Spain Papers Review - Monday November 30 2009

Spain Papers Review - Monday November 30 2009
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By h.b. - Nov 30, 2009 - 8:53 AM
International news and football dominate the front pages in Spain today

Público today -

El Mundo notes that three Spanish charity workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania. The two men and a woman were working for the Barcelona-Acció Solidària organisation were taken 150 kms from Nuakchot.
ABC leads with the story and says the three have been kidnapped by Al Qaeda, and that they were taken as they were in a convoy moving material. It says that Spanish Government started another rescue operation in the African continent last night.

El País reports that Tehran has launched a new nuclear challenge to the west, and has announced plans to build ten uranium enrichment plants.

El Mundo notes that the Western Sahara human rights activist, Haidar, has rejected the offer of Spanish nationality as her hunger strike continues in Lanzarote. She has called for Zapatero to intervene in the matter.
ABC notes that her hunger strike continues, and also that Ceuta and Melilla have been left out of the latest EU pact so as not to upset Rabat.

El País headline that Spain’s National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, has indicted Pinochet’s family for money laundering. The judge, who wants to question his widow, has fixed a civil bail at 51 million €.

El Mundo notes that 57% of the residents of Switzerland voted for a ban on any more Muslim mosque minarets be built in the country. El País notes that turnout in the referendum was 55%.

El País notes the vote in the Presidential Elections in Honduras have resulted in a divided country and will not help it to get out of the crisis it has been in for the past five months.

El Mundo reports that ETA estimates that there are only 191 activists which still follow the hard line policy.

Público reports that the Banks in Spain covered up the real estate black hole. It says a large part of the 324 billion € lent to real estate promoters is not correctly covered. The Bank of Spain has already taken it as read that the banks are to lose at least 130 billion.

El Mundo headlines with the Catalan statute row again – ‘Here Montilla and Moncloa are in control and Ferraz has nothing to say’. It comes from an interview with José Zaragoza, the Catalan Socialists Party’s Organisation Secretary, where he demanded the complete autonomy for the Catalan Socialists from the national party in Calle Ferraz. He also tells the paper that the Constitutional Court has a credibility problem, not because of the Statute, but because of the campaign against it carried out by the PP.
La Razón has a three page interview of Mariano Rajoy. The PP leader says that the outcome of the Statute row is to meet the law. He claims the only economic policy that Zapatero has is to spend money so that the people are quiet, and says that if the abortion reform is approved they will appeal to the Constitutional Court.

All the papers give wide coverage to the Barcelona 1-0 victory over Real Madrid last night. El Mundo has a photo of Cristiano Ronaldo with his hands on his head, and headlines that Ibrahimovic was more on the ball than Cristiano. The paper notes too that the Barça Chairman, Joan Laporta, used the match to demand that the Constitutional Court respect the Catalan Statute.
ABC has the same photo of Ronaldo and says the football has beaten politics, and that the row over the Statute did not affect the game. It considers Real Madrid deserved a better result.
El País says that the Barça only just beat Real Madrid who were very competitive.
La Razón says Barça beat an improved Madrid and goes top of the league as a result.
Público headlines, ‘Ibrahimovic makes the difference’ and says his spectacular goal has given the lead back to Barça, although the paper says that Madrid were finally playing as a team.

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