Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Raquel Martinez VALLADOLID, Spain, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – Jesús Guerra, a volunteer at this week’s Fifth Global Microcredit Summit in this Spanish town, was nonplussed by the expensive gold watch sported by a banker from a developing country. "When I volunteered to help at the Summit [...]
The Poor Need Insurance Too
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Inés Benítez VALLADOLID, Spain, Nov 15, 2011 (IPS) – Poor families are well aware of the devastating effects of unforeseen expenses on their lives. Microinsurance, a recent microfinance tool, has the potential to limit their vulnerability and combat poverty, experts say. The death of a family member, [...]
SPAIN: ETA Announces End to 40 Years of Extortion
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By José Antonio Gurriarán MADRID, Apr 29, 2011 (IPS) – The Confebask business association in northern Spain reported that it received a letter from the armed Basque separatist group ETA, announcing the cancellation of "the revolutionary tax" that it has charged businesses over the last 40 years. Confebask [...]
Spain Backpedals on Renewable Energy
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Tito Drago MADRID, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Spain put the brakes on the use of clean energies to generate electricity, as the government approved an energy savings programme to cope with its large oil bill which affects its commitment to reduce non-renewable sources by 2020. José [...]
SPAIN: Wikileaks Revelations Put Pressure on Justice Officials
December 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Tito Drago MADRID, Dec 2, 2010 (IPS) – The highest authorities of Spain’s judicial system will have to explain to the Congress of Deputies their repeated refusals to bring U.S. soldiers to trial for the 2003 killing of journalist José Couso in Baghdad. The recent diplomatic cables [...]
Abolition of the Death Penalty – New ‘De Facto’ Millennium Goal
October 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By IPS Correspondents MADRID, Oct 7, 2010 (IPS) – Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announced Thursday the creation of an International Commission Against the Death Penalty, whose immediate goal is a global moratorium by 2015, to put an end to what he described as the "horror" [...]
Spain’s Renewable Energy Heads West
July 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Clarinha Glock* BARCELONA, Jul 22, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Plagued by Spain’s economic recession and subsidy cuts, renewable energy businesses are following the sun and wind to Latin America in search of profits. In 2009, the wind energy companies of the Madrid-based AEE (Asociación Empresarial Eólica) reached 1,274 [...]
Latin America, EU Express Unity in Face of Economic Crisis
May 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Tito Drago MADRID, May 18 (IPS) – The leaders of the 60 European Union, Latin American and Caribbean nations meeting in the capital of Spain agreed Tuesday that unity between the two regions is essential to weathering the global economic crisis. The summit’s host, socialist Prime Minister José [...]
Q&A: The Man Who Unearthed 200 Mass Graves in Spain
May 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Miren Gutiérrez interviews Spanish forensic Dr FRANCISCO ETXEBERRIA SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, May 12 (IPS) – Francisco Etxeberria’s work causes blisters and earns him animosity as well as admiration. He and his team of forensic experts, anthropologists, archaeologists and others have unearthed 200 mass graves, exhuming the remains of [...]
Argentina, an Example for Prosecuting Franco-Era Crimes?
April 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tito Drago MADRID, Apr 22 (IPS) – Argentina is an example for Spaniards to bear in mind as they investigate crimes committed during the 1939-1975 dictatorship of general Francisco Franco, says Emilio Silva, head of the Spanish Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory (ARMH). Silva took part in [...]
