INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
nations.Within hours of that sporting triumph the mood soured, from nationalist Madrid to secessionist Barcelona, as images circulated of
the president of the Spanish soccer federation kissing a player at the awards ceremony
Nationwide the conversation turned from joy to dismay at how pervasive machismo remains in a country that has aggressively modernized, from
Hermoso, who had missed a penalty during the final match, and cupping her face with both hands in what he called a consensual consolation
El Pais, reported that Rubiales would step aside on Aug
But in front of an audience of mostly gray-haired men at an emergency assembly of his association, he took a different tack
His record was already tinged by scandal, but his behavior during the match was his undoing
On Monday the association will meet for an emergency meeting at 4 p.m
in Madrid to discuss the roadmap following his Rubiales
his crotch when the Spain scored its first goal
That he did it within close proximity of Queen Letizia was precisely the kind of optics that royal-loving conservatives trying to form a
had to stick around in Madrid to try and break the political impasse
in exile has emerged as a kingmaker able to keep Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, currently a caretaker, in power.The controversial
For traditionalists, Sanchez has caved too much to liberals and to secessionists seeking to tear Spain apart
The PP and its ally, the far-right group Vox, have called on Rubiales to resign but have also tried to draw a connecting thread to a
controversial law on sexual consent and its unintended consequences, which has seen convicts released early
national football team after the win
A few hours before he met with King Felipe on Aug
His government later pledged to do its best to oust him
Yet only a few days before the July 23 election, when polls showed he was losing, Sanchez told a radio interviewer about how his own male
One is deeply Catholic and traditionalist, and at times chauvinist
The other, the one international audiences see in Pedro Almodovar films, is radically progressive.This combination of both tradition and
subversion are in evidence when driving across hundreds of miles of arid countryside in Spain, when travelers can spot a 46-foot-tall black
This commercial billboard dates from the 1960s and taps into the collective imagination of a country that both reveres and loathes
