Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Tuesday September 2 2008
By h.b. - Sep 2, 2008 - 9:33 AM
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El País, and all the Spanish papers today, leads with the news that National Court judge Baltasar Garzón has opened what it calls the largest investigation into the people who disappeared during the Civil War. The judge is asking for data of the mass graves from the parishes and from the Mayors of Madrid, Sevilla, Granada and Córdoba.
El Mundo describes the judge’s move as a general cause to persecute Francoist crimes, and says he is centring his attention on those who vanished after July 17 1936.
ABC says that Garzón is asking for data from 22,800 parishes and wants to create a census of victims.
Público also leads with the story and says that Garzón is looking for Franco’s disappeared.
In international stories, El País, like many of the papers has a front page photo of the waters crossing the levees in New Orleans as hurricane Gustav made land fall yesterday. The paper says that New Orleans has resisted and it was the coast of Louisiana which has suffered the most.
El Mundo has a photo on its front page of a man enjoying what they call a Hurricane Cocktail in Bourbon Street. ABC has the same photo.
Interesting to see such coverage of that in Spain, while the three million people who are now homeless because of the flooding in India is scarcely mentioned.
El País tells us that the Taliban are tightening their grip on the Afghan capital Kabul. The paper says that bloody Islamic attacks are terrorising the city.
El País informs us that the EU protests or punishment for Russia over the events in Georgia has ended up just as a warning. El Mundo says that the EU has called on Russia to remove troops from Georgia and respect the peace.
Back in Spain El País says the Madrid region is ignoring the legislation and moving ahead with its own plans and content for citizenship classes in schools in the region, governed by the PP.
El País tells us that despite the new Plan Vive designed to stimulate new car sales, numbers collapsed by 41% in August, and profits for the car companies fell for the first time since 2004.
El Mundo notes that the Prime Minister has asked to appear before Congress to explain the current economic situation, and that he does so in the face of an avalanche of very bad economic data. That comment made before the release today of bad unemployment numbers for August.
And finally,
Plenty of coverage of the move of Robinho from Real Madrid, not to Chelsea as the player had wished, but to the new rich Manchester City. The price 40 million €, a British record, and El Mundo says paid in cash.
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