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Spain Papers Review - Monday June 29 2008
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By h.b. - Jun 29, 2009 - 9:39 AM
ABC today
El País headlines that the Honduras army kidnapped the President and then sent him to Costa Rica. The paper says that Manuel Zelaya has promised to return as ‘only the people’ can remove him. The paper notes that Hugo Chávez has offered military support to the deposed mandate. The paper has a photo of a tank in the streets of the capital.
El Mundo shows a group of protestors attacking a tank and says that the people have taken to the street to demand a return to democracy. The paper says the military expelled President Manuel Zelaya and parliament has replaced him with Micheletti.
Público reports that the army has sent President Zelaya into exile in a coup which has upset Latin America. The paper says Zelaya has said he was kidnapped by shooters before being set to Costa Rica, and that he has made a call for ‘peaceful civil disobedience’. Público says that the international community has condemned the coup, the first seen on the continent since the once suffered by Hugo Chávez in 2002. It says that Zapatero is among those to call for the ‘immediate’ return of the Honduran leader, and shows a front page photo of the military taking the streets of Tegucigalpa where it notes that electricity and transport services were suspended.
ABC says that the military action has the support of the judiciary and Congress, but the world is demanding the return to constitutional order. It also has a front page photo.
La Vanguardia reports that demonstrations have restarted again on the streets of Iran.
El Mundo, which has been printing revelations about Alberto Saiz, as the head of the Spanish Secret Service, CNI, for the past week or so, today reminds us of some of his decisions in the post.
The paper headlines that he paid the police in the ‘Bono Case’ and also over the Vallecas rucksack. The bag, which contained the bomb which failed to explode, was at the centre of the conspiracy theory over the Madrid Train Bombings, with claims that it was not properly guarded at all times. El Mundo says Saiz is accused of paying 2,000 € a month to the police commissioner Rodolfo Ruiz from special reserve funds, and the policeman retired when the National Court found him guilty over the arrest of two PP members in the aggression against José Bono when he was a Socialist Minister. The guilty verdict was overturned in the Supreme Court.
El Mundo says that the same policeman was the chief of the police station in Vallecas where the rucksack appeared, with the paper noting that nobody on the trains saw it.
El Mundo also reports on the comments from the Director of the CNI who has said the campaign against him in the press comes ‘because I am the son of a mechanic’.
El País has more on the Gürtel case affecting the Partido Popular and today says the case has uncovered a network of false facturas. It says Constructora Hispánica, which received contracts from the PP for the construction of the AVE high speed train worth nearly 100 million €, paid facturas to ghost companies. The same company allegedly paid 1.6 million in backhanders in the Gürtel case.
The President of the PP in Andalucía, Javier Arenas, has accused Manuel Chaves of ‘abuse’, according to El Mundo, and has said he will take him before the Supreme Court.
It’s over the allegation that Chaves gave preferential treatment and a grant to a mining company where his daughter works as legal assessor.
Still some coverage for the untimely death of Michael Jackson. El Mundo reports that the singer’s family doubt the way in which his doctor tried to reanimate Michael.
El País says the doctor overcame questioning, and the police do not think him guilty. ABC notes he was questioned for more than three hours.
ABC gives prominence to the nanny who has said that she gave stomach pumps to Jackson, because of the drug cocktails he had taken.
Back in Spain, El Mundo tells us that the banks here have given ten times more credit to public bodies than to families.
El País notes that the Euribor has ended the month of June at a new historic low of 1.6%. The paper says that 50 year mortgages will see their monthly payments cut in half, if they are being annually revised now.
El País also notes that the Bank of Spain is putting on pressure for more mergers between savings banks. The paper says the bank established two weeks ago those banks which were prepared to take over weaker cajas.
ABC headlines that the Government wants to take in 675 million from an increase in electricity prices. The paper says that after the tax increases on petrol and tobacco, the cabinet has turned to electricity to ease the deficit. The Ministry for Industry expects tariffs to increase by more than 11% in a year.
A survey in Público reveals that most of the public support the idea of limiting the 400 € tax rebate to the poor.
La Vanguardia reports that UNESCO does not think the work to build a tunnel for the AVE high speed train in Barcelona, causes any risk to the Sagrada Familia cathedral.
ABC says that ETA wants to use the Sastre party as a way into to reopen negotiations, considering his links to intellectuals as an advantage. Meanwhile the paper reports that Congress is upset because Amnesty International referred to the terrorists as ‘the armed Basque group’.
Público tells us that the ‘digital revolution’ starts in Spain tomorrow, when more than three million people who are in the first phase of the DTT, Digital Terrestrial Television, and say adios to their analogue signal.
El Mundo notes the end of the Confederations Cup with Brazil coming back from 0-2 to beat the United States 3-2 in the final. The paper also notes that Spain needed extra time to beat South Africa 3-2.
And finally,
Público today has a travel guide for those of you who want to see paranormal phenomena on your holidays.
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