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Man-on-the-street TV anchor guides Spain through crisis
With his high-pitched voice, square spectacles and stubbly chin, Jordi Evole is not your typical dashing television presenter. That doesn’t stop three million Spaniards switching on to watch him every Sunday evening. Indeed, it’s his man-in-the-street style that makes the political journalism of his hit show “Salvados” so popular in…
Thousands of Spain’s horses head for the slaughterhouse as economic crisis results in abandonment
In Spain’s boom years, they were a rich family’s status symbol. Now abandoned as a result of the economic crisis, horses are plodding in their tens of thousands to the slaughterhouse. At the end of a bumpy country lane in southern Andalucia, Spain’s farming and horse-rearing heartland, Virginia Solera helps…
Locksmiths and firemen refuse to aid evictions in Spain
Locksmiths and firemen in Spain are rebelling against a wave of evictions in the economic crisis by refusing to help bailiffs open ruined homeowners’ doors to throw them out. “Families’ lives were being ruined and we were acting as executioners,” David Ormaechea, president of the Locksmiths Union, told AFP. “It…
Thousands take to the streets against Spain’s ‘financial genocide’
Thousands of people demonstrated in Spanish cities on Saturday pushing for a new law to end a wave of evictions of homeowners ruined by the economic crisis. Several thousand marched yelling to the din of drums and horns in central Madrid, waving banners reading “Stop evictions” and yelling “We have…
Evicted retired couple commits suicide as Spain debates reform
A retired couple in Spain killed themselves Tuesday because they faced eviction, police said, as lawmakers considered legislation to save ruined homeowners from being thrown into the street. In the latest in a series of suicides reportedly linked to evictions, the couple, aged 68 and 69, killed themselves in their…
Spanish police seize 4.5 tons of cocaine hidden in cow hides
Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 4.1 tonnes of cocaine worth nearly a quarter of a billion euros in one of the biggest ever seizures of the drug in the country. The cocaine was found at a warehouse in the eastern city of Elche, hidden in containers of cow…
Report: Work in U.S. and Spain losing its appeal for Latin Americans
For Latin Americans seeking work abroad, traditional magnets like the United States and Spain are losing their appeal because of weak economies, said a report released Thursday. Instead, more and more are looking to countries such as Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, according to the study by the Organization…
Catalonia independence movement reels after sovereignty vote fails
Catalonia’s fight for statehood and a historic divorce from Spain floundered Monday after a snap election left no single party in command. Pro-sovereignty parties from right and left emerged with a clear combined majority, but the prospects of them joining in battle for a new nation were deeply uncertain. That…
Basque separatists ready to disband if certain conditions met
Spain’s armed Basque separatist group ETA said Saturday it was ready to discuss disbanding and to negotiate with France and Spain if certain conditions are met, in a statement published on a Basque news site. The group, which last year said it had abandoned violence after a four-decade campaign for…
Spain considers automatic residency to foreign home buyers
Spain may offer automatic residency to foreigners such as Chinese and Russians who buy homes in the country, aiming to help the ruined housing market, a government official said Monday. “We have proposed to the other ministries that for residents who acquire a home in Spain for more than 160,000…
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