Spain Papers Review - Thursday October 22 2009
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By h.b. - Oct 22, 2009 - 8:46 AM
Different lead stories across the Spanish papers today

El País has been the only Spanish paper to give the environmental disaster at the Tablas de Daimiel marshland Nature Park coverage over recent days, and today they lead with the news that the European Union has demanded an explanation for the peat fires which are currently burning out of control underground.

El Mundo leads with the headline that the National Court held key evidence against Manzano for six months. The Manzano they refer to is the chief of the police Tedax explosives unit, Juan Jesús Sánchez Manzano.
The paper says that at that rate it will take another three years for the March 11th Victims Association to be given copies of the videos which show the analysis of the explosives used in the Madrid train bombings.
Conspiracy theories continue in the paper.

El Mundo tells us that lawyers in Madrid have started action against National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, for phone tapping their conversations with clients implicated in the Gürtel case. The lawyers’ college has described the phone taps as intolerable.
La Razón leads with the story and says the lawyers have called for the prosecutor to act over the breaking of client confidentiality. The paper also reveals that the Socialist Party in Valencia contracted a vehicle from a company linked to Francisco Correa, the alleged man at the centre of the case.
It’s been quiet for the past few days in the Gürtel case, but today Público dedicates its front page to more investigation and headlines that the right hand man of Esperanza Agurirre in Madrid signed payments to corrupt network. The paper prints a copy of a bill, signed by Ignacio González González to prove the point.

El País has a photo of the same Ignacio González, and says that Esperanza Aguirre has put him forward as the new Chairman of the Caja Madrid savings bank, and the paper says that she has advised PP leader Mariano Rajoy that it is not his business. He’s known to prefer the rival candidate, ex Minister Rodrigo Rato.

El Mundo says that María Antonia Munar has been charged with town planning corruption in Mallorca. She is the President of the Parlament for the Unió Mallorquina party, and is alleged to have irregularly invested 30 million.
El País also has the story and notes that her party has supported both the Socialists and the PP in the past. She is accused of selling a 52,000 square metre plot for 30 million when its official value was double that amount.

El Mundo reports that new tests have confirmed that the Somali pirate is 18 or more years old.
El País says that Abdu Willy changed from being under age to an adult yesterday in the National Court. The paper says his future will be decided today.
La Razón and ABC both put a photo of him on their front page.

El País gives a couple of business stories prominence today. It notes that French company Suez has taken over the Aguas de Barcelona company, and also that Ferrovial has sold Gatwick airport for 1.66 billion.

La Razón notes that the Official Credit Institute, ICO has only given 66 of the 6,000 millions forecast to help families pay their mortgages. The paper also notes that the Government is planning to reduce the price of medicines to reduce health costs.
ABC headlines that the crisis has now sunk more than 60% of Spanish homes, according to the INE, National Statistics Institute. The paper says that while the Government denies it, 20% of the population are on the poverty line.

In international stories,
El Mundo has a special envoy report on a day in the life of General McChrystal in Afghanistan, and has a photo of him on the front page. He’s been the commander of the international troops in the country since last June.
Público notes that the United Nations is to sack the election observers who allowed the election fraud there to take place.

El País reports that Iran has accepted putting nearly all of its uranium under international control. The pre-accord still has to be ratified by the Iranian authorities, says the paper.

And finally,
El Mundo says that tonight their website opens a new America section at www.elmundo.es/america. The paper says it has spent the last 20 years as the world leader of information in Spanish. The paper’s website is already the second busiest in Latin America.

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