May 27th
23:44
23:44
Anochece en Plaza de la Reina
May 25th
13:52
13:52
WATCH OUT, THEY GOT A LOTTA KIDS!
May 23rd
19:36
19:36
Controversial, oooh!
Barcelona play Bilbao in the Madrid-held Copa del Rey on Friday and will probably engage in pre-game bonding when they collectively boo the Spanish anthem. As you may already know, both País Vasco and Catalunya wish to be known as separate entities and insist that they are not part of Spain.
If the boo-ing happens, the President of Madrid has said she will postpone the game and make them play without a crowd.
Meanwhile Friday will also see a Pro-Spain “Contra el separatismo, una bandera” march through the Spanish capital, mere metres from the football ground. Talk about waving a red rag at a bull! (ho ho!)
Let’s just thank Dios/Deu/Janko that everyone can go back to their own countries after the match, eh? Olé.
18:37
La malvarosa
18:36
Plaza del Carmen
May 20th
16:43
16:43
Patriotic Bull, Birmingham
May 17th
23:45
23:45
Michael Keeton IST LOTTERGEIST! What! As if Bitelchús wasn’t enough…
May 16th
17:37
17:37
yes please
17:05
Bringing it back!
16:21
May 15th
00:04
00:04
Singing and dancing in Plaza de la Virgen, earlier
Spain’s indignados return to the streets amid fears of crackdownOfficially, indignados – whose protest last May set an example followed by “occupy” campaigners from Wall Street to St Paul’s – are allowed in the Puerta del Sol for a maximum of 10 hours during the four days of planned action. But that looked unlikely to happen, with organisers hoping sheer numbers will prevent police from moving in to stop a continuous demonstration that started on Saturdayand is due to end on Tuesday.
“People will stay, that much is obvious,” said charity worker José Ignacio Blasco, who spent his evenings and weekends in the Puerta del Sol last May. “Violence is what authorities want because it is what they understand, but this movement is pacifist. That is exactly what they find so difficult.
“If they want to criminalise non-violent protest, they might as well declare Gandhi and Martin Luther King to have been terrorists,” he said.
The clampdown on protests comes after a year in which unemployment has risen to 24%, a return to recession and, in recent days, the nationalisation of the fourth biggest bank, Bankia. Spain is at the centre of the eurozone crisis and Rajoy’s government is fixated by the threat of violent protest.
11:14
May 12th
11:04
11:04
