Spain Papers Review - Friday January 9 2009

Spain Papers Review - Friday January 9 2009
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By h.b. - Jan 9, 2009 - 9:53 AM

Today's El Mundo front page headlining the new unemployment number

The new unemployment numbers in Spain take the headlines away from Gaza in the Spanish press.

El Mundo leads with the very bad unemployment numbers and arranged for seven people on the dole to hold up a large number, in the style of the Spanish lottery, to make the number 3,128,963. The seven are standing outside an unemployment office and El Mundo says that behind each number is a personal drama. One of the men is a waiter who has been made redundant and whose monthly mortgage payment with his partner is 1,630 €.
El Mundo headlines ‘Zapatero beats the European unemployment record for a year – since 1933’. The paper says that since the collapse of the Weimer Republic which gave pass to Hitler, a European country has never created a million unemployed in 12 months. The paper notes Germany came close, 945,000, during the petrol crisis in 1974. El Mundo notes that a year ago the Prime Minister proclaimed that his Government had defeated the sore of unemployment.
El País headlines ‘More than three million unemployed’ and says that the recession placed a million more on the dole in 2008. The paper notes that for the first time there are more men unemployed than women.
ABC also leads with the number and says the experts are forecasting four million in 2009. The paper notes that despite everything, Zapatero claims that employment will be created in March.

El País reports that the Red Cross and the United Nations has accused Israel of stopping them from carrying out their work in Gaza.
ABC notes that the United Nations has halted the handing out of aid in Gaza after an Israeli attack on one of their convoys. The paper notes that Zapatero has said that talks should be undertaken with Hamas, although they are considered a terrorist organisation.
Público puts the unemployment in second plan and leads with Gaza where it says the death toll is now more than 700. It headlines that the Red Cross has accused Israel of violating human rights. The paper says their statement is without precedent and breaks their neutrality by accusing Israel of breaking the Geneva Convention by stopping their ambulances from entering a district for four days, after it had been bombed. Finally the Red Cross found four starving children next to the body of their mother.
Público has a list of declarations from Spanish actors and personalities against the war, among them the Irish Hispanic, Ian Gibson.

El Mundo says that Bernard Madoff, who oddly has started to be called Bernie in many media, signed cheques for his friends and family worth 173 million.

El País notes that Russia says it will give gas to the European Union when the guards arrive in the Ukraine.

El Mundo covers the killing of a Colombian drug trafficker who was shot four times in his hospital bed in Madrid. El País notes that the victim was in hospital after being released from prison for health reasons.

El Mundo considers that the lehndakari is trying to extend the court case opened against him and others as an electoral tactic.
El País says that Ibarretxe is demanding he be judged for negotiating.
ABC says that Ibarretxe is looking for a judicial verdict which legitimizes his talks with Batasuna and ETA.

El Mundo notes that Obama is to cut taxes by 1,000 dollars for 95% of families in the United States, and invest more in renewable energy.

And finally,
As the cold continues across the country, El País notes that emergency departments are filling up with people with the flu.

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