Spain Papers Review - Tuesday November 18 2008

Spain Papers Review - Tuesday November 18 2008
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By h.b. - Nov 18, 2008 - 9:48 AM

Today's Público front page

The arrest in France yesterday of the ETA military chief, 'Txeroki', dominates all the front pages in Spain this morning.

El Mundo leads with the headline that it was the United States espionage which led to the email for ‘Txeroki’ and hence to his arrest. The Spanish Secret Service, CNI, gave the Guardia Civil the information and they found him via an ‘impossible’ car number plate.
El Mundo has a photo of French police arresting the terrorist. He is shown being bundled into a car wrapped in a carpet.
El Páis also has the terrorist in a carpet photo and says that ETA has lost their bloodiest chief who has killed several times. The paper says that the Ministry for the Interior has broken up the logistical, political, and military parts of the terrorist group over the past 16 months.
The successor as ETA’s military chief is named by El Mundo as Aitzol Iriondo, who comes from the band’s hard wing and has a reputation for demanding the command units of the terrorist group to carry out attacks.
Público says that the ETA terrorist who ended the cease fire has now been captured.
ABC has photos of him in the carpet and his girlfriend, another ETA activist, Leire López Zurutuza, in the Cauderets police station.
La Vanguardia considers that the fall of Txeroki has left the terrorist gang even more divided.

As well as now being on bail in Belfast, ETA ex-activist José Ignacio de Juana Chaos has, according to El Mundo, also applied for supplementary benefit from the authorities there, although he paid the 5000 pounds bail fast enough yesterday.

El Mundo reveals that the Minister for Employment, Celestino Corbacho, has carried out a U turn and now will approve the wishes of Telefónica who want to give early retirement to their workers aged over 48. 500 workers will go.

El Mundo notes that the falls on the stock markets continued round the world yesterday, despite the Washington economic summit held over the weekend.
El País highlights the 50,000 jobs that are to go at Citigroup bank, and notes that this comes after an earlier round of 23,000 losses.
El País also notes that Japan has now joined the list of countries in recession.
ABC notes that spending on new infrastructure is the key part of the Spanish government’s plan to face the crisis. The paper says that some industries are to be liberalised, company taxes are to be reduced and the amount of money held back in the wage slip is to be reduced.

El Mundo notes that the mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, while saying nothing in public, has ordered the closure of the ‘Balcón de Rosales’ disco in the city.
It follows the allegation that an 18 year old was beaten to death outside the club by three doormen. El Mundo has a quote from the parents of the main accused – they say that their son did not touch the man, who was a toff and violent.
Público notes that the closure order for the club has arrived too late for the 18 year old victim.

And finally.
El País notes that pirates have captured one of the largest petrol tankers in the world – 330 metres long. The paper says the Somalians boarded the Saudi vessel more than 800 kms off the coast of Kenya.

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