Spain Papers Review - Tuesday August 17 2010
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By h.b. - Aug 17, 2010 - 9:44 AM
The cancellation of a meeting between the Prime Minister and top constructors dominates many of the papers in Spain today

ABC headlines that Zapatero cancelled the meeting after calling the constructors to the Moncloa where he was to have explained the announced cuts in public works. ABC says that sources close to the Prime Minister say that the leaking of the meeting to the media has caused it to be postponed, but with no new date.
El Mundo considers that the Prime Minister cancelled the meeting to try and avoid being linked to the ‘sounding balloon’ sent up over a possible increase in taxes. The paper notes that businessmen, politicians, and consumers are all against an increase in taxes.
El País however reports that it was the constructors who cancelled the meeting ‘so as not to appear as beggars’.
La Razón thinks it was the Prime Minister who cancelled the meeting, after news of it was leaked, and points to similarities with his meeting with Tomás Gómez last week.

El País reports that a judge has charged the top members of the Partido Popular in Orihuela and 33 others as the Brugal case continues. The paper says that the current PP Mayor of the town has now been implicated.
Público reports that PP leader Mariano Rajoy is still supporting Francisco Camps as the party’s regional candidate in Valencia, but notes that yesterday he avoided being photographed with him.

ABC has photo from the border at the North African enclave of Ceuta which has joined the Moroccan boycott already seen in Melilla. It shows protests at the frontier last Saturday and the indifference of the Moroccan police. It says both enclaves will see another day with a lack of supplies today.
El Mundo reports that the police union SUP has criticised the Equality Minister, Bibiana Aído, for not defending the female police in Melilla. The paper says that Rajoy has sent González Pons to the city as an example that the Government should take the incidents more seriously.
La Razón leads with the story and says that Melilla faces another blockade today as the vacuum of Spanish diplomacy continues. The paper says that there is no ambassador in Rabat, or consuls in Tetuán, Larache and Nador, and that the Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Moratinos, is on holiday. It says the boycott will affect cement, bricks, fish, fruit, vegetables and domestic service.

ABC notes that the National Court is to investigate a ceremony in homage to an ETA terrorist.

El País reports that a Spanish judge is to investigate Google and the accusation that its Street View cars collected private data.
Público leads with the story and puts a Googlemap of Spain on its front page.

La Razón notes that last weekend, considered to be the most dangerous of the years on the roads because of the volume of traffic saw 68% fewer deaths despite the ‘dropped ball point pen strike’ by the trafico guardia. ‘Fewer fines, fewer accidents’, is the headline.

El Mundo says that Basque anti-bullfight activists have compared the bullfight with terrorism.

El País reports that the forest fires in Galicia have now affected 4,000 hectares in a summer which otherwise has seen very few blazes.

El Mundo reports that the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, has corrected General Petraeus, and says that the USA will leave Afghanistan in 2011.

El País notes that China has overtaken Japan as the second largest economy in the world.
La Razón highlights the news with a graph and notes that China is also reducing distances with the United States.

El Mundo highlights the Israeli soldier who has put up photos of her Palestinian prisoners on Facebook, as the paper puts it, ‘as if they were pictures of a holiday in Thailand’.

El País has a front page photo of Pakistani children queuing for food. The paper says that epidemics now threaten 3.5 million children in the country following the worst floods for 80 years.

El Mundo notes the Edinburgh Festival has seen an anti-Spanish Montezuma, co-produced by the Teatro Real in Madrid where it will arrive in September.

And finally,
El Mundo puts Angelina Jolie and George Clooney on its masthead today, as the couple take on the roles of Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra.

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