Blog #Don Pablo

From the end of the Civil War in 1939 through to the demise of Franco's fascist dictatorship on his death in 1975, Spain was most definitely a 3rd-world country. Following Spain's return to being a monarchy in 1975 and, from 1977, a constitutional democracy, there was hope that things would improve. The borders opened and from 1986 Spain became a member of the European Union.

In a similar manner, “Mazón lunched while Valencia flooded”. Regional president Carlos Mazón enjoyed a three-hour lunch with a female journalist while floods were laying waste to the Valencia region. In a piece in the HuffPost journalist Rodrigo Carretero highlights the main points of an article in the Financial Times.