They feel disenchanted with PSOE, the center left-wing party of which Mr. Zapatero is the leader and some of them have decided to vote Izquierda Unida (IU), the main left-wing party.
Walter Veltroni | Posted 01.09.2012
One thing is certain: Mr. Berlusconi's parabola of success is near the end, a parabola which has hovered over Italy for years damaging it. His announced resignation is a sign of defeat.
AP | By CIARAN GILES | Posted 01.04.2012
MADRID -- Campaigning started Friday for Spain's Nov. 20 general elections with a new poll indicating Spaniards will severely punish the governing Soc...
Marie Mertens and Rosa Pascual | Posted 01.04.2012
In 2004, people celebrated the end of a conservative government. Now, eight years and two socialists' terms later, opinion polls show that women and young people will celebrate the end of a President who they feel betrayed them.
AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.26.2011
MADRID — Spain's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Monday, setting the stage for a Nov. 20 general election that is likely to focus on an e...
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 10.01.2011
Bullfighting in Spain, so fundamental to the country's identity but so vehemently opposed by many of its citizens, won a victory this week with a recl...
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 07.31.2011
Unemployment is a terrible scourge across much of the Western world. Almost 14 million Americans are jobless, and millions more are stuck with part-ti...
Posted 07.21.2011
By Tracy Rucinski and Fiona Ortiz MADRID - Tens of thousands of Spaniards angry over joblessness protested for a sixth day on Friday in cities ...
AP | HAROLD HECKLE | Posted 06.02.2011
MADRID — Spain's embattled prime minister announced Saturday he will not seek re-election at general elections in 2012 as his country grapples w...
AP | JORGE GARMA | Posted 06.02.2011
BILBAO, Spain — Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Spain's troubled Basque region Saturday, calling for the government to legalize a ne...
Posted 05.25.2011
There must be something in the agua in Spain to make all of their politicians so stylish. We know you love Princess Letizia, we recently introduced yo...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
I happened to be in Madrid last week on the day Spain was downgraded. It was portrayed by the media as a catastrophic situation. Now is not the time for over dramatization.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating on Friday, saying the government's efforts to reduce debt will weigh on economic growth in comi...
AP | DEBORAH SEWARD | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annu...
New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama has decided not to attend a United States-European Union summit scheduled for Madrid in May, and European Union officials found out ab...
New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011
This past September, when nearly all the world's leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this m...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 05.25.2011
MOGADISHU, Somalia — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish traw...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011
When Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's daughters Laura, 16, and Alba, 13, were photographed last week, it looked like the teenage ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the "world's oldest blogger" and who gained a global following on the Internet, died today at the ag...
Times Online | Charles Bremner in Paris | Posted 05.25.2011
The US President is weak, the Spanish leader is dim, the German Chancellor is clinging on to France's coat-tails and the head of the European Commissi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Oh, snap, y'all! Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is WARRING, people! And not just with tearful towheaded turf taker Glenn Beck. No, no! O'Reilly has heard...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is in Chile to attend a summit of leaders from Latin America and Europe. Biden flew to Chile...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Vice President Biden is currently in Chile for the Progressive Governance Summit, where he will meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, UK Prim...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011
Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero became a quick internet star yesterday when he accidentally uttered the F word while giving a news conference with Rus...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
Hundreds of thousands of people Sunday attended an open-air Catholic mass in Madrid designed to promote family values in a country where the Socialist...
María Hervás and Guilherme Fogaça | Posted 01.18.2012