Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Tuesday August 5 2008
By h.b. - Aug 5, 2008 - 11:21 AM
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(Apologies for lack of a press review yesterday)
El Mundo leads with the headline that the prosecutor has called for the release of the prisoner who served to link Al Qaeda to March 11. It seems the conspiracy theory about the Madrid train bombings will just not go away from El Mundo.
The paper says that Moutaz Almallah had been extradited from London after a police report linked him to the personal link to Bin Laden in Europe.
El Mundo notes the latest unemployment data, at more than 2.4 million after, as the paper puts it, the worst July in history. The paper says the numbers registered at INEM offices rose by 36,492 over the month.
El País leads with the numbers and headlines that the crisis has provoked the largest increase in July unemployment in decades. The paper says the regions linked to construction are those worst affected.
ABC also leads with the numbers and says that more than 1,200 people have lost their jobs in the last year. It says unemployment is up 23.1% over the year and there are nearly 2.5 million out of work, the highest number since 1998. The paper says confidence continues to fall to an all time low.
El País has a front page photo of a soldier on the streets of Rome.
The paper reports that nearly 200 soldiers are in the city, with 3,000 in the nine largest cities, as part of the new security plan from Silvio Berlusconi.
El Mundo has a photo of the top Spanish basket ball player, Pau Gasol. The caption reads Gasol and the pride of being Spanish. He tells the paper that it is good that your country admires you, but it is much better if the world admires your country.
El Mundo also notes that a biologist has complained in Nature magazine that ‘a third of Spain cannot study in Castellano’, as the paper continues its language campaign.
ABC notes that ERC Catalan republican deputy, Joan Puig, has called the people of Extremadura ‘rotten’ in his blog.
El País reports that the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is leaving any changes in the abortion law to the political parties. Reform was passed in the last Socialist party congress, and a sub-parliamentary commission looks set to be created.
El Mundo notes that the National Court is investigating whether the released ETA terrorist, José Ignacio de Juana Chaos, extolled terrorism in a speech last Saturday which was said to have been written by him.
ABC also gives the story front page space today.
El País says that the judge has already seen indications that De Juana could be sent back to jail, and notes that the PP has dismissed life imprisonment as it is unconstitutional.
El País looks ahead to the Olympics and notes that it is prohibited to speak about politics in Beijing. The International Olympic Committee has advised the athletes that they cannot make statements. The paper notes that 16 Chinese police have been killed in an attack in the west of the country, just four days ahead of the games.
Público says the terrorist attack has put China on alert, and leads with the story.
ABC has an entertaining front page photo of two Chinese policemen wearing white glove, try to stop photographs being taken in Tiananmen Square. The paper says most of the Spanish team is now in Beijing, led by Rafa Nadal.
Staying with things Chinese, El País features that Damon Albarn from the rock group Blur, has created an opera in Mandarin based on a Chinese legend.
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