The two people murdered last night in a house in Oviedo are the sister and brother-in-law of the detainee, according to the Government delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, who confirmed this on Tuesday.
An election campaign basically consists of raising a bell tower. The higher it is, the bigger the bell and the farther the ringing reaches, the better for the officiating priest. However, it happens that sometimes, down on the street, things happen that distract people to the point that no one pays attention to the ringing.
In the mixed zone, from which the Argentine players fled stealthily and treacherously after losing the final, demonstrating their nonexistent greatness in defeat, a Brazilian journalist was summarizing what was seen in the longest World Cup in history: “Football finally won.”
Widows have always had a reserved seat in the world of investments. The Scottish Widows investment fund was created in the early 19th century to assist women who lost their husbands in the Napoleonic wars and today manages more than 200 billion euros. In Spain, the dividends from the elevator company Zardoya were once known as “the widows’ dividend,” for being as reliable as leaving a pension.
The controversial words of the former Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy about the French team continue to cause a stir. The former leader stated in a column in the newspaper El Debate that France, Spain’s next opponent in the World Cup semifinals, “has a very high-level squad, that is true, but without French players.”
Vicent M. Garcés (Liria, 1946) lived through the last days of Salvador Allende’s government and the arrival of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship from the inside. His brother Joan Enric, political advisor to the Chilean president, was with him at La Moneda during those decisive hours. Garcés managed to leave the country and, a year later, wrote clandestinely Chile. Analysis of the First Year of Military Dictatorship (1973-1974), a book that aimed to document the repression and dismantle the narrative imposed by the Military Junta. Published under the pseudonym Pablo Santillana, its distribution was cut short by repression. More than fifty years later, the work has been reissued in Chile and now returns to València. In this interview, conducted remotely on Friday, Garcés recalls that experience, explains how the book was born, and reflects on the lessons the 1973 coup left for today’s democracies.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, ruled out this Tuesday that the pilot plan to deploy six plainclothes police officers in Catalan schools to reduce conflicts is due to “security problems” in the educational centers of the territory.
The data revealed yesterday in the PISA report on the abilities of Valencian students in reading, mathematics, and science should set off all alarms in the political, institutional, and educational system. Data that adds to others such as the high level of…
The Guardia Civil has arrested a man for sexually assaulting a woman on a bus near Baamonde, in the municipality of Begonte (Lugo), on a regular route between Viveiro and A Coruña.
The Plenary of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has approved this morning to extend the activity of the Almaraz nuclear power plant for three more years, until 2030. This is what the owners of the plant, Iberdrola, Endesa, and Naturgy, had requested. This position of the Nuclear Safety Council was mandatory, but it does not yet represent the final step for the plant to extend its operational life. From now on, it is the Government who has to make the final decision.