Shuttered coal-fired plants not replaced by renewables
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
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Madrid denied hospital access to elderly with COVID-19
The scandal in Madrid over denial of hospital access to residents of care homes for the elderly at the height of the…
Spain retools to turn out desperately needed respirators
In the face of a critical shortage of respiratory ventilators in intensive care units (ICUs) across Spain, private and public entities are…
Gov’t tightens lockdown, closes all non-essential activity
? Health Ministry says intensive care units in 9 regions at or near breaking point ? Employers prohibited from sacking workers for…
Song becomes Spain’s anthem in fight against COVID-19
A song that first became a hit in Spain when released more than 30 years ago has gone viral through a video…
Sánchez centralizes control of fight against coronavirus
After a grueling seven-hour meeting of the government’s Council of Ministers executive cabinet, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced late Saturday a series…
Spain’s coronavirus crisis could last four or five months
Officials in Spain’s Health Ministry are now saying that the coronovirus epidemic in Spain will last anywhere from two to five months,…
United Left (IU) ejects Feminist Party over trans dispute
Spain’s Izquierda Unida party, the junior political partner of the left-wing, anti-austerity Unidas Podemos coalition, has voted to expel from its ranks…
Spanish Catholic women push for equality within church
Dozens of Catholic women’s groups have organized to hold rallies on Sunday March 1st in front of Spain’s principal Catholic cathedrals to…
Anti-eviction activists distressed after Iglesias meeting
Following a meeting Friday with Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, who is 2nd Vice President for Social Affairs in Spain’s new coalition…
NGO launches crowdfunding for LGBT migrant shelter
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to help save a Madrid shelter for LGBT asylum seekers from closure after organizers say it…
Guardia Civil see rise in poison, traps to kill animals
All over the world, animals are trapped, removed or killed both humanely and inhumanely. Many pests such as rats, bugs and birds…
Anticaps say ‘hasta luego’ to Podemos in Andalucía
After months of tension between the leadership of Podemos’ regional Andalucía affiliate and the party’s national leadership in Madrid, the two announced…
Ministry moves to quell VOX support within military
The Ministry of Defence has sacked the commander of a military base in Logroño in La Rioja province after the base hosted…
Protest decries ongoing healthcare decline in Andalucía
Some 20,000 protesters marched through Sevilla on Sunday, converging on the Plaza de España to rally against inaction in resolving bottlenecks and…
Protests as Murcia gov’t persists with parental veto plan
Hundreds of feminist, LGBT+ and union activists turned out to protest the Murcian regional government’s decision to push ahead with its policy…
McDonald’s bans plastic straws, vows 40% plastics cut
McDonald’s Spain has announced that as of 24th February it will no longer provide plastic straws to customers, part of its plan…
Mothers of stolen babies demand government action
Family members of babies taken from their mothers at birth in Spanish hospitals both during and after the Franco dictatorship protested Monday…
Sánchez to Davos: social justice, growth must co-exist
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez put forward a contrarian message Wednesday to the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — that social…
#VIDEO 300 feminists shout down ‘machista’ heckler
Some 300 women who gathered Monday in Santiago de Compostela’s Praza do Obradoiro to perform the global feminist anthem against gender violence…
#VIDEO Activist rebukes VOX leader on gender violence
In past years on the occasion of the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Madrid’s 57-member municipal council…
NGOs demand probe over Vox anti-immigrant videos
Seven Spanish non-governmental organizations have called on the government’s Fiscalia General attorney general’s office to investigate whether controversial election campaign videos produced…
Sánchez holds ground in debate in run-up to election
The nationally televised debate Monday night between the five leading candidates to become the next president of Spain saw the frontrunner, acting…
Families of ‘13 Rosas’ sue VOX leader for defamation
The families of 13 young Socialist women who were imprisoned, tortured and summarily executed by a Franquista firing squad four months after…
Cáritas campaign hopes to ‘put a face’ on homelessness
► Relief agency’s campaign wants public to look homelessness full in the face ► Agency estimates 40,000 homeless in Spain, with evictions…
One quarter of Spaniards at risk of poverty, exclusion
► 26.1% of Spaniards at risk of poverty, extreme poverty up first time in 3 years ► More men managing to leave…
Femen activists protest, pre-empt VOX anniversary rally
► Activists chain selves to arena gates to ‘close the door to fascism in Spain’ ► Protest includes slogans against fascism, VOX…
Gov’t, NGO link prostitution, human-trafficking, slavery
► Prostitution disproportionately impacts poor, marginalized migrant women ► Spain is #1 in Europe for prostitution, 18-25 yr olds using prostitutes on…
Campaigners seek to end calf-killing in ‘becerradas’
► PACMA denounces killing of five calves in ‘becerrada’ in Segovia province ► More than 100 municipalities nationwide allow similar killing of…
PACMA condemns Valencia’s ‘tiro y arrastre’ events
► City of Valencia subsidizes upcoming ‘pull-and-drag’ events in September ► Horses pushed, pulled, beaten, whipped to carry loaded wagons through sand…
Spanish teens develop app to protect women from harm
► Team of Madrid-area high school students develop ‘When&Where’ mobile app ► App to protect women, girls from assault reaches finals in…