Colombian drug lord shot in Spain
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- Colombian drug lord shot in Spain
- Heavy Snow Shuts Airport Roads In Spain
- Spain proposes restoration of Nina replica
- Jobless hits 12-year record in Spain
- ‘The Uncrowned King’ by Kenneth Whyte
Colombian drug lord shot in Spain
BBC News UK
Police said that a gunman entered his room and fired four shots at Vargas who was being treated for lung disease. Vargas 59 was the head of the Caqueta cartel which ran vast cocaine laboratories in Colombia in the 1980s. After serving a prison sentence in Colombia he was arrested in Spain in 2006 and was on bail awaiting trial. The Spanish authorities stopped him for carrying a fake Venezuelan passport and he was later charged in connection with a 500kg (1100lb) cocaine haul. His trial was delayed and he was admitted to the Doce de ctubre hospital for treatment in early January. Low profileWitnesses say two people entered Vargas’ room on the fifth floor of the hospital. ne man took out a pistol with a silencer and fired four shots at Vargas who was asleep.
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Heavy Snow Shuts Airport Roads In Spain
AHN
Redistribution republication. syndication rewriting or broadcast is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN. –>AHN Staff Madrid Spain (AHN) – The main airport in Madrid Spain stopped operations for nearly five hours on Friday as an unexpected heavy snow fell and prevented safe flights. It was the first time flights were disrupted at the Barajas Airport where more than 1200 planes take off and land daily. There were no inbound and outbound flights from noon to 4:40 p. as visibility was poor and runways could not be immediately cleared of snow according to airport officials.
Spain proposes restoration of Nina replica
Houston Chronicle United States
html CRPUS CHRISTI Texas — Spain’s consulate is floating a proposal to restore a replica of Christopher Columbus’ ship the Nina. The wooden vessel originally part of the replica fleet along with the Pinta and Santa Maria docked in Corpus Christi in 1993. The other two were badly damaged in a barge crash the following year. In return for sharing the costs of the restoration with Corpus Christi financiers would tow the Nina to Kemah on Galveston Bay to display during a sailing race in May the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported in Friday’s editions. The city would pay the cost of the wood and iron while the unnamed financiers would cover the cost of the repairs according to the proposal which also calls for $10000 from local museum supporters.
Jobless hits 12-year record in Spain
Xinhua China
8 (Xinhua) — The number of jobless people in Spain stood at 3. 13 million in December 2008 a record since the country began to collate information about the unemployed in 1996. In 2008 the country had 999400 more people without work than in 2007 an increase of 46. 9 percent the labor ministry said on Thursday. The service and construction sectors were among the worst hit with 492000 and 307000 out of work respectively.
‘The Uncrowned King’ by Kenneth Whyte
San Francisco Chronicle USA
Whyte denies that Hearst’s endorsement of Bryan had anything to do with the Hearst family’s silver mining interests and that is probably correct. But Hearst also calculated that the uniqueness among city papers of support for Bryan would help increase the Journal’s and the Examiner’s circulation. As for the second event Whyte is entirely unapologetic about Hearst’s role in promoting a war against Spain. ther historians have simply got it wrong; they have refused to credit Hearst’s outrage at the rape of Cuba and indeed have mocked it. Hearst’s campaign for war says Whyte had nothing to do with his desire to improve newspaper sales or to draw attention to himself. Rather Hearst acted as a humanitarian who was determined to rouse Americans against Spain’s efforts to exterminate the Cuban people. Perhaps Hearst was ahead of his time in urging the United States to intervene against genocide comparable to modern interventions against brutality in places like Bosnia and East Timor.
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