Spain Papers Review - Monday August 23 2010
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By h.b. - Aug 23, 2010 - 7:43 PM
The release of the two remaining Spanish aid workers held captive in Mali dominates the front pages today.

El Mundo headlines that Vilalta and Pascual have been freed in exchange for their kidnapper and 3.8 million € after the head of the group which captured them has been extradited from Mauritania to Mali. It says the ransom was paid in two parts months ago.
El País headlines that Al Qaeda has put the release of the aid workers into gear and says that Albert Vilalta and Roque Pascual travelled last night from Malí to a ‘safe place’, and that the Spanish Government is confident that they will be handed over today.
La Razón headlines that Al Qaeda has collected a large ransom for the release of the Spaniards. The TV channel Al Arabiya puts it at between 5 and 10 million €. The paper notes that the Spaniards have been held for 267 days – the longest kidnapping by terrorists in the Maghreb. The paper has a photo of them with the caption ‘In the name of Alá’.
Público says the two are on their way home and headlines ‘The end of a nightmare’, highlighting 267 days.

El Mundo notes that in the primary elections for the Socialist candidate in the Madrid regional fight, Tomás Gómez, has refused to give the census of those party activists allowed to vote to his opponent, Trinidad Jiménez, claiming that she is still not a candidate.

Público reports that Esperanza Aguirre, the PP regional leader in Madrid, gave 13 million € in contracts to companies for advertising which did not exist.

El País reports that the renovation of the Constitutional Court has put two sections of the PP against each other. It says that Federico Trillo wants to keep the current stale mate in place.

El Mundo has an interview with the PNV deputy, Joseba Beloki, who tells the paper ahead of the negotiations on the State budget, that to support the Government they want more than ‘tips’, but want a voice in pensions, energy and industry’.

El Mundo reports that García Jodrá, who it describes as one of the ETA hardliners, has been transferred from Córdoba to Huelva for being a conflictive prisoner. The paper claims he could now be moved to the same jail as his girlfriend so he can become a father and undergo fertility treatment with her.

El Mundo tells us that the public employment agency only manages to place 3% of those who find work contracts.
La Razón notes that the number of fixed work contracts issued is down 9.5% this year, while temporary contracts have increased.

El País notes that Spain is no longer in the group of most heavily punished countries by the markets, and claims distance has been gained from Greece, Portugal and Ireland a month after the printing of the bank stress tests.

El País notes that the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, is travelling today to Morooco to try to solve the conflict over the frontier at Melilla.
La Razón says that he will also talk about the fight against Islamic terrorism.

Público notes that Netanyahu is putting down conditions ahead of any talks with the Palestinians.

El Mundo has a large front page photo from Chile where it says there has been a miraculous rescue. Civil Protection teams have managed to contract 33 miners who have been 688 metres underground for 17 days, and who were thought to be dead.

El País notes that Washington has stopped paying for the analysis at Palomares in Almería where one of her bombers dropped atomic bombs in 1966. The paper notes that the USA has been paying the costs of medical and environmental analyses until this year.

Público notes that an association is trying to block a new search for the remains of the Granada poet, Federico García Lorca.

El Mundo notes the dramatic final to the basketball on Sunday night when Spain lost by a single point, 86-85, against the United States. The paper notes good play by Navarro and Durant.
El País has a front page photo from the friendly match played in the Caja Mágica in Madrid yesterday.

El País notes that Benicàssim is playing host to Rototom, the largest reggae festival in Europe, after 15 editions in Italy.


And finally,
El Mundo puts a photo of bullfighter Sergio Aguilar being gored in the neck in Vistaalegre, Bilbao on its masthead. The paper says that he is now recovering.

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