Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
Northern Spain Starts Day Explosively
7:27 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|Spain · Comments Off
14 May 2008
A bomb in Legutiano, Basque country, in Northern Spain, exploded this morning at a police barracks, killing one person, wounding two, and leaving two people trapped in the rubble of what is left.
Not surprisingly, the Spanish government is looking at ETA, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, also known as the Basque Homeland and Freedom movement in Basque, a Basque separatist organization, as responsible for the bombing.
Via / Al Jazeera
Spanish President Warns Chavez to Behave
7:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Latin America|Politics|Spain|Venezuela|World · 1 Comment
13 May 2008
Spanish president Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has warned Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez against disrespecting his government during the Latin American-European Summit to be held in Lima this week:
…he reiterated to Hugo Chavez that he must respect Spanish institutions, after he once again criticized the Spanish king.
On his weekly radio address, Aló Presidente, Hugo Chávez said that the Spanish king “thinks he’s superior” to Latin Americans but that “when the King goes to the bathroom, he lets out the same thing the rest of us do.” Quite the colorful illustration.
President Zapatero says that if Chavez does go to the Summit this week, “it’s quite probable that I will have a talk with him”. Zapatero is apparently attempting to avoid another embarrassing incident like this one.
Perhaps the German government should be more concerned. Apparently Chavez has been comparing president Angela Merkel to Hitler and plans to confront her at the Summit.
Via / Canarias 7 and El Universal
The King tells Chavez to shut up
5:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Latin America|Spain|World · 4 Comments
12 Nov 2007I´m not lost! Just trapped in a world of dial-up connections. Greetings from Spain, where the news piece of the week is how, at the Summit of the Americas in Santiago, King Juan Carlos of Spain — normally tranquil and silent — told Hugo Chavez to shut up after hearing him go on and on about Spain’s ex-president, Jose Maria Aznar being a fascist:
Condi Wags Finger at Spain
1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics|Spain · Comments Off
1 Jun 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Spain today to make nice with the Iberian nation but the first public words out of her mouth were of reproach. Condi criticized the Spanish government for its relationship with Cuba and said that Spain wasn’t pulling its weight in Afghanistan.She said:
Democratic states have an obligation to act democratically, meaning to support opposition in Cuba, not to give the regime the idea that they can transition from one dictatorship to another…I would like to see all of the allies do more, and Spain is included in that list.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero said he wasn’t surprised by the differences. The U.S. government and Spain have also been at odds over Spain’s relationship with Venezuela and its President Hugo Chavez.
If Condi is so concerned about how good relations between Cuba and Spain are maybe someone needs to show her the Iberia commercial.
Via / MSNBC
Image Via / Venezuela Analysis
Bloggers strike out against Spain
2:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|Controversia|Cuba|Spain · 1 Comment
30 May 2007
Last week we told you about a controversial ad for Spain’s Iberia airlines which had a Spanish consumer group up in arms over its depiction of Cuba. The ad was pulled due to pressure by the group, and has been covered by quite a few bloggers. On a related note, a group of conservative Cuban bloggers have announced their condemnation of the Spanish government for its relationship with Cuba. Calling themselves the “Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty” (BUCL), they’ve launched a multimedia campaign against Spain:
“This effort marks the first of several coordinated activities aimed at exposing those countries, companies and institutions that aid and abet the Castro regime in oppressing the Cuban people,” said Henry Gomez, the spokesman for Bloggers United for Cuban Freedom. Gomez continues:
Europe is against the border fence
6:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|World · 3 Comments
3 May 2007
Barack Obama might be for building a fence on the border between Mexico and the United States to quell the flow of immigrants into this country, but the head of Foreign Policy for the European Union, Javier Solana, says “no”:
“A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the European Union members like,” Solana said at a Tuesday news conference in Mexico City.“We don’t think walls are reasonable instruments to stop people from crossing into a country.”
The EU believes immigrants should be treated “like people, not like criminals,” he said.
Europe has an “immigration problem” as well. In fact, Spain, from where Solana hails, is the European country which bears the weight of much of the immigrants entering Western Europe. In 2006, Spain took in over 600,000 immigrants — 44% of the total number for the entire European Union (!) — and in spite of that fact, the EU’s stance is one of tolerance. Interesting.
Via / CNN
Paraguay pissed at Spain over immigration
12:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Paraguay|Spain · 3 Comments
25 Apr 2007
Last year over 42,000 Paraguayans attempted to enter Spain last year, and 4.3% of them were sent back to their country. This, and recent reports of denied entry and verbal abuse on the part of Spanish police officials, has the president of Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte, so up in arms that he’s cancelled an official visit to Spain:
The surprising announcement comes one day after chancellor and Spanish ambassador to Paraguay, Eduardo de Quesada, gave a press conference in which he addressed immigration problems at Madrid’s airport, which Duarte would discuss on his visit to the European country.
Cuba and Spain becoming friends again
5:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics|Spain · Comments Off
3 Apr 2007
After a chilly stage in Cuba-Spain relations that’s lasted for about 4 years, Spain took the first step towards improving relations with Caribbean nation with an official visit to the island by Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos
…the most senior EU government official to go to the communist-run island since the dispute, will meet on Tuesday with acting President Raul Castro, who took over in July after Fidel Castro underwent stomach surgery.
Moratinos said that the meeting marks “a new path” for the relationship between Cuba and his country…
It’s absolutely unthinkable that Spain … cannot maintain, defend and develop an intense, constructive and communicative policy with the Cuban authorities,” he said
…And hopefully a better relationship for Cuba with the European Union.
Undocumented immigrant fashion show
5:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|Immigration|Spain · Comments Off
18 Jan 2007
In liberal Barcelona, Spain, one of the country’s top designers, Antonio Miró, has decided to incorporate the topic of immigration into his appearance at a top fashion show, using undocumented immigrants from Senegal as the models:
Miró placed a makeshift raft and some freight boxes as the only stage dressing to show his designs for the next winter season which, like his show from last year did by incorporating prisoners from the Modelo prison [in Barcelona] has a “solidarity” angle.
In Spain, the word for “trendy” in popular argot is “fashion”. Could this just be a “fashion” fashion show? Like it’s trendy to adopt African babies or go help with Katrina cleanup?
Colombian couple denied baby name in Spain
11:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Controversia|Immigration|Justice|Spain · 7 Comments
12 Jan 2007
Immigration to Spain from Latin America is huge these days, with many people choosing to emigrate to the Iberian peninsula instead of the U.S. since Spain makes it a lot easier. But one thing some courts are not making easy is naming your baby what you want to name it:
Lina and Newar came from Colombia 5 years ago with their son, Steven 11. They settled in Las Rozas [Madrid] and afterward had two more children: Malcolm, who is now 4, and Beliza, an 8 month-old girl.The problem, Lina explains, “came about when we went to sign the papers confirming Beliza’s Spanish citizenship. In the Civil Registry they told us that we had to change the child’s name because it didn’t exist and didn’t go with either sex.“
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