Spain Papers Review - Monday December 1 2008
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By h.b. - Dec 1, 2008 - 9:54 AM
The two main papers go with exclusive stories today.

El Mundo leads with an interview the paper has had with the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. He tells the paper that the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouco, stopped him complaining to the Pope about the COPE radio station, which is owned by the Spanish Bishops. He was invited by the Cardinal to an audience with the Pope to show support for the World Youth Day being held in Madrid in 2011, and the Mayor said he told the Cardinal he would use the occasion to convey his disgust at the injurious and hateful broadcasting of the channel, but he could not do so as afterwards the Cardinal withdrew the initiation. Gallardón is among those to take legal action for slander against the COPE presenter Losantos, who has been found guilty of the charge on several occasions.

El País leads with more details of the revelation made in Sunday’s paper that the Aznar administration was fully informed of the CIA secret flights taking prisoners to Guantanamo bay using Spain as a stop-over. Today the paper says that Aznar looked for ‘discrete airports’ for the transfers which Spain accepted within 24 hours of being asked by the United States.
The paper notes that current Foreign Minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, has said that he was not informed by the P.P., and has opened an investigation.

ABC leads with the internal fighting in Basque terrorist group ETA. Hard liners in the gang have warned some ETA prisoners that there will be reprisals if they collaborate with the ‘Government manoeuvres’.

El Mundo reports that the Government is to allow an 8% increase in electricity prices in the first half of next year. The paper says the increase will be four times the rate of inflation.
Meanwhile El Mundo also reveals that the Endesa company has revealed that its charging dozens of thousands of clients in Cataluña too much.

ABC highlights comments from Gero Hütter, a haematologist from Berlin who beat Aids in a patient with a bone marrow transplant. He says on World Aids Day that we have managed to trick Aids, but we have not cured it.

El Mundo takes a look at the Sacyr construction company led by Del Rivero. He is the man most favoured by the Socialist government according to the paper, obtaining 44% of public works contracts.

Público leads with its latest Publiscopio opinion poll which it says show that Mariano Rajoy has lost the confidence of Partido Popular voters. More than half of those PP voters questioned said that they have little or no faith in their leader. The P.P. are behind the P.S.O.E. in voters intentions again according to the poll.

El Mundo has the story of the woman killed by her partner when he was out on a prison pass this weekend. The paper has a photo of the assassin being loaded into an ambulance. El Mundo headlines that the victim had asked he be released from prison just five days before.
ABC notes that he made no secret that he was after revenge to fellow prisoners.
El País has the story and also notes that another woman died at the hands of her partner in Valencia over the weekend.

In international news, El Mundo, says that Hugo Chávez has restarted the constitutional reform which will allow him to govern Venezuela indefinitely. El País also has the story.

El País notes that the Indian Minister of the Interior has now resigned following last week’s terrorist attacks, and that a new anti-terrorist agency is to be created in the country. ABC has a front page photo of the one of the two Spaniards who were injured in the attacks in Mumbai. The two have been brought back to Barcelona on a medical jet.

El País has a front page photo of police in Thailand where the anti-government demonstrators have blocked Bangkok airport for the past week. Finally the police have acted.
Some 600 Spaniards held up there are expected to arrive back home after the Spanish government has chartered three planes to bring them back.

And finally,
El Mundo reveals the story of the ex Tenerife footballer, Jesuli, who claims he was paid to lose the last game of the season last year against Málaga. He collected 6,000 € despite not playing through injury.

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