<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSun, 05 Apr 2026 04:32:41 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Inside the private Telegram chat calling for immigrants in Spain to be ‘hunted down’: ‘Arab heads will roll’]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-07-15/inside-the-private-telegram-chat-calling-for-immigrants-in-spain-to-be-hunted-down-arab-heads-will-roll.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-07-15/inside-the-private-telegram-chat-calling-for-immigrants-in-spain-to-be-hunted-down-arab-heads-will-roll.htmlTue, 15 Jul 2025 10:08:50 +0000A pinned message, right at the top:

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]]>Violeta Santos Moura<![CDATA[In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-18/in-spain-dozens-of-girls-are-reporting-ai-generated-nude-photos-of-them-being-circulated-at-school-my-heart-skipped-a-beat.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-18/in-spain-dozens-of-girls-are-reporting-ai-generated-nude-photos-of-them-being-circulated-at-school-my-heart-skipped-a-beat.htmlMon, 18 Sep 2023 16:44:06 +0000Back to school. First day of class. Isabel, 14 years old, went last Tuesday to her high school in Almendralejo (Extremadura, Spain), a municipality with almost 30,000 residents where practically everyone knows each other. That morning, she entered the schoolyard to find a rumor spreading from group to group. It was all everyone was talking about: there were photos of naked female classmates being passed around everyone’s phones. Isabel (her name has been changed at the request of her mother) went out to recess with her friends. They were in shock. Suddenly, a boy approached her and said: “I saw a naked photo of you.”

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]]>@PoliciaLocalAlm<![CDATA[Who is Alvise Pérez, the anti-system Spaniard who has obtained three seats in the EU Parliament?]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-06-10/who-is-alvise-perez-the-anti-system-spaniard-who-has-obtained-three-seats-in-the-eu-parliament.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-06-10/who-is-alvise-perez-the-anti-system-spaniard-who-has-obtained-three-seats-in-the-eu-parliament.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 15:02:11 +0000“We must destroy the system and rebuild it from scratch.” “If there is a narco-terrorist, I don’t want him to be chased down, I want you to get him with a submachine gun.” “There are more and more illegal immigrants who we don’t know whether they are rapists.” “The moment a squatter enters your house, off to jail with them.” “Everything that political parties touch becomes corrupt.” “I don’t trust the Post Office. I am the only candidate who has asked for people not to vote for me by mail.” “I would rather bleed to death than betray the Spanish people.” “Journalists: media information whores.” “We are not extremists. We are patriots fed up with political parties.”

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]]>Claudio Álvarez<![CDATA[Searching for Madrid’s first cultural ambassador: Mick Jagger said no, Tim Burton said yes]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-18/searching-for-madrids-first-cultural-ambassador-mick-jagger-said-no-tim-burton-said-yes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-18/searching-for-madrids-first-cultural-ambassador-mick-jagger-said-no-tim-burton-said-yes.htmlMon, 18 Jul 2022 17:12:23 +0000Tim Burton has never made a film about Madrid. He doesn’t own a home there, and has never even lived in Spain. Yet, in September of this year, Madrid’s mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will appoint him as the city’s ambassador.

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]]><![CDATA[The revolt of the 1% against the coronavirus ‘oppression’ in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-05-16/the-revolt-of-the-1-against-the-coronavirus-oppression-in-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-05-16/the-revolt-of-the-1-against-the-coronavirus-oppression-in-spain.htmlSat, 16 May 2020 09:36:42 +0000Residents of Madrid’s upscale Salamanca neighborhood have been making headlines since Sunday with a series of street protests against the government over its handling of the coronavirus crisis.

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]]>©Jaime Villanueva<![CDATA[Carlos, the Spanish retiree taking on the banks]]>https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2022-01-20/carlos-the-spanish-retiree-taking-on-the-banks.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/opinion/2022-01-20/carlos-the-spanish-retiree-taking-on-the-banks.htmlThu, 20 Jan 2022 09:58:10 +0000The generation that changed Spain has been the victim of a pandemic for two years now. Older citizens are the ones who have suffered the most from it. And the ones that were forgotten most often. As if that were not enough, they are now finding out that the tech revolution affects them more intensely today than it did in 2020. These days, every action involves a click, an eternity for those who grew up playing out on the streets back in the 1940s. They find it impossible to perform such simple tasks as going to the bank and typing in a PIN or PUK number, using Bizum (an instant payment platform used in Spain) or making a digital money transfer.

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]]>A. Pérez Meca <![CDATA[A year and a half on from pandemic, 190,000 people in Madrid still depend on food donations]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-08-10/a-year-and-a-half-on-from-pandemic-190000-people-in-madrid-still-depend-on-food-donations.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2021-08-10/a-year-and-a-half-on-from-pandemic-190000-people-in-madrid-still-depend-on-food-donations.htmlTue, 10 Aug 2021 08:52:42 +0000It’s summer but, for many in Madrid, vacations are all about looking at an old photo of the beach on their cellphone. “I’m from the Caribbean,” says Isolina Medina. “How can I not miss going on holiday if we have the beach on our doorstep where I come from!”

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]]><![CDATA[Madrid region faces early election after infighting triggers political earthquake]]>https://english.elpais.com/politics/2021-03-10/madrid-region-faces-early-election-after-infighting-triggers-political-earthquake-in-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/politics/2021-03-10/madrid-region-faces-early-election-after-infighting-triggers-political-earthquake-in-spain.htmlWed, 10 Mar 2021 17:39:55 +0000Spain’s butterfly effect began in the southeastern region of Murcia. The precarious balance between the country’s two main political blocs has been broken by what started out as a local move but that quickly snowballed into an event with national repercussions.

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]]><![CDATA[Three children in Spain test positive for coronavirus ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-04/three-children-in-spain-test-positive-for-coronavirus.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-04/three-children-in-spain-test-positive-for-coronavirus.htmlWed, 04 Mar 2020 14:32:54 +0000A four-year-old girl from Madrid has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus. The child contracted the virus just days after her father returned from a trip to the north of Italy.

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]]>Víctor Lerena<![CDATA[Coronavirus outbreak sparks panic buying in Madrid ]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-11/coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-panic-buying-in-madrid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-11/coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-panic-buying-in-madrid.htmlWed, 11 Mar 2020 14:56:24 +0000The coronavirus outbreak in Madrid has sparked panic buying at supermarkets across the capital. On Tuesday, customers waited in long lines to stock up on products such as pasta, rice, oil, milk and toilet paper, leaving many shelves empty.

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]]>CARLOS ROSILLO<![CDATA[Coronavirus crisis in Madrid’s senior homes: “If he gets infected, no one will do anything to help him”]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-20/coronavirus-crisis-in-madrids-senior-homes-if-he-gets-infected-no-one-will-do-anything-to-help-him.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-20/coronavirus-crisis-in-madrids-senior-homes-if-he-gets-infected-no-one-will-do-anything-to-help-him.htmlFri, 20 Mar 2020 09:23:40 +0000Senior homes in the Madrid region have been devastated by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The extent of the crisis has been difficult to measure. Amid the confusion, EL PAÍS has been trying to shed light on the critical situation. Madrid authorities opened an investigation on Thursday to find out how many residents of the region’s 425 senior homes have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and how many have died.

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]]>FERNANDO VILLAR<![CDATA[Why are Spaniards buying more beer and chocolate under the coronavirus lockdown?]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-04-02/why-are-spaniards-buying-more-beer-and-chocolate-under-the-coronavirus-lockdown.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-04-02/why-are-spaniards-buying-more-beer-and-chocolate-under-the-coronavirus-lockdown.htmlThu, 02 Apr 2020 10:49:23 +0000Shoppers in Spain have been buying more alcohol since the Spanish government declared a state of alarm in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic. The sale of beer rose by 77.65% with respect to the previous week, while wine jumped by 62.7% and alcoholic drinks by 36.58%, according to a study in the consumer magazine Inforetail, which is supported by the Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-Service Stores and Supermarkets (Asedas).

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]]><![CDATA[Madrid, Health Ministry reach deal that could see the Spanish capital confined ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-30/madrid-health-ministry-reach-deal-that-could-see-the-spanish-capital-confined.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-30/madrid-health-ministry-reach-deal-that-could-see-the-spanish-capital-confined.htmlWed, 30 Sep 2020 07:11:49 +0000A deal was reached on Tuesday evening between the Madrid region and the Spanish government, after the latter had threatened to intervene in the former given the levels of coronavirus infections that are being registered there. The Health Ministry has managed to get the regional administration of premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the conservative Popular Party (PP), to accept the conditions that its experts were demanding, the most important of which will be the implementation of restrictions to all basic healthcare areas where the cumulative incidence of coronavirus infections over 14 days exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

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]]>Comunidad<![CDATA[Madrid will observe central government’s new coronavirus restrictions, but plans to challenge them in the courts ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-01/madrid-will-observe-central-governments-new-coronavirus-restrictions-but-plans-to-challenge-them-in-the-courts.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-01/madrid-will-observe-central-governments-new-coronavirus-restrictions-but-plans-to-challenge-them-in-the-courts.htmlThu, 01 Oct 2020 11:10:40 +0000The Spanish government on Thursday published new health regulations in the Official State Gazette (BOE) establishing restrictions aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus.

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]]>Juan Carlos Hidalgo<![CDATA[Spanish government considering nationwide state of alarm to implement a curfew]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-20/spanish-government-considering-using-nationwide-state-of-alarm-to-implement-a-curfew.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-20/spanish-government-considering-using-nationwide-state-of-alarm-to-implement-a-curfew.htmlTue, 20 Oct 2020 13:14:58 +0000The Spanish government is considering introducing a nighttime curfew across the whole of the country, in a bid to bring down coronavirus infections. The executive believes, however, that it would need to do so under a state of alarm given that there is no other option that would give it the legal framework to limit a fundamental right such as that of movement in this way.

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]]>Andrea Comas<![CDATA[Nearly all of Spain’s regions set to close their borders ahead of long weekend]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-10-29/nearly-all-of-spains-regions-set-to-close-their-borders-ahead-of-long-weekend.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-10-29/nearly-all-of-spains-regions-set-to-close-their-borders-ahead-of-long-weekend.htmlThu, 29 Oct 2020 12:41:19 +0000Eleven of Spain’s regions, as well as the North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla, have announced that they will be closing their borders ahead of the All Saints holiday on Monday, thus limiting the usual travel of some Spaniards across the country on such a long weekend. The move comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the country, with new cases having grown 71% in 15 days, according to the latest report from the Health Ministry, with the 14-day cumulative number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 453, another record high during this second wave.

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]]>Miguel Toña<![CDATA[Families, seniors and nuns among victims of Spanish Church property scandal ]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-12-09/families-seniors-and-nuns-among-those-affected-by-a-church-property-scandal-aimed-at-getting-rich-with-lies-and-deceit.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-12-09/families-seniors-and-nuns-among-those-affected-by-a-church-property-scandal-aimed-at-getting-rich-with-lies-and-deceit.htmlWed, 09 Dec 2020 14:17:39 +0000On June 30, 2016, a short man in his fifties walked purposefully into a building on Núñez de Balboa street, in Madrid’s upscale Salamanca neighborhood. David López Royo, who had once worked as a regional newspaper editor in Andalusia, had just been appointed president of 74 Catholic Church foundations by the archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Carlos Osoro. He now had more than a thousand employees working for him. “He is like a snake charmer,” summed up one of his former workers.

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]]><![CDATA[Madrid blast claims fourth victim]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-01-21/madrid-blast-claims-fourth-victim.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-01-21/madrid-blast-claims-fourth-victim.htmlThu, 21 Jan 2021 08:13:16 +0000“It was like an earthquake, I thought a bomb had gone off.” That was one witness’s account of the explosion that ripped through a building in central Madrid at 2.56pm on Wednesday, at number 98 Toledo street – just a kilometer from the landmark square Plaza Mayor and 15 minutes on foot from the central Puerta del Sol.

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]]><![CDATA[Spanish mother’s fight against betting: “My son has been gambling for 10 years. I can’t go on”]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-01-31/spanish-mothers-fight-against-betting-my-son-has-been-gambling-for-10-years-i-cant-go-on.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-01-31/spanish-mothers-fight-against-betting-my-son-has-been-gambling-for-10-years-i-cant-go-on.htmlFri, 31 Jan 2020 07:26:52 +0000Pablo was still in secondary school when he placed a bet for the first time. The 27-year-old from Madrid has been addicted to gambling since 2009. “When he was 18 years old he managed to open the safe we kept in the room. How much time he must have spent to find out the four-digit pin!” says his mother Susana Fonseca. Pablo was cautious. He stole small amounts so as to not arouse suspicion. Sometimes he took out €100, other times €200 or €500. “We realized he was betting when he took €600. To this day, I still don’t know how much he took,” says Fonseca, 51, who began therapy a few months ago to learn how to help her son.

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]]>KIKE PARA<![CDATA[Spain’s Supreme Court rules general curfews cannot be imposed under current health laws ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-06-03/spains-supreme-court-rules-general-curfews-cannot-be-imposed-under-current-health-laws.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2021-06-03/spains-supreme-court-rules-general-curfews-cannot-be-imposed-under-current-health-laws.htmlThu, 03 Jun 2021 15:26:15 +0000The Spanish Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that general curfews and restrictions on social gatherings cannot be introduced under the country’s current health laws. The ruling has sweeping implications for Spain’s regions, which are in charge of controlling the coronavirus pandemic in their territories.

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]]>CATI CLADERA<![CDATA[Spanish prosecutors probe far-right Vox’s campaign billboard over hate crime allegations]]>https://english.elpais.com/politics/2021-04-21/spanish-prosecutors-probe-far-right-campaign-billboard-over-hate-crime-allegations.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/politics/2021-04-21/spanish-prosecutors-probe-far-right-campaign-billboard-over-hate-crime-allegations.htmlWed, 21 Apr 2021 15:56:31 +0000Spanish leftist parties, including the governing Socialist Party (PSOE), are taking legal action against the far-right Vox for what they describe as an attack on migrant minors on a campaign billboard ahead of a regional election in Madrid on May 4.

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]]><![CDATA[At least three dead in Madrid blast that partially destroyed building]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-01-20/at-least-three-dead-in-madrid-blast-that-partially-destroyed-building.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-01-20/at-least-three-dead-in-madrid-blast-that-partially-destroyed-building.htmlWed, 20 Jan 2021 17:24:53 +0000At least three people are dead, eight have sustained injuries and one more remains unaccounted for after there was a powerful explosion at around 3pm on Wednesday inside a building in Madrid, according to a statement made by central government delegate José Manuel Franco.

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]]><![CDATA[Madrid rules out stricter Christmas restrictions despite coronavirus fears]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-12-17/madrid-rules-out-stricter-christmas-restrictions-despite-coronavirus-fears.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-12-17/madrid-rules-out-stricter-christmas-restrictions-despite-coronavirus-fears.htmlThu, 17 Dec 2020 13:13:28 +0000The premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced on Thursday that the region is not considering stricter restrictions for the Christmas period, despite concerns about the rising number of coronavirus cases there.

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]]>J.J. Guillén<![CDATA[Madrid will close its borders for 10 days in early December]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-11-20/madrid-will-close-its-borders-for-10-days-in-early-december.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-11-20/madrid-will-close-its-borders-for-10-days-in-early-december.htmlFri, 20 Nov 2020 11:49:08 +0000The Madrid region is going to close its borders during the December holiday week, as it did for the recent All Saints and Almudena fiestas. December 8 is a national holiday in Spain, while December 7 is a holiday in all regions except Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia and the Basque Country. Under normal circumstances, this would be a time when many Spaniards take a holiday and travel, for example, to second residences in other parts of the country.

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]]>Santi Burgos<![CDATA[Madrid considers closing regional borders ahead of long weekends ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-27/madrid-considers-closing-regional-borders-ahead-of-long-weekends.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-27/madrid-considers-closing-regional-borders-ahead-of-long-weekends.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2020 16:01:50 +0000The Madrid government is considering putting the entire region under a perimetral lockdown, meaning citizens would not be able to enter or leave without a proper reason, such as work or a doctor’s visit. The move comes ahead of two long weekends for Madrileños: November 2 is a holiday in some regions of Spain (Madrid, Andalusia, Aragón, Asturias, Castilla y León, and Extremadura) and November 9 is a regional holiday.

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]]>Jesús Hellín <![CDATA[Madrid announces new restrictions on social gatherings to curb coronavirus spread ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-23/madrid-announces-new-restrictions-on-social-gatherings-to-curb-coronavirus-spread.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-23/madrid-announces-new-restrictions-on-social-gatherings-to-curb-coronavirus-spread.htmlFri, 23 Oct 2020 11:06:12 +0000The Madrid regional government on Friday announced new restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus when the current state of alarm comes to an end on Saturday. Some of the measures will apply to the entire region, while others will exclusively affect 32 basic healthcare areas with a high incidence rate of the virus.

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]]>EUROPA PRESS/M.FERNÁNDEZ. POOL -<![CDATA[Madrid region open to a curfew once current state of alarm expires]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-20/madrid-region-considering-curfew-once-current-state-of-alarm-expires.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-20/madrid-region-considering-curfew-once-current-state-of-alarm-expires.htmlTue, 20 Oct 2020 13:19:07 +0000With four days left to go before the expiration of the state of alarm introduced by the central government in the Madrid region in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus, there was still uncertainty on Tuesday as to the measures that will be put in place in the area from Saturday onward. Speaking this morning during an event organized by news agency Europa Press, regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero stated that among the options his administration is considering is a curfew imposed by the central government. This possibility was later confirmed by the Spanish health minister, Salvador Illa.

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]]><![CDATA[With state of alarm set to end in Madrid, government looks for new ways to control coronavirus spread]]>https://english.elpais.com/politics/2020-10-19/with-state-of-alarm-set-to-end-government-looks-for-new-ways-to-control-coronavirus-spread-in-madrid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/politics/2020-10-19/with-state-of-alarm-set-to-end-government-looks-for-new-ways-to-control-coronavirus-spread-in-madrid.htmlMon, 19 Oct 2020 12:25:58 +0000The Spanish government is rushing to reach a new agreement with the country’s regions on coronavirus measures before the state of alarm it implemented in Madrid ends on Saturday. Under the emergency measure, which was declared in the region on October 9, nine cities in the central region – including the Spanish capital – were placed under perimetral lockdowns and subject to other restrictions on social gatherings in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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]]>Fernando Alvarado<![CDATA[Minister’s warning to Madrid government: ‘You can’t play with public health’]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-14/ministers-warning-to-madrid-government-you-cant-play-with-public-health.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-14/ministers-warning-to-madrid-government-you-cant-play-with-public-health.htmlWed, 14 Oct 2020 07:32:00 +0000The ongoing tensions between the central government and the Madrid regional administration have changed the way that the Health Ministry’s regular press conferences about the coronavirus crisis are being held. Where once the director of the Health Ministry’s Coordination Center for Health Alerts (CCAES), Fernando Simón, would review the latest data in his usual deliberate and informative tone, the events have now become another element in the open warfare between the two governments.

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]]>Emilio Naranjo<![CDATA[The Madrid villages that have remained free of the coronavirus ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-13/the-madrid-villages-that-have-remained-free-of-the-coronavirus.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-13/the-madrid-villages-that-have-remained-free-of-the-coronavirus.htmlTue, 13 Oct 2020 06:42:55 +0000Madrid is the region worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. But there are five municipalities in the region that have remained free of the coronavirus: La Hiruela, Robledillo de la Jara, Navarredonda y San Mamés, Somosierra and Horcajo de la Sierra. They are all small villages in Madrid’s Sierra mountain range, where temperatures can plummet due to the high altitude.

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]]>david expósito<![CDATA[Government intervention of Madrid looms as region refuses to adopt stricter coronavirus measures ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-28/government-intervention-of-madrid-looms-as-regional-administration-refuses-to-implement-stricter-coronavirus-measures.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-28/government-intervention-of-madrid-looms-as-regional-administration-refuses-to-implement-stricter-coronavirus-measures.htmlMon, 28 Sep 2020 07:15:11 +0000The Spanish government and the Madrid regional administration are currently engaged in last-minute negotiations in a bid to avoid the former from intervening in the latter, given the resistance of the region’s premier, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to implement stricter coronavirus measures despite having the worst infection rates in Europe.

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]]>VÍCTOR SAINZ<![CDATA[Impasse between Madrid, central government continues as coronavirus cases spiral out of control in the region ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-29/impasse-between-madrid-central-government-continues-as-coronavirus-cases-spiral-out-of-control-in-the-region.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-09-29/impasse-between-madrid-central-government-continues-as-coronavirus-cases-spiral-out-of-control-in-the-region.htmlTue, 29 Sep 2020 07:24:20 +0000Despite another meeting on Monday, the positions of the Spanish government and the Madrid administration about the coronavirus situation in the region continue to be distant. The central government believes that the epidemic is out of control in Madrid, and that more restrictive measures need to be implemented. The regional government, meanwhile, continues to insist that the situation is under control and is even improving.

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]]>Comunidad de Madrid <![CDATA[Madrid to make face masks mandatory in all public spaces ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-07-28/madrid-to-make-face-masks-mandatory-in-all-public-spaces.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-07-28/madrid-to-make-face-masks-mandatory-in-all-public-spaces.htmlTue, 28 Jul 2020 13:47:15 +0000The premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced on Tuesday that face masks will be mandatory in all public spaces, including sidewalks cafes, even when social distancing measures can be respected. The new rule, which has already been introduced in all of Spain’s 17 regions with the exception of the Canary Islands, will come into effect on Thursday. Violators will face fines of up to €100.

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]]><![CDATA[Spain updates official Covid-19 death toll, says new outbreaks are under control]]>https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-06-19/spain-updates-covid-19-death-count-says-flare-ups-are-under-control.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-06-19/spain-updates-covid-19-death-count-says-flare-ups-are-under-control.htmlFri, 19 Jun 2020 16:55:44 +0000The Spanish Health Ministry on Friday offered an updated coronavirus death toll after freezing the total for close to two weeks.

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]]>A.Carrasco Ragel<![CDATA[“We’re alone,” say parents of Korean student killed in Madrid by falling masonry]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/31/inenglish/1577778744_264839.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/31/inenglish/1577778744_264839.htmlTue, 31 Dec 2019 08:17:15 +0000“My daughter has unmasked the danger of tourism in Madrid,” says a poster held by a friend of Jihyun, 32, a South Korean fashion designer who was killed by a piece of falling masonry in the Spanish capital on December 20, after finishing a Spanish course in Valladolid.

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]]><![CDATA[Staff at minors’ center targeted with grenade: ‘This is not an isolated event’]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/05/inenglish/1575537532_119108.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/05/inenglish/1575537532_119108.htmlThu, 05 Dec 2019 10:42:23 +0000On Wednesday morning, a military-grade grenade was thrown over the wall of a center for minors in the Hortaleza district of Madrid. On October 30, 30 young men tried to storm the center. On October 5, two masked men approached a bus stop nearby. When they got there, they beat two young Arab-looking men with rowing oars. The attack happened in the middle of the day. No one in the neighborhood can say with certainty who the perpetrators were. “It’s an isolated incident,” the local spokesperson from the center-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) party said at the time. The next day, there was graffiti on the bus stop: “We all row together. Viva Spain.”

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]]>VÍCTOR SAINZ<![CDATA[Spanish explosives experts defuse grenade at Madrid center for minors]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/04/inenglish/1575469675_277855.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/04/inenglish/1575469675_277855.htmlWed, 04 Dec 2019 15:14:35 +0000A team of explosives experts on Wednesday safely destroyed a training grenade after the weapon was thrown over the wall of a center for minors in the Hortaleza district of Madrid.

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]]><![CDATA[“I’m not racist; I vote for Vox because you have to sort your own country out first”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/19/inenglish/1574151972_163720.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/19/inenglish/1574151972_163720.htmlTue, 19 Nov 2019 09:55:15 +0000Big stone houses, little stone houses, villas, semi-detached homes with pools, massive property after massive property... And then there’s Javier Merino’s bar. Thirty-five kilometers from the center of Madrid, south of the satellite town of Fuenlabrada, the 10,178 people living in Griñón voted overwhelmingly for the far-right party Vox at the November 10 repeat general election, giving it the highest share of the vote – 32.6%, which is seven points more than at the April poll.

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]]>M.V.<![CDATA[After another inconclusive election, Socialists rule out grand pact with the PP]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/11/inenglish/1573490056_920718.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/11/inenglish/1573490056_920718.htmlMon, 11 Nov 2019 17:31:26 +0000Forming a government in Spain will be more complicated than ever following the inconclusive repeat election on Sunday, which delivered big gains for the far right and left the winning Socialist Party (PSOE) with 120 seats, 56 short of a parliamentary majority.

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]]>Óscar Cañas<![CDATA[A man’s desperate bid to evict squatter granddaughter from his Madrid home]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/27/inenglish/1561645632_121212.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/27/inenglish/1561645632_121212.htmlFri, 28 Jun 2019 06:50:12 +0000It happened three weeks ago. Eighty-seven-year-old Madrileño Vicente Moreda was in Cartagena, Murcia, when he got a phone call from the residents’ association in his building, located at 112 Atocha street in Madrid.

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]]><![CDATA[Facing depopulation, a Spanish village turns itself into a nursing home]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/24/inenglish/1558691924_831230.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/24/inenglish/1558691924_831230.htmlFri, 24 May 2019 12:03:10 +0000“I was a priest,” says José Vicente Granados, the mayor of Pescueza, a Spanish village in Cáceres province in the inland western region of Extremadura. The 43-year-old was born in Pescueza and lived there until he was 14, when he left to study theology in Badajoz. “I abandoned the priesthood out of a lack of religious vocation. I returned to the village in 2006, and later met my wife,” he says.

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]]><![CDATA[Vandals desecrate graves in Spain’s only German military cemetery]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/09/inenglish/1554793959_398488.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/09/inenglish/1554793959_398488.htmlTue, 09 Apr 2019 10:27:16 +0000Chema Hernández spotted the graffiti first. He was driving his tractor early Friday morning, when he saw that the wall of the Cuacos de Yuste cemetery, located in the western Spanish city of Cáceres, had been painted with the message: “Neither Nazis with honors nor anti-fascists in ditches.”

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]]><![CDATA[WhatsApp: The new weapon in the fight to win over Spanish voters]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/18/inenglish/1552900378_672737.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/18/inenglish/1552900378_672737.htmlMon, 18 Mar 2019 11:44:05 +0000During the run-up to the last general election in Spain, political parties used Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to spread their messages. This year, with a snap general election called for April 28 and local, regional and European elections set for May 26, it appears they are turning to WhatsApp, the most popular social network in Spain.

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]]><![CDATA[Spanish train passengers incensed after getting stranded in the middle of nowhere]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/02/inenglish/1546445719_028215.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/02/inenglish/1546445719_028215.htmlWed, 02 Jan 2019 16:49:10 +0000The regional government of Extremadura, in western Spain, has used the term “useless” to describe railway authorities after 163 passengers were stranded in the middle of a field on New Year’s Day.

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]]><![CDATA[How Spain’s far-right Vox created a winning social media strategy]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/12/19/inenglish/1545234565_871352.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/12/19/inenglish/1545234565_871352.htmlFri, 21 Dec 2018 14:31:13 +0000Traffic to Vox’s website and social media platforms has soared following the recent elections in Andalusia, where the far-right party garnered 10.97% of the votes and 12 seats in the regional parliament.

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]]>AFP<![CDATA[Spain’s Extremadura region: “No opportunities and no hope”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/11/07/inenglish/1541577579_493126.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/11/07/inenglish/1541577579_493126.htmlFri, 09 Nov 2018 07:48:20 +0000The train in Extremadura goes at three different speeds, according to actor Chema Trujillo – slow, very slow or not at all. It’s a joke from a local, but the truth is that delays, cancellations and even fires are no laughing matter. On October 13, one of the trains heading for Madrid actually ran out of gas.

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]]><![CDATA[“The Chinese would finish the Gran Vía roadworks in 48 hours”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/08/inenglish/1539010723_185023.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/08/inenglish/1539010723_185023.htmlThu, 11 Oct 2018 06:39:38 +0000Tune into 92.9FM on any radio in Madrid, and you’ll hear Mandarin Chinese being spoken 24 hours a day. The station’s name is simple: China FM. Understanding it, not so much for non-speakers of Mandarin: China FM’s target audience is the community of 171,906 Chinese nationals who live in the Madrid region.

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]]>Inma Flores<![CDATA[Lovable pests? Badajoz wonders what to do with all its geese]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/21/inenglish/1521626988_226377.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/21/inenglish/1521626988_226377.htmlThu, 22 Mar 2018 09:52:26 +0000In 2015, around 40 geese showed up at a new park located along the Guadiana River in the western Spanish city of Badajoz. In 2016 the population expanded, in 2017 it exploded, and this year nobody knows what to do with the geese anymore, because there are already 500 of them. And many more are no doubt on the way, with the arrival of breeding season.

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]]>M.Viejo<![CDATA[A portrait of Spain’s new poor: “I’ve never bought clothes for my son”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/04/inenglish/1491312763_357190.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/04/inenglish/1491312763_357190.htmlWed, 05 Apr 2017 06:49:51 +0000That was 2009, the year Ibu was born and the year she lost her job as a construction site supervisor. With it, went a monthly salary of €2,000. It was a job she had gone to college to study for.

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]]>Monica Torres<![CDATA[“My mother thanked my brother when he killed my dad”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/03/inenglish/1488530021_189440.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/03/inenglish/1488530021_189440.htmlFri, 03 Mar 2017 10:14:51 +0000“She called me at 5.15am. It was a call that, sadly, I had been expecting for many years. But I thought it would be the other way around, to tell me that my father had murdered my mother.” The 38-year-old brother is being held in custody while the case is being investigated.

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]]>Álbum familiar<![CDATA[Zetta: The Spanish answer to the iPhone that was really made in China]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/17/inenglish/1476699211_743956.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/17/inenglish/1476699211_743956.htmlTue, 18 Oct 2016 13:11:46 +0000In April 2014, three men in their early thirties – two Spaniards and a Chinese national – got together and decided to create “the first cellphone from Extremadura.”

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]]>Web de Zetta<![CDATA[The weekend Instagram gave my account to Andrés Iniesta]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/21/inenglish/1437490113_675410.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/21/inenglish/1437490113_675410.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2015 08:09:53 +0000@ainiesta is aged 35, and aside from being a graphic designer, he is a dad who likes to take photographs of his children, of Madrid, and of what he’s about to eat so that he can send them to friends and family via his account on Instagram, which he opened in 2010. But on Friday, without warning, the social network closed his profile.

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]]><![CDATA[Spain’s rockers rally to help boy wonder guitarist pay music school]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/06/inenglish/1436168168_698343.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/06/inenglish/1436168168_698343.htmlMon, 06 Jul 2015 08:35:02 +0000Aged just 15, Pedro González opened the door to one of Madrid’s best music stores. Around 80 guitars, electric and acoustic, were hanging on the walls. He walked straight over to a 1955 Gibson valued at $18,000 and reputedly once owned by jazz legend Kenny Burrell, sat down on a stool and began playing a few chords. The owner of the shop, Israel Domínguez, turned round and said: “The kid can play, right?”

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]]><![CDATA[“The terrorists were two meters away from me!”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/19/inenglish/1426752983_786823.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/19/inenglish/1426752983_786823.htmlThu, 19 Mar 2015 08:21:16 +0000“I thought they were rockets. I looked out the door and the terrorists were there, three or four, I’m not sure. And so I ran out, went up the stairs of the Bardo Museum, saw a door, and I entered. There was a balcony and I took cover there with more tourists. The terrorist was two meters from me!”

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]]>Perfil de Facebook<![CDATA[A transsexual’s Christian odyssey]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/04/inenglish/1423052463_633441.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/04/inenglish/1423052463_633441.htmlThu, 05 Feb 2015 16:24:39 +0000Diego was born a girl. He came into the world 47 years ago in Plasencia, a city of 45,000 people in the western Spanish province of Cáceres, but with a body opposite to the one he has now: incompatible, a rival, an enemy even; the torso of a female in the mind of a male – transsexual.

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]]><![CDATA[Outbreak of mumps in Madrid sees more than 1,300 infections since start of year]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/05/inenglish/1373023520_568757.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/05/inenglish/1373023520_568757.htmlFri, 05 Jul 2013 12:05:09 +0000The Madrid region is in the midst of a serious outbreak of mumps. More than 1,300 people, most of them youngsters, have been infected with the virus since the year began - that's 3.43 times the number of cases seen in the same period in 2012.

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