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DEMONSTRATION: Escrache groups have turned violent

Scratchy subject in Spain

ESCRACHE  has entered the Spanish lexicon.  Argentinean slang for a theoretically peaceful human rights demonstration outside a private home or place of work, the concept has migrated to Spain. Here it is increasingly used by protesters and anti-eviction groups, but is fast becoming violent. This occurred when an escrache group…
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UNPOPULAR: Spanish are unsure who to vote for, or if to vote at all

Money, money, money

TWENTY-EIGHT per cent of Spaniards told an official survey that they did not want to vote.  Seventeen per cent said they did not know who to vote for. Politics are now a sore subject and less than being at a low ebb, the popularity of politicians has sunk to fathomless…
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ROSA DIEZ: No longer smiling due to Mariano’s constant slip ups

Slip of the tongue getting too much

EVERY time Mariano Rajoy refers to Rosa Diez, he gets her name wrong. At first the leader of the UPyD party ignored the slip which has occurred regularly since Rajoy became president.  During the debate that followed Rajoy’s State of the Nation speech, Diez pulled him up for the first…
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CORRUPTION: Hard to look on at people still living the high life

The pain in Spain

FOR the second month running, corruption was cited by the Spanish as one of their greatest worries after unemployment. Graft, bribery and corruption have always been welded inseparably to public life in Spain, whatever the date in history, the name of the regime or the political parties involved. That politicians…
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