Spanish snapshots (VI)...

Yo!

Busy weeks lately here around Madrid... Still... Some time to observe the local environment and one of the worst aspects of life in Spain... This is a fascinating country, fun to live in, but that definitely has some room for improvements...

Politics & Media

I have never seen such blatant examples of biased media as in this country... Unbelievable the fact that ALL TVs, radios, newspapers are aligned with one of the main parties and stick to that religiously... There is not one media that can be considered unbiased... Concrete examples:

=> grudged right wing politicians still cling to the idea of ETA being somehow involved in the March 11th bombs;

=> Protests ranging from 300M to 2,3MM people (depending on how left or right wing is the source...)

etc.

Politics & terrorism

Unbelievable to my eyes how something like terrorism can divide and not unite an entire population... Unbelievable how even terrorism victims associations are politized and used as political throwing weapons... Here is an aspect where I think in Portugal we haven't dropped as low as these guys...

Politics & regions

Andalucia referendum for their "regional constitution"... 70% abstention rate! People don't give a damn regarding all this bullshit regarding splitting the country into it's "original" regions... All of this is about, as always, money and power for the political class...

National pride

In the middle of all these fights I think it is a paradox that...

- these guys are enjoying 3,5% sustainable growth for over 5 years in a row (although with the predictable drop in the housing market this might change...)

- Figures like Nadal, F. Alonso, even the national synchronized swimming team are elevated to the condition of national heroes...

Fascinating country...

Carpe Diem!

PS - Happy 100th post to myself!!! :)