<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSat, 16 May 2026 21:46:15 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Dmitry Muratov, Russian journalist: ‘Putin has made a mockery of European politicians’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-28/dmitry-muratov-russian-journalist-putin-has-made-a-mockery-of-european-politicians.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-28/dmitry-muratov-russian-journalist-putin-has-made-a-mockery-of-european-politicians.htmlFri, 28 Nov 2025 14:07:37 +0000Dmitry Muratov, 64, speaks like someone who has just returned from a journey into an undesirable future that now casts a shadow over countries that once thought themselves immune. “I have to warn you that you are currently interviewing an enemy of the state,” says the Russian journalist.

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]]>Alan Pérez<![CDATA[The new life in Spain for the librarian who challenged Putin’s homophobia: ‘The sanctions against Russia affect ordinary people the most’]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2023-09-17/the-new-life-in-spain-for-the-librarian-who-challenged-putins-homophobia-the-sanctions-against-russia-affect-ordinary-people-the-most.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2023-09-17/the-new-life-in-spain-for-the-librarian-who-challenged-putins-homophobia-the-sanctions-against-russia-affect-ordinary-people-the-most.htmlSun, 17 Sep 2023 06:01:00 +0000The penetrating eyes of Vladimir Kosarevsky, 39, looked directly at the camera of the EL PAÍS photographer on February 24. The director of Moscow’s Anna Akhmatova Library, one of the most important in the Russian capital, had fled Russia after disobeying Vladimir Putin’s government order to destroy all books by LGBTQ+ authors, or those that mentioned homosexuality. He was approaching the end of the maximum period he could stay at the shelter that had welcomed him in A Coruña (northern Spain) and was about to be left out on the street. To make matters worse, he had been given a laughably late date for the appointment to process his claim for asylum: May 15, 2025. “I’ve been looking at that photo. My face shows fear and insecurity, I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. Today I feel that I am in a safe place and I have everything that can help me integrate smoothly here.” Six months later, Kosarevsky is celebrating. The NGO Accem has provided him with legal protection, psychological support, training, and most importantly, accommodation in a refugee apartment in Vigo. And he is especially happy these days: he has just been granted a work permit.

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]]>ÓSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Researchers seek algorithms that won’t destroy the planet: ‘ChatGPT’s energy consumption must be brutal’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-14/researchers-seek-algorithms-that-wont-destroy-the-planet-chatgpts-energy-consumption-must-be-brutal.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-14/researchers-seek-algorithms-that-wont-destroy-the-planet-chatgpts-energy-consumption-must-be-brutal.htmlSun, 14 May 2023 22:40:19 +0000One day in 2019, while reading a scientific article, a light bulb went off for researcher Verónica Bolón, an expert in artificial intelligence. “It said that training an AI language model emitted CO₂ equivalent to that of five cars over its lifetime. I was shocked. Artificial intelligence consumes a lot of energy as it learns, it’s no longer just when it is used, but until then I had never thought about it,” she recalls sitting in one of the rooms at the University of A Coruña’s Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC). She and seven other researchers (a total of four men and four women) form one of the teams in Spain that are currently searching for green algorithms; in other words, they are immersed in resolving the great paradox brought about by the boom in supercomputers, data traffic, the cloud and ChatGPT. “Artificial intelligence helps us to solve many problems, some of them derived from climate change, but at the same time it is part of the problem,” Bolón observes.

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]]><![CDATA[640,000 rapid coronavirus tests arrive in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-23/640000-rapid-coronavirus-tests-arrive-in-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-23/640000-rapid-coronavirus-tests-arrive-in-spain.htmlMon, 23 Mar 2020 08:01:26 +0000Rapid testing kits that will detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have now arrived in Spain, after the Spanish government spent days promising that they were on their way. A total of 640,000 testing kits, which will be distributed “fairly” between Spanish regions, have been acquired from China and South Korea.

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]]>Ziv Koren<![CDATA[Death of Spain’s Diego Bello in the Philippines: How the police version was debunked]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-11-23/death-of-spains-diego-bello-in-the-philippines-how-the-police-version-was-debunked.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-11-23/death-of-spains-diego-bello-in-the-philippines-how-the-police-version-was-debunked.htmlTue, 23 Nov 2021 08:51:26 +0000On January 8, 2020, when Diego Bello’s family and friends were told that the 32-year-old had died in a police shootout in the Philippines, nobody believed it. It was as if they were being told about a stranger. The surfer from Spain’s Galicia region had been living in Siargao since 2017, and had started several businesses on the island. But according to police, he was a drug lord – an accusation that rang false with all who knew him. Now a new investigation, triggered by the family’s protests and diplomatic pressure, has reached the same conclusion, and the three police officers who shot Bello have been charged with murder, perjury and falsifying evidence.

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]]><![CDATA[Spanish government to extend state of alarm until April 26]]>https://english.elpais.com/politics/2020-04-04/spanish-government-prepares-to-extend-state-of-alarm.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/politics/2020-04-04/spanish-government-prepares-to-extend-state-of-alarm.htmlSat, 04 Apr 2020 08:42:25 +0000Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Saturday that the government intends to extend the state of alarm, which was declared three weeks ago in a bid to slow the coronavirus outbreak, until April 26.

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]]><![CDATA[Cantabria confines all municipalities while Murcia, Galicia close bars and restaurants]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-11-04/cantabria-confines-all-municipalities-while-murcia-galicia-close-bars-and-restaurants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-11-04/cantabria-confines-all-municipalities-while-murcia-galicia-close-bars-and-restaurants.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2020 15:56:56 +0000As the second wave of the coronavirus continues to spread in Spain, the country’s regions are implementing restrictions in a bid to avoid their health systems from becoming overwhelmed. The latest governments to take action are Cantabria, Murcia and Galicia, who on Wednesday announced new measures ahead of a meeting of the Inter-territorial Health Committee, a gathering of regional health chiefs and the central Health Ministry.

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]]>OSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Life after lockdown in Galicia: Business (nearly) as usual]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-06-16/life-after-lockdown-in-galicia-business-nearly-as-usual.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2020-06-16/life-after-lockdown-in-galicia-business-nearly-as-usual.htmlTue, 16 Jun 2020 12:50:28 +0000Life in Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia continued much the same on Monday even though it was no longer under the state of alarm. The Galician regional government is the first to lift the extraordinary measure, which was implemented by the central government in mid-March in a bid to curb the coronavirus outbreak. But although it has entered the “new normality” one week before the official end of the state of alarm, some of the lockdown restrictions remain. Residents cannot travel outside of the region and face masks must still be worn if social-distancing measures cannot be respected.

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]]>OSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[‘El Chicle,’ killer of Madrid teenager Diana Quer, given life sentence]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/17/inenglish/1576588136_492817.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/17/inenglish/1576588136_492817.htmlTue, 17 Dec 2019 13:21:49 +0000The provincial court of A Coruña in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region today sentenced José Enrique Abuín Gey to the Spanish equivalent of life imprisonment for the murder of Madrid teenager Diana Quer. After an 11-day trial and three-and-a-half days of deliberation, on November 30 a jury found Abuín – better known by the nickname “El Chicle” – guilty of murder, sexual assault, and abduction.

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]]>Xoán Rey<![CDATA[New election, new strategy: Spain’s center-right parties change their message]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/07/inenglish/1570432888_983235.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/07/inenglish/1570432888_983235.htmlMon, 07 Oct 2019 09:46:10 +0000As Spaniards gear up for a repeat national election following months of parliamentary stalemate, political parties are redesigning their campaign strategies – some very noticeably so.

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]]>David fernández<![CDATA[The mystery of the blue shark sightings in Galicia]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/03/inenglish/1567500504_279393.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/03/inenglish/1567500504_279393.htmlThu, 05 Sep 2019 07:11:17 +0000They measure around half a meter and slice through the water with an alarming speed, bringing up memories of movie scenes where the characters scream out in panic as they are attacked by sharks. Yet these small creatures are, in fact, fearful and harmless.

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]]><![CDATA[Why Spain has become a nightmare for the endangered turtledove]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/08/20/inenglish/1566306468_977678.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/08/20/inenglish/1566306468_977678.htmlWed, 21 Aug 2019 07:29:05 +0000Almost two million European turtledoves fly every year over the Iberian Peninsula on their migratory route to Sub-Saharan Africa, where they sit out the European winter after rearing their chicks. But recently, their flight across Spain has turned into a nightmare due to the total absence of measures protecting their numbers, as laid out by the European Commission in a case it recently opened against Spain.

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]]><![CDATA[Spanish regions forced to make budget cuts as political deadlock continues]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/08/13/inenglish/1565681206_252351.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/08/13/inenglish/1565681206_252351.htmlTue, 13 Aug 2019 08:34:45 +0000Although a sustained economic recovery ended Spain’s era of austerity around five years ago, the prolonged political deadlock is now threatening to bring back the budget cuts.

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]]><![CDATA[Elderly Spanish couple end up sleeping in park after being evicted from home]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/26/inenglish/1537962955_679387.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/26/inenglish/1537962955_679387.htmlWed, 26 Sep 2018 15:36:25 +0000On September 18, an elderly Spanish couple were evicted from their home in Oviedo in Asturias. They left all their belongings in the flat save for “a few things,” which they took with them to a park in the city. No one knew their whereabouts. For the next two nights, the couple, aged 74 and 72, slept on a park bench.

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]]>WIKIPEDIA<![CDATA[Galician asylum under review for mistreating patients]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/30/inenglish/1532951489_819893.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/30/inenglish/1532951489_819893.htmlTue, 31 Jul 2018 06:44:47 +0000The Conxo psychiatric hospital in Santiago de Compostela has inmates who have languished in its impersonal rooms for over 50 years. Rehabilitation is not something on their minds. Opened in 1885 by the Church, which admitted two priests as its first patients, Conxo is a throwback to the era when patients were sectioned for life, a practice Spain tried to end 30 years ago.

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]]><![CDATA[Five years on, Galicia train crash shines spotlight on security of Spain’s rail network]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/24/inenglish/1532418197_112660.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/24/inenglish/1532418197_112660.htmlTue, 24 Jul 2018 09:25:09 +0000It was a 16-page report completed on January 16, 2016 by a railroad expert named Christopher Carr in the French city of Valenciennes that began debunking the Spanish government’s story about the train crash of July 24, 2013 that killed 80 people near Santiago de Compostela in Spain’s deadliest railway accident.

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]]><![CDATA[A brand new high-speed AVE train station for Lugo… that can’t be used]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/05/04/inenglish/1525436896_614996.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/05/04/inenglish/1525436896_614996.htmlMon, 07 May 2018 13:18:10 +0000Back in Spain’s boom times, when housing developments and industrial parks were being planned all over the country, the O Páramo municipality in Lugo (Galicia), which counts on fewer than 1,500 residents, was given the great news that Spain’s high-speed AVE rail network would be coming to town. With the Popular Party (PP) in government, the Public Works Ministry decided in 2002 to build a new train station in O Páramo as part of the promised line between Ourense and Lugo, the first station in the town’s history, replacing the one in neighboring A Pobra de San Xiao, in Láncara.

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]]><![CDATA[A death foretold at Galicia’s coastal “Cathedral”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/10/inenglish/1523359639_300167.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/10/inenglish/1523359639_300167.htmlWed, 11 Apr 2018 08:39:50 +0000“Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit As Catedrais,” says geologist Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní. “The fact there’s only been one fatality is incredibly lucky, but that’s not to say this won’t change.”

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[Norwegian girl shipwrecked in Galicia returns 70 years later]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/19/inenglish/1521468672_207205.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/19/inenglish/1521468672_207205.htmlTue, 20 Mar 2018 09:59:12 +0000Galicia has a long history of shipwrecks, but even then, the story of Arnhild Utheim stands out in the collective memory. On December 31, 1948, a child was washed ashore on a beach in Cape Silleiro, in the northwestern Spanish town of Baiona. The soldiers who found her there couldn’t understand what she was saying: the 10-year-old emerged from the raging sea speaking Norwegian. Arnhild had been traveling on the Thalassa, a 28-meter-long yacht, with her entire family and a dozen more people. They had been on their way to the Galapagos Islands when the hull split in two after hitting the underwater rocks of Ponta do Lobo. Everyone but her was killed.

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]]>ALBA SOTELO<![CDATA[The Galician outreach scheme trying to combat the scourge of loneliness]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/05/inenglish/1517834770_962551.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/05/inenglish/1517834770_962551.htmlWed, 07 Feb 2018 07:45:27 +0000Rosa became a widow last August, and ever since then, an all-pervading silence has weighed heavily on her shoulders. Only a single daily phone call from a friend, at 9pm, helps to assuage her sense of loss. One of the last inhabitants of an ever-shrinking village in the Betanzos municipality (La Coruña), she rarely comes into contact with anyone else apart from when she gets this call. “We chat for about half an hour. We never gossip, but I try to say things that make her laugh,” says Pilar, Rosa’s phone buddy, and one of the volunteers with the Aberta Family project, created by the Franciscan religious order in Galicia to try to combat the epidemic of loneliness that the region is suffering.

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[How corruption has scarred the Spanish environment]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/01/03/inenglish/1514973958_997539.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/01/03/inenglish/1514973958_997539.htmlWed, 03 Jan 2018 12:00:36 +0000Monte Neme is a magical place for the residents of the Costa da Morte (Death Coast) in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region. Legends and archeological finds document the existence of witches covens, while the site also offers stunning views of the coast.

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]]><![CDATA[“You turn on the tap one day and suddenly nothing comes out”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/11/inenglish/1512994920_609735.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/11/inenglish/1512994920_609735.htmlMon, 11 Dec 2017 13:41:55 +0000The region of Galicia in Spain’s northwest is famous for its mists and rain. But a prolonged drought is hitting farmers hard, while regional authorities are eyeing dramatic measures including the diversion of rivers to ensure urban water supplies are guaranteed.

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[Last call for the Franco family to return figures from the Portal of Glory]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/30/inenglish/1509358120_457691.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/30/inenglish/1509358120_457691.htmlMon, 06 Nov 2017 14:58:53 +0000The figures of Abraham and Isaac were carved into the famous Portal of Glory in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral at the end of the 12th century as fixtures of what came to be considered the artistic highpoint of the place of worship. Painstakingly chiseled by the medieval sculptor Master Mateo and his workshop, the Portal consists of 200 such Romanesque-style sculptures and has largely remained intact, but the Old Testament’s most famous father-and-son duo have been shunted from pillar to post since the 16th century, ending up in the hands of Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco in 1960 and remaining part of the family’s estate to this day.

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]]><![CDATA[‘Fall from hell’ in Galicia as fires lay waste to region]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/17/inenglish/1508231214_008450.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/17/inenglish/1508231214_008450.htmlTue, 17 Oct 2017 12:16:46 +0000The outbreaks have caused panic in the urban area of Vigo, a city on the Atlantic coast, devouring houses, industrial buildings, cars, and natural areas. On Monday rain, wind and a drop in temperatures calmed the fires in Pontevedra province, but the battle lines moved to the bordering provinces of Lugo and Ourense.

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]]>Brais Lorenzo<![CDATA[Four dead as wildfires ravage northwestern Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/16/inenglish/1508138852_957190.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/16/inenglish/1508138852_957190.htmlMon, 16 Oct 2017 10:12:19 +0000Four people have died in an outbreak of wildfires that have been ravaging Galicia, in northwestern Spain, since Friday. The situation remained critical on Monday, with 105 active fires and 16 localities at serious risk of being engulfed by the flames.

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]]>Lavandeira jr<![CDATA[“I'm a pilgrim. Will you shout me a drink?”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/15/inenglish/1502782144_363119.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/15/inenglish/1502782144_363119.htmlTue, 15 Aug 2017 08:00:20 +0000Bar owners in the city of Santiago de Compostela in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region say the city, which is a major pilgrimage site, is full of tourists who are trying to cut costs wherever possible. In some cases, pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago (known in English as the Way of St James) even ask for the drinks to be on the house.

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[Spanish government to send Civil Guard to man airport security checks]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/11/inenglish/1502435886_279709.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/11/inenglish/1502435886_279709.htmlFri, 11 Aug 2017 11:16:07 +0000The partial strikes by security staff at Barcelona’s El Prat airport this week that have led to long delays for passengers are now threatening to spread to other airports throughout Spain.

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]]>MASSIMILIANO MINOCRI<![CDATA[The silent but deadly trail of the Asian hornet in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/31/inenglish/1496232894_586922.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/31/inenglish/1496232894_586922.htmlThu, 01 Jun 2017 07:06:20 +0000Honeybees are a gourmet dish to the Asian hornet, yet 70% of all crops for human consumption depend on the bees’ pollination work, says Greenpeace.

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]]><![CDATA[How this village ended up with the cheapest electricity in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/15/inenglish/1494850531_639751.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/15/inenglish/1494850531_639751.htmlTue, 16 May 2017 06:17:11 +0000“It's a question of social justice,” says Mayor Manuel Requeijo, from the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) political party. “Until now, the residents haven’t benefited at all from the energy being produced here, despite the fact that they were putting up with the noise and the visual impact of the windmills. The profits went entirely to the energy companies, which don't even have a tax base in Galicia.”

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]]>OSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Will the Diana Quer mystery ever be solved?]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/21/inenglish/1492756747_455947.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/21/inenglish/1492756747_455947.htmlFri, 21 Apr 2017 07:09:26 +0000The disappearance of the 18-year-old madrileña while she was returning from local fiestas in A Pobra do Caramiñal, in the northwestern Galician province of A Coruña, in the early hours of August 22, 2016 will continue, for now, to be completely shrouded in mystery.

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]]><![CDATA[Meet the women behind Galicia’s first brand of “feminist” milk]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/09/inenglish/1483970682_362962.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/09/inenglish/1483970682_362962.htmlTue, 10 Jan 2017 08:07:28 +0000“The supermarkets need to know that we are here and that, like many men, we are running the show at a lot of farms,” says Pardellas. “We need a symbolic brand because as female farmers, we are usually shut away in the stables and no one recognizes our work in the outside world.”

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[The Galician cousin of Fidel Castro: “It had to happen some day”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/28/inenglish/1480317507_870929.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/28/inenglish/1480317507_870929.htmlMon, 28 Nov 2016 08:31:51 +0000Her and Victoria, a first cousin of Castro’s, but whose memory has been lost to illness, are the closest relatives to Fidel left in this Galician municipality of 2,700 inhabitants. It was here, in 1875, that his father, Ángel Castro Argiz, was born. He was a farmer from Láncara, who emigrated to Cuba at the age of 17 and managed to make his fortune on the Caribbean island. Manuela, who often speaks of her family connection with the communist icon with the other residents of the home, explains that she did not have much contact with him, but recalls that her father “spoke well” of his parents. She did bond with Álex, one of the Castro’s children, who visited Láncara and whom she saw break down in tears of emotion when he met her.

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]]>ÓSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Galicia produces the most exclusive seafood in the world]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/03/inenglish/1470227675_405812.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/03/inenglish/1470227675_405812.htmlTue, 09 Aug 2016 07:21:21 +0000Ultrapure water, anti-stress prescriptions and homegrown algae are some of the pampering techniques used to rear exquisite abalone – a green and blue shellfish also known as ear shells or sea snails whose size matters but whose price does not, when sampled by the seafood connoisseurs on the other side of the world.

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]]>ÒSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Spanish city introduces basic income for vulnerable families]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/14/inenglish/1465897502_921512.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/14/inenglish/1465897502_921512.htmlThu, 16 Jun 2016 13:47:03 +0000At a time when half of Spain’s four million unemployed receive no welfare payment from the state, the Spanish city of A Coruña has taken the initiative in providing vulnerable families with a basic income.

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]]>Cabalar<![CDATA[Galicia airfield to become €55-million drone research center]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/13/inenglish/1444737129_796977.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/13/inenglish/1444737129_796977.htmlWed, 14 Oct 2015 08:14:23 +0000An airfield built by the Nazis in 1943 in Castro de Rei, Lugo province, because of its strategic location near the sea will become one of Spain’s largest drone research centers for private industry, according to officials involved in the project.

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]]>Óscar Corral<![CDATA[Terminally ill Galician girl Andrea dies after four days off life support]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/09/inenglish/1444390475_894081.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/09/inenglish/1444390475_894081.htmlFri, 09 Oct 2015 12:02:23 +0000Andrea, the terminally ill child whose parents battled to give her a dignified death, passed away on Friday at Santiago’s Hospital Clínico.

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]]>Lavandeira jr<![CDATA[Why are the shellfish in Galicia’s estuaries dying off?]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/14/inenglish/1442239035_112828.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/14/inenglish/1442239035_112828.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2015 16:47:40 +0000What happened in the waters of Galicia’s great shellfish basin in April 2012 baffled even the most knowledgeable experts among Arousa’s seafaring community.

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]]>óscar corral<![CDATA[“This is carte blanche for the mismanagement of another disaster”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/13/inenglish/1384360141_141270.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/13/inenglish/1384360141_141270.htmlWed, 13 Nov 2013 16:33:26 +0000“Reparatory justice has not been done,” said the lawyer for Nunca Máis, the social platform that emerged from the black tide of oil that was disgorged by the Prestige in November 2002. Pedro Trepat did not attempt to hide his disappointment after an A Coruña judge absolved the captain of the stricken vessel, the chief engineer, and the head of the Merchant Marine at the time of the disaster, as well as the Popular Party administration of former Prime Minister José María Aznar. Perat stated the ruling is “unsatisfactory and incoherent” due to the justification of the actions of José Luis López Sors, the head of the Merchant Marine, which the court said was based on “a more than sufficient technical appraisal.” Perat argued that this was not demonstrated during the trial.

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]]>ULY MARTÍN<![CDATA[Search continues for evidence linking parents to murder of 12-year-old]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/26/inenglish/1380197943_537092.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/26/inenglish/1380197943_537092.htmlThu, 26 Sep 2013 12:23:11 +0000The divorced parents of a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia at the weekend were taken in handcuffs to the apartment of the girl’s mother on Thursday morning. The arrival of the pair, who are the main suspects in the ongoing murder inquiry, caused a stir in the neighborhood, with some onlookers shouting insults at the former couple. The Civil Guard took them to the property to continue their search for evidence.

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]]><![CDATA[Body of 12-year-old girl found in Galician countryside]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/22/inenglish/1379872025_407291.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/22/inenglish/1379872025_407291.htmlSun, 22 Sep 2013 17:49:25 +0000The body of a 12-year-old girl was discovered by walkers Sunday in woodland in Cacheiras, in the Teo district outside of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. There was “evidence” of violence in the case, investigators said, but she had apparently not been sexually assaulted. The girl’s adoptive parents had reported her missing a few hours earlier.

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]]>OSCAR CORRAL<![CDATA[Rail network heads to face judge over Santiago train disaster]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/10/inenglish/1378820946_243144.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/10/inenglish/1378820946_243144.htmlTue, 10 Sep 2013 13:57:47 +0000The judge investigating the Santiago train crash, in which 79 people were killed, has called on three top railway officials to appear before him for questioning as formal suspects in his judicial proceedings, judicial sources said Tuesday.

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]]><![CDATA[“I had to go at 80km/h but I’m going at 190”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/26/inenglish/1374840422_829665.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/26/inenglish/1374840422_829665.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 12:09:15 +0000At 8.41pm on Wednesday night, when the Alvia intercity train headed from Madrid to Ferrol was travelling at 190km/h, a warning signal went off in the driver’s compartment. It was to tell the operator, Francisco José Garzón, that he should reduce his speed to 80km/h before the train of two engines and eight carriages took a sharp curve.

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]]>STRINGER/SPAIN<![CDATA[Supreme Court dismisses case against former Cabinet minister]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/18/inenglish/1374173184_716814.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/18/inenglish/1374173184_716814.htmlThu, 18 Jul 2013 18:51:21 +0000The Supreme Court has dismissed a case against former Socialist Cabinet minister José Blanco for influence-peddling in the awarding of a license to a businessman friend of his.

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]]>Kiko Huesca<![CDATA[Documents relating to smuggler no longer exist, says Galician premier]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/16/inenglish/1368719201_242377.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/16/inenglish/1368719201_242377.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 15:55:26 +0000The exact details of the relationship between the Galician regional premier, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and convicted smuggler Marcial Dorado may never come to light. Since it was revealed that the pair were friends in the 1990s, and that they had even spent vacations together, Feijóo has been slowly releasing the information demanded by the opposition regarding the subsidies and public contracts that Dorado’s companies were awarded by the regional administration.

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]]>Lavandeira jr<![CDATA[Ten years on, environmental disaster finally reaches A Coruña courthouse]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/10/17/inenglish/1350479700_402049.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/10/17/inenglish/1350479700_402049.htmlWed, 17 Oct 2012 13:34:57 +0000Nine years of pre-trial investigation are reflected in 230,315 pages, 25 boxes filled with evidence and 1,500 plaintiffs (originally more than 2,000) grouped into 55 separate accusations.

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]]>PAUL HANNA<![CDATA[PP’s “champion” cause turns against it]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/08/inenglish/1331234756_056694.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/08/inenglish/1331234756_056694.htmlThu, 08 Mar 2012 19:31:58 +0000The government corruption case that broke early last year in Galicia, in which the Popular Party (PP) tried to ensnare former Socialist Public Works Minister José Blanco, appears to have entangled two of the conservative party’s own figures.

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