The Andalusian regional government, La Junta de Andalucía, had harsh words for the American credit-rating agency, which has just reduced by two levels the Junta’s credit rating to junk level.
National
A satirical take on Spanish national news
Over 150 Railway Stations to Close
by Martin Myall •
The Minister of Public Works (Fomento), Ana Pastor, has announced that 176 railway stations across the country will be closed down owing to a lack of passenger traffic. Buses will be used as a substitute.
Heart Wrenching Solution
by Martin Myall •
The bodies of two men, an elderly father and his middle aged son with a severe handicap, were found in a cemetery in Sant Andreu, Barcelona with gunshot wounds.
Unpopular Autonomias
by Martin Myall •
In a recently national survey one in four Spaniards said that they were against the autonomous region composition of the Spanish state. The sentiment is growing, fed it appears by the nationalist regions of País Vasco and Cataluña, especially the latter with its ongoing calls for independence.
Twisted and Dangerous
by Martin Myall •
A university student in Mallorca, Juan Manuel Morales Sierra, had decided that he wanted his own Columbine-type massacre in the US, but better and at his own university. He had watched endlessly the footage of the massacre carried out by Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Kletbold – they were his heroes.
Dismember The Cat
by Martin Myall •
The title sounds bad enough when you’re talking about a cat, but what if it’s an 11-year-old boy? And that, in fact, was the case, as ‘cat’ was the code word for the child victim of a kidnapping in Barcelona.
Judge Falls Foul of Politicians
by Martin Myall •
Juez Pedraz finds that the protestors outside the Parliament building did not commit any punishable act. He put the situation down to political decadence in Spain.
The Multa Trap
by Gazette Reader •
The dangers of not receiving fine and other ‘notificationes’ (warnings) whilst you are out of the country
– Revenge from Beyond?
by Martin Myall •
One elderly lady from Madrid supposedly decided that she would launch a rebuke from beyond the grave, using her obituary in a national newspaper. She had given instructions before dying that the obituary should appear exactly how she had intended.
Los Juanitos de Goma
by Martin Myall •
The briticism for a condom, does not translate directly as we have put it, but why let linguistic accuracy get in the way of a good title, eh?