Spain in the World June 29th 2013 Edition

This week a tribute to Antonio Gaudí in Google. "Google's latest doodle celebrates the 161st birthday of Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect whose iconic buildings have left an indelible mark on Barcelona." says the Guardian. One of most famous contemporary architects which created many emblematic buildings along Catalonia and Spain and is the reference in Barcelona architecture.

The Wall Street Journal talks about "Poisoned Inheritance". A 76 years old woman can finish without house because she has inherited her daughter debts. With mortgages up to 50 years long this is becoming a problem more and more common. Long term mortgages will become a huge problem in the next 30 years when most of the mortgages signed in the boom years will arrive to and end. Now people are not only giving up inheritances that they are even giving up to their children like a couple at Talavera de la Reina.

I cannot avoid to talk about football, Spanish team have arrived to one more final. Some people say the best in the universe against the best in the world. Maybe the final that everybody was waiting for.

In our videos section do not miss Derek Sivers' video about how to start a movement.

My question this week is about the "troikas", is it better a politician or a scientific? Watch 5 minutes video about nerdy stuff by Melissa Marshall.

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Spain in the World June 22nd 2013 Edition

Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

This week in Spain in the World JUSTICE. Spaniards are asking for justice nowadays, against Iñaki Urdangarín, King's son in law, against politicians, bankers, credit union's representatives, when we have not even been able to give justice to all of those who died before, during and after the Civil War in both sides the last century. International Amnesty explains how justice can´t be done in Spain how difficult is and in my opinion is one of the reasons justice can´t be done with today´s crimes, no until we have finished with the silence pact and all the dead rest in peace.
Talking about dead, Iberia is on the edge. Low profits, strikes and new competitors are taking down the company that it needs to be restructured or die.
Related to the recession, you can find in this week news people working for a coffee or food and a Tram that it goes to Australia because a city council cannot afford it anymore. from BBC news.

Football on Yahoo sports; "Spain: The team everyone loves to hate". Del Bosque's team keeps winning at the Confederations Cup. Who did say Spanish Team was finished? 


My questions this week, are really politicians realizing about what it is going on? Do they see what the Spain needs? How long has to take before an agreement between society to go out from recession?

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Idyllic … the Atlantic coast in the northwest Spanish region of Galicia. Photograph: Gabriel Tizon/EPA

Spain in the World June 15th 2013 Edition

This week almost everything is about football. And I have said almost because one of the biggest tennis players won the last week his 8th Roland Garros in Paris.
A Spanish doing history, Rafael Nadal after moths out of the games for a knee injury he is back. "If you believe you cannot improve yourself, that means you know nothing about life" he said about himself.

With the confederations cup and the best teams from each continent on it, maybe is the first time all the countries take serious this competition. Spain will try to do their best as everyone is speculating with their game and possibilities for the next world championship. After beating Ireland in an easy game for the Spaniards now it comes the big competition.
Also related with football this week Lionel Messi. One of the best football players "dodging taxes in Spain is easier than dodging defenders" The Guardian says. In a case that most of people say it will finish with a tax return and a fine, it remembers us Spaniards the lack of JUSTICE in Spain.
Scandals as CAJAS, bribes, misappropriations,
embezzlement of funds finish without any punishment to guilty.

This week my question is, is it the same Capitalism and Imperialism? Do not miss the video of Learn Liberty.

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Spain in the World June 8th 2013 Edition

International Brigades fighters in Spain. Photograph courtesy of Benny Goldman

Spain is still trying to forget its own history, and maybe what is worst, it is trying to delete the history. While other countries are proud or not about their own history and they have museums to their own disasters or "shames". Forget history is forget who we are and why we are here, forget history means to forget why Spanish is after Mandarin the most important mother-tongue in the world, is forget why we lost that empire, which are our roots, why do we finished fighting in civil wars in the last 200 years because it was not only one. The Guardian talks about this.

Unemployment rate goes down but they are only temporary works the New York Times says.

Is this the end of the recession or still we have to wait?
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Spain in the World Jun 01st 2013 Edition

This week the Economist shows on of the keys in Spanish Economy for the rest of the century. Its more powerful weapon (asset) is too the  most dangerous. The Spanish language is at the same time virtuous and vice. "Spanish has more native speakers than any language other than Mandarin" highlights.
In the beginning of the "good times" many Spanish speakers arrived in the peninsula looking for a job. Now, that there is not more job, they are leaving looking for a better opportunity elsewhere.
But still the Spanish is one of the most important tool for our future and we have to take care of it.

Maybe I did this question before and I will do it again;
Why is the inflation so high in Spain?
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