Spain’s communist Government – unfortunately the current holders of European Union’s rotating presidency, want the EU to go forward with improving relations with communist Cuba, despite a row after Havana’s refusal to grant entry to a Spanish member of the European Parliament.
“Isolation, blockage and embargo (against Cuba) do not lead to anything. They have not given any results in 50 years,” Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said, according to monstersandcritics.com.
Moratinos made the comments …

Scotland Yard and Spanish police seized cocaine with a street value of £375million from a yacht off the coast of northern Spain, Sky News reports; it’s believed that the vast majority of the drugs were destined for London.
At least 1.5 tonnes of the drug were found hidden on board The Destiny Express after it was boarded by Spanish police 200 miles off the Iberian coast.
The 150ft former coastguard vessel was en route from the West …

Spanish region of Catalonia is set to become the first comunidad in the country to ban the best entertainment Spain can offer – bullfighting.
The area’s regional Parliament today took a major step towards outlawing the tradition by voting 67 to 59 (with five abstentions) to draw up a law calling for fighting bulls to be protected in the same way as other animals, the Daily Mail reports.
The proposal, which will be voted on in April, …

A runaway cat from Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, got on a ferry from Portsmouth and was discovered four days later in Spanish port town of Bilbao.
A ship hand on board the P&O ferry Pride Of Bilbao spotted the cat on the car deck as the ship was preparing to dock in Bilbao yesterday, the Daily Mail reports. The cat, named Sandi, was identified by its microchip and was returned to Portsmouth on board the ferry where he …

Spanish police have arrested nine men suspected of seeking to have a woman killed after they accused her of adultery, claiming they were following sharia law.
The men were arrested on 14th November and seven have been held in jail, news channel al-Arabiya reports.
According to police, the woman had been taken in March and held in an isolated house in Valls in northeastern Catalonia.
Authorities say the men set up a court there to judge her for …

The British National Party (BNP) would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens, the Sun reports.
The move would also deprive the UK of a naval base – defended bitterly for more than 300 years – of huge strategic importance.
Party leader Nick Griffin, elected as an MEP in June, made the offer at a fascist rally in Madrid last week to suck up to European extremists. …

Not only are the Spanish Government hopeless communists, they’re also hopeless idiots. Because there is no other way to explain the measures they approved today.
The Spanish Government, lead by the Mr Bean lookalike, but about 1000 times stupider Jose Luis Zapatero, approved a decree today that sets limits on the temperature that air conditioners and heaters can be set to in public spaces such as bars and offices and such.
Under those rules, and now it …

The socialist government of the Spanish region of Extremadura, otherwise known as a bunch of idiots, have launched a 14,000 euro (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching children “self-pleasure”, or, more bluntly, masturbation.
“Pleasure is in your own hands” is the slogan of a campaign that has sparked political controversy and challenges traditional Roman Catholic views on sex, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Despite the opposition to advertising masturbation and spending taxpayers’ money, officials from the neighbouring region of …

A 700-year-old Torah scroll adorned with mystical kabbalist designs will be put up for sale by Sotheby’s on 24th November, Ha’aretz reports.
The scroll, which experts think is the oldest surviving Torah from the Golden Age of Spain, will be offered for purchase based on an appraised value of $300,000 to $500,000. It is one of several items of Judaica that will be on offer.
The scroll’s importance was first identified by Rabbi Yitzchok Reisman, a New …

Spanish archaeologists are preparing to exhume a civil-war era grave believed to hold the remains of the acclaimed poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, the AP reports.
The Government of Andalucia region says the exhumation will begin today. It will mark the highest-profile step yet in a decade-old drive for Spain to address atrocities committed against civilians during and after the 1936-39 war.
Garcia Lorca was executed by supporters of General Francisco Franco in the opening days of …

Mother of a small child, Iratxe Sorzabal Diaz, has been named as the “political” chief of the Basque terrorist organisation ETA.
Former “political” chief of ETA, Aitor Elizarán Aguilar, was arrested yesterday in northwest France.
Sorzabal is the most significant member of ETA’s ideological structure, The Times reports. Her appointment means that women are wresting power from men inside an organisation described by a senior anti-terrorism source as “traditionally macho”.
During the 1990s, Sorzabal was linked to an ETA …

French police have arrested two suspected terror group ETA members, including a senior political leader of the Basque separatist group, Aitor Elizaran Aguilar, the BBC reports.
Elizaran is a joint political chief of the group. He was arrested with another senior member, Oihana San Vicente, in the north-western seaside town of Carnac.
ETA are responsible for more than 820 deaths during their 41-year terror campaign for an independent Basque homeland. Spain and France have been working closely to crack down …

Spanish communist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country will soon assume the European Union’s rotating presidency, said that he will “cooperate fully” with US President Barack Obama, which also means cooperation on Middle East peace process, where Obama has clearly taken the side of the enemies of Israel.
Zapatero met yesterday with Israel’s President Shimon Peres and expressed interest in increasing his country’s role in Israel-Arab talks, particularly once Spain takes on the EU …

Happy Hour has been banned in the bars and nightclubs of Barcelona in an attempt to curb stag and hen party-style binge drinking, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Drinking establishments will no longer be able to offer 2 for 1 drinks, ladies’ nights, or any other promotion that encourages punters to drink more for less. The move is in part aimed at ridding the streets of Barcelona of drunken tourists visiting the city on stag and hen weekends.
Barcelona …

A Spanish judge has indicted three suspected former nazi concentration camp guards on charges of genocide and ordered their arrests, CNN reports.
Two of the suspects, Johann Leprich and Anton Tittjung, each 84, are thought to live in the United States, while the third, Josias Kumpf, also 84, is believed to live in Austria.
They are accused of serving in the nazi SS. Leprich and Tittjung were armed guards at the Mauthausen concentration camp and Gross Raming …

Spanish police have dismantled a major drug trafficking ring on the holiday island of Ibiza with the arrest of 25 Britons and the seizure of 23,300 ecstasy tablets, AFP reports.
The 18 men and seven women, all from Liverpool, were detained in dawn raids last Friday in seven locations across the Mediterranean island, including a pub in San Antonio thought to be the ring’s centre of operations.
The gang are suspected of controlling the distribution of drugs …