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Spain Papers Review - Friday August 29 2008
By h.b. - Aug 29, 2008 - 11:05 AM
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El Mundo has a photo in later editions of Obama with his running mate, Joe Biden, and the quote ‘Let nobody say that we do not know how to defend this country’.
El País has a similar photo and says that Obama has launched himself to conquer the Unites States people. The paper considers it will be a long and hard journey to convince the people that the dream he speaks of is achievable, and will catapult the nation into a new era.
Público headlines that Obama wants to be Kennedy, the candidate for change.
El País notes that the European Union is considering sanctions against Russia because of the crisis in Georgia. The paper says that Moscow has stepped up the tension by carrying out a long-range missile test.
El Mundo leads today on the decision by a judge to give a week’s prison pass to Emilio Rodríguez Menéndez, an ex lawyer serving time for tax evasion. The paper says the magistrate, Javier San Claudio Piñón, said that he thought the prisoner would return to jail voluntarily, something which in fact did not happen. He granted the permission for ‘family reasons’, and El Mundo notes that his successive and in some cases simultaneous wives have served for him to make his escape.
El Mundo notes that there has been a tragic mix up in the identification of bodies from the Madrid plane crash and two families have cremated remains which were not their own.
Meanwhile El País reports that pilot fatigue has been ruled out by investigators.
ABC tells us that after the first failed take off attempt the MD-82 plane refilled with fuel with its anti-collision lights switched on, against Civil Aviation regulations. A pilot who was travelling in the plane noted that something was amiss, says the paper.
El Mundo reports that the Minister for Tax and the Economy, Pedro Solbes, has promised the autonomous regions more money, while the deficit is spiralling. The paper says all the political groups apart from the Socialists reject the idea, and says the state was in the red to July by 9.965 billion, or 0.9% of GDP.
El País says that Solbes has moved against the financing plan wanted by Cataluña and has warned in Congress that if there is no agreement the ‘state will apply its criteria’.
El País notes that the crisis has doubled the state deficit, while inflation at least has taken a breather and is now at 4.9% thanks to the fall in petrol prices.
ABC leads with the deficit and says that the crisis and the 400 € payment to taxpayers has opened up a black hole of 10 billion in July, close to 1% of GDP. The paper says that meanwhile property sales are in free fall.
The wife of recently released ETA activist, De Juana Chaos, has complained that she and her husband have been subjected to an ‘authentic lynching’ by the El Mundo newspaper, which prints her claim on its front page today.
Continuing in its series to mark 30 years of Spanish democracy, El Mundo interviews Julio Anguita, ex leader of the left wing coalition I.U. He tells the paper of traitors in his own group and says that at one time of the eight leaders, five of them wanted to block the left wingers’ project.
El País tells us that the Government is planning to give incentives for private investment in the universities. Minister Cristina Garmendia has said that private investment is the only way that universities will have enough money, and that tax breaks are planned. In Spain only 4% of university funding comes in this way, compared to 30% in the United States.
And finally,
Público reveals that National Court Judge Baltasar Garzón could order the civil war grave of poet Federico García Lorca to be opened so DNA testing can be carried out.
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