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25/03/2013 / SPAIN
Spaniards pushed into ‘economic exile’ tell their stories
The economic crisis has forced many young Spaniards to emigrate to find work. Three of them – one in Morocco, one in the United Kingdom, a third who is planning on leaving Spain soon – tell us their stories. Read more...
18/03/2013 / SPAIN
Video casts doubt on Spanish coastguard's collision with migrants' boat
In the early hours of December 13, two boats collided off the coast of Lanzarote: one belonged to the Spanish Coast Guard, the other was carrying 25 illegal immigrants from Morocco. One of the immigrants was found drowned, seven others are missing and presumed dead. The authorities claimed a mechanical failure prevented the coast guards’ boat from moving out of the way of the immigrants’ boat. But a surveillance video filmed from a hotel on the coastline has called the official version of events into question. Read more…
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24/01/2013 / SPAIN
The article on the front page of Thursday’s edition of prestigious Spanish newspaper El Pais is titled “Chavez’s secret illness”. Accompanying it is a large photo of a man, lying down, with medical tubes in his mouth. This legend describes the man as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Read more...
Spanish newspaper publishes fake photo of Hugo Chavez in hospital
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23/08/2012 / SPAIN
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10/08/2012 / SPAIN
Andalusia farmers fight to turn military land into agricultural collective
For the past two weeks, hundreds of out of work farmers have occupied a plot of land owned by Spain’s military in the country’s southern Andalusia region. Their goal: to set up a communal agricultural project aimed at breathing fresh life into an area hard hit by Spain’s ailing economy. Read more...
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18/06/2012 / SPAIN
Spanish mine strike turns ugly: “The government is leaving us no other choice”
Spain’s miners are more riled up than ever before, after more than two weeks of strikes protesting the end of government aid to the mining sector. One of the protesters, who works in a mine in Spain’s northern province of Asturias, told us about their struggle, which is sliding a little more into violence every day. Read more….
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15/05/2012 / SPAIN
Spain’s 'Indignados' protest foreclosures by closing their bank accounts
Just around the corner from Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza, the epicentre of Spain’s “Indignados” movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary, dozens of protesters lined up outside a bank Monday to close their accounts. Our Observer explains they did this to protest what they see as Bankia’s unfair seizures of homes that owners can no longer pay their loans on. Read more...
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22/02/2012 / SPAIN
Spanish police clash violently with students: "I don’t understand how the situation degenerated so fast"
In a nod to the popular uprisings that swept across parts of North Africa and the Middle East, young Spaniards in the coastal city of Valencia have taken to calling their own protest movement “Primavera valenciana”, or the Valencia Spring. Outraged by major budget cuts in education, students have hit the city’s streets to vent their frustration. Look at the images…
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19/01/2012 / SPAIN
Spanish commuters say ‘I’m not paying’ to fare hikes
More than 10,000 Spaniards have joined the “Yo No Pago” (“I’m not paying”) movement on Facebook to protest rising transportation costs. Now, they’ve starting putting this concept into practice by jumping turnstiles in the subway. Read more...
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23/09/2011 / SPAIN
'Los indignados' protest march stumbles across a disenchanted Paris
Spain’s protest movement “los indignados” (the “indignant ones”) marched through Paris last week en route from Spain to the Belgian capital Brussels. Yet our Observer, who has travelled with the movement all the way from Madrid, said she was disappointed by the less-than-enthusiastic welcome los indignados received upon their arrival in the City of Light.
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