting hardest in the areas which were previously growing the most.
The other Catalan paper, El Periódico, notes that the high risk of forest fires has been put off in the region until the end of August.
In international news, El Mundo notes that a double terrorist attack has left at least 15 dead and 140 injured in Istanbul.
El País puts the number of dead at 13 and says that the Turkish police are blaming Kurdish guerrillas.
El País reports that Raúl Castro has cut any hope of change in Cuba. The paper says that he has put all the reforms of the last few month on hold in his latest speech and called for austerity.
ABC tells us that the European Union is planning a network of clean energy between Europe and the Sahara. The paper says that installation of solar panels in the north of Africa could meet the demands of Europe.
Many papers have large coverage of the success in Paris yesterday for Carlos Sastre who becomes the third consecutive Spaniard to win the Tour de France. El Mundo notes he is the seventh Spaniard to win the world’s most famous cycling race and it comes thanks to his strength and obstinacy shown by him in the sport since his infancy. El Mundo quotes the rider saying he won the race with work, and nothing else.
El País has a large front page photo of the rider with his two young children, Claudia and Yeray. The paper says that he has conquered Paris in a magic year for Spanish sport.
ABC says it is a triumph for humility and also shows the rider with his children.
There is also wide coverage for Rafa Nadal who the papers note is now closer to being the world number one following his victory in Toronto.
El País has a two page feature today on how with more expensive petrol prices more of us are going back to using the train.
And finally,
El Mundo has the latest energy saving idea from the Ministry for Industry, Miguel Sebastian, the man who famously does not wear a tie in summer so that the air conditioning can be set at a higher temperature. He has now said that civil servants should be working at 26 degrees in the summer and 20 in the winter.
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