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smallerBy h.b. - Nov 19, 2009 - 9:02 AM
La Razón this morning
El Mundo headlines that 8 pirates have got married in Haradhere with the money paid in ransom by Spain.
The paper says as soon as they got off the boat they organized the weddings and ‘grand parties and orgies’.
El Mundo says the prices of prostitution, a drug called ‘khat’ and items in the shops have gone up by 1000%. More youngsters have come forward to carry out other kidnappings and the elderly population celebrate ‘Although you worked for centuries you would not earn this money’.
El Mundo also notes that one of the pirates, Jama Adam, claims that they were never shot at.
El País headlines that the pirates agreed 33,000 € for the families of those held hostage and notes that the Prosecutors Office wants the payment of the ransom to be investigated. The paper notes the PP want De la Vega, Chacón and Caamaño disciplined, and reports that the captain of the ‘Alakrana’ has said that some of the crew think they will not set sail again. ABC also notes the call from Rajoy against the three Socialists.
ABC says that the Ministry of Defence is blaming its spies for the trick which allowed the pirates to escape.
La Razón headlines that the capturing the pirates is still the objective. The paper says the military are proposing an operation with the intention of stopping any new hijackings.
Público debates the political row and the criticism of the PP of De La Vega. The paper notes she responded that the PP has put itself on the side of the pirates.
Público notes that the prosecutor in Spain wants to investigate the British lawyers who represented the pirates.
El Mundo has two excited photos of Deputy Prime Minister, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, and Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. Both are gesticulating in Congress and El Mundo considers that the Government is losing its nerve over the Alakrana and Sitel cases.
Regarding the Sitel case, El País tells us that a Russian mafia chief is using the PP complaints against the phone tapping system to get the case against him thrown out of court.
Público notes two failures of Barack Obama. The failure to close Guantanamo Bay in a year as promised, and ending his trip to China without managing to get them to revalue the currency.
ABC notes that the talks are underway between the Government and the PP on the agenda for the six months when Spain holds the EU presidency, from January 1. The paper says that Zapatero’s Alliance of Civilization and any policy change with Cuba have both been excluded.
El Mundo reports that Judge Garzón has denied most of the requests from ETA victims in the Faisán case, regarding a police informant tipping off ETA members ahead of a police raid. El Mundo says it seems the judge is in a hurry to close the case summary, which was opened three years ago.
El Mundo notes that three indicators have shown that the Spanish economy has reached bottom. Consumer demand, investments and exports all turned positive at the end of the third quarter.
El País reports that Brussels is demanding that Spain gives details on the bank support fund here. The EU wants Spain to act more case by case in support to the banks.
El País has a photo of a group of women, wearing suits and holding up CV job applications. It’s to highlight the discrimination against women which still remains in the positions of power in the EU where it seems that obligatory quotas are the only thing that works.
Staying in Europe, El País reports that Miguel Ángel Moratinos, has the support of French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to become the new European representative for EU foreign policy.
El Mundo asks the question why doctors don’t want to have the A flu vaccine. The paper reports that 70% of them think it is a benign illness and don’t want the jab.
El País tells us that the Government is considering extending the availability of contraception methods in the health service.
La Razón headlines that the health service is to stop the sale of buns and soft drinks in schools. They are also going to stop hamburger chains giving toys to children with their menus.
La Razón tells us that bones have been found in the grave where it’s thought Granada poet, Federico García Lorca, is buried.
And finally,
El Mundo has a cartoon character on its masthead today as ‘Planeta 51’ a Spanish film, opens in 4,000 cinemas in the United States today.
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