I use to go to Galicia, the region is above Portugal, two weeks a month. I will be next week there and surely I will have a deeper knowledge of what happened yesterday on the Regional Parliament: the PP voted to “look for a consensus” on the plan that the regional government is promoting to impose the gallego (the regional language) in the schools and in the Galician society. Hours later, the leader of the PP on Galicia, Mr. Feijóo (former president of Correos, the public mail company in Spain), …

Source - Instituto Nacional Estadística, Ministerio Administraciones Públicas.
This is something I was thinking to talk about: the number of public workers or civil servants on Spain. I remember the other day reading an article of Antonio Gala on El Mundo newspaper, and also the different articles and reflections of Roberto Centeno on his blog.
It comes to happen that the civil servants of both, central and autonomic regions administration is a big number in Spain. Accordint to the figures, published by the INE (National Institute of Statistics) and the Ministry …

… does not go to a debate. Like in any other area of the life, of the politics, when the left is not right, when it does not have the reason (never has the reason), they boycotts it.
For example, not allowing the others to talk. Remember the second debate Mr. Zapatero vs. Mr. Rajoy, when, with the compliance of implicit permission of the moderator, Mr. Zapatero interrupted always when Mr. Rajoy was talking. Other examples: Daniel Múgica, on the TV program El gato al agua of Intereconomía TV.
The leftists interrupt …

In Spain, when a person is always presuming of something he did not do, or he cannot achieve, is called phantom. This is always a contemptuous word; it points to a slighty trustworthy person, to whom him (or her) it is not possible to belice anything because always he (or she) will lie.
Mr. Zapatero did today an speech on the United Nations, presuming of the solidity of the financial and banking Spanish system, and also indicating that Spain aspires to overcome in per capita income France in 3 or 4 …

Today, on the Commission established to investigate the accident of the airplane of Barajas, the representatives of the pilots resigned, due of the filtrations to the mass media that have been done systematicly. This is one of the multiple irregularities on the management of this accident by the Spanish public administration.
On a country in which the filtrations are used by the socialist governments in order to do two type of things: first, to hide the effect of other huge problems on Spain (for instance, the economic crisis); second, to divert …

This image is a capture of Google Earth. And this indicates the degree of differentiation of the nationalism in Spain. Although Catalonia is part of Spain, the nationalists (including those who are on the government of the Autonomic Region of Catalonia) are taking the lead on any initiative that will allow them to create a culture of differentiation. By shadowing Catalonia, they want to indicate that this is not a part of Spain, which, by the way, is not true.
Why Google Earth is allowing this? Why? I make guilty for …

When the British were pointing out to the Spanish as racist, with this affair of Mr. Aragonés (the former Spanish responsible of the national football team) and his words about Thierry Henry, ior the behaviour of Spanish F1 fans against Hamilton, or the newest polemic with the Spanish national basketball team, what can the British say about this?
This is three times insulting: to the Spanish, to the fat men and to the waiters, as Mata-dor (Matallanas, the COPE sports commentator) perfectly says.
Well, the British are perfect examples of that the …

Javier Bardem, the Spanish performer or actor, did some declarations on the New York Times saying that the Spanish people are “una panda de estúpidos” (and I say this in Spanish for not being accused of confusion). Later on, on a press note, he rectified and said that he feels a “deep respect and gratefulness” for the big majority of the Spanish people, and that said that the declarations were misunderstood due to linguistic communication.
I do not have a big consideration of Javier Bardem. A person who has positioned clearly …

The declarations of Mr. Zapatero on the congress of the Socialist Party in Madrid are an indicator of what Mr. Zapatero thinks about what the situation is regarding Spanish economy. First: USA is guilty of the Spanish economic crisis. There was a very hard liberalism and a free concession of mortgages for the people, and that bring us a colapse on the Spanish financial system. Second: the situation of the economy now is due to the fact that the Aznar government has promote the speculation on the real estate and …

I am very accostumed to see the Spanish government, the socialist Spanish government, to look for another side when it comes to violation of the law. Very accostumed. I remember perfectly the case of Zapatero denying the dialog with ETA Basque terrorist (remember, BBC!) band, and also allowing the assassin De Juana Chaos to flew from the jail and walk around on San Sebastián with his girlfriend. Even more, there is a legend stating that there was a tale-bearing to the ETA environment when the police was to act against …