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Operation Araña
Operation Araña (Spanish: ''Operación Araña'') is the codename given to the 2014-17 Civil Guard operation in Spain against the defense of terrorism on social media, mainly on Facebook and Twitter. The name ''Araña'' means Spider. Until now, it has consisted on four phases: *''Operation Araña I'' (April 2014), before the 2014 European Parliamentary Election. *''Operation Araña II'' (November 2014). *''Operation Araña III'' (May 2015), concurrent with the 2015 Spanish regional elections. Alfredo Remírez, a Twitter user arrested during this phase, was sentenced to prison for reiteration of defense of terrorism on social media on 1 November 2017. He was imprisoned on 4 November, three days later. *''Operation Araña IV'' (April 2016), before the 2016 Spanish general election. Criticism Since its start, the operation has been heavily criticised. Amnesty International, on their 2016-2017 report, mentioned the operation among the cases of unjustified restrictions of freedom of inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Guard (Spain)
The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence. The role of the Ministry of Defence is limited except in times of war when the Ministry has exclusive authority. The corps is colloquially known as the ' (reputable). In annual surveys, it generally ranks as the national institution most valued by Spaniards, closely followed by other law enforcement agencies and the armed forces. It has both a regular national role and undertakes specific foreign peacekeeping missions and is part of the European Gendarmerie Force. As a national gendarmerie force, the Civil Guard was modelled on the French National Gendarmerie and has many similarities. As part of its daily duties, the Civil Guard patrols and investigates crimes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Def Con Dos
Def Con Dos (meaning DEFense CONdition TWO) is a rap rock band from Madrid, Spain. History and style Greatly influenced by hip hop bands Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, and Run D.M.C., and rock band Siniestro Total, they started rapping over hip hop bases created by producer Julián Hernández (musician and singer of Siniestro Total). In their '' Segundo Asalto'' tape (1989), the sound still was basically hip hop, but they started using rock guitars. Texts in their lyrics and in the manifestos enclosed with their records are highly offensive and complex, with many references to pop culture: pop music, Spanish folklore, news, publicity, cinema, literature and Spanish and American comics. ''Armas pal pueblo'' (1994) was probably the first album made in Spain with a Spanish version of the ''Parental advisory: Explicit lyrics'' label on the cover. Partly due to their polemical texts, DCD did not get much coverage from mainstream media in their beginnings, with the exception of some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Spain
Incumbents *Monarch: Felipe VI *Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy Regional presidents * Andalusia: Susana Diaz * Aragón: Javier Lambán * Asturias: Javier Fernandez * Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol * Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu * Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle * Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla * Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page * Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera * Catalonia: Artur Mas (until 11 January), Carles Puigdemont (starting 11 January) * Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara * Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo * La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros * Community of Madrid: Cristina Cifuentes * Region of Murcia: Pedro Antonio Sánchez * Navarre: Uxue Barkos * Valencian Community: Ximo Puig * Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas * Melilla: Juan José Imbroda Events *February 6 – 30th Goya Awards in Madrid *April 9-15 – 2016 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A in Jaca *15 May – After the crash between Lewis Hamilton and Nico R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Spain
Events of 2015 in Spain. Incumbents *Monarchy of Spain, Monarch: Felipe VI of Spain, Felipe VI *Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy Events *26 January - An F-16 Multirole Fighter, F-16 jet belonging to the Hellenic Air Force crashes in southern Spain during a NATO exercise, killing ten people and injuring 21. Deaths *5 January - Antonio Fuertes, 85, Spanish footballer (Valencia CF, Valencia, Elche CF, Elche). *7 January **José Arias, 92, Olympic alpine skier (Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics, 1948). **Ricardo Bueno Fernández, 74, politician, member of the Senate of Spain, Senate (1977–1979, 1993–2000) and Congress of Deputies (Spain), Congress of Deputies (2000–2004). *12 January - Germán Cobos, 87, actor *16 January - Pedro María Iguaran, 74, footballer (Real Sociedad). *29 January - Amparo Baró, 77, Spanish actress (''Siete mesas de billar francés''), cancer. *31 January - José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 In Spain
Events of 2014 in Spain Incumbents *Monarch: Juan Carlos I (abdicated 19 June), Felipe VI *Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy Events January * 3 January - the 75th anniversary of the Agencia EFE. *7 January - The infanta Cristina of Spain is charged by the judge hearing the Nóos case, with money laundering and tax crimes. * 11 January – About 110,000 people march peacefully through Bilbao, demanding Basque independence and freedom for more than 600 ETA prisoners. February * 20 February - 20: Statements made by actor Javier Bardem in Paris during the presentation of a documentary produced by him on the human rights situation in Western Sahara causes a diplomatic row between France and Morocco. March * 11 March - the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings * 22 March – 101 people are injured and 29 arrested after an anti-austerity march turns violent in Madrid. June * 2 June – King Juan Carlos announces his intention to abdicate, after nearly 39 years on the throne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Carrero Blanco
Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco (4 March 1904 – 20 December 1973) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as the Prime Minister of Spain and in various other high ranking offices in the regime until his assassination in a car bombing in December 1973. Upon graduating from the naval academy Carrero Blanco participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Rebel faction. He became one of the most prominent figures in the Francoist dictatorship's power structure and held throughout his career a number of high-ranking offices such as those of Undersecretary of the Presidency from 1941 to 1967 and Franco's deputy from 1967 to 1973. He also was the main drafter behind the 1947 Law of Succession to the Headship of the State. Franco handpicked him as his successor in the role of head of government, with Carrero thereby taking office in June 1973. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not the head of state, but rather the head of government, serving under either a monarch in a democratic constitutional monarchy or under a president in a republican form of government. In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head/owner of the executive power. In such systems, the head of state or their official representative (e.g., monarch, president, governor-general) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers. Under some presidential systems, such as South Korea and Peru, the prime minister is the leader or most senior member of the cabinet, not the head of government. In many systems, the prime minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. During this time period, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State (). The nature of the regime evolved and changed during its existence. Months after the start of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, Franco emerged as the dominant rebel military leader and was proclaimed head of state on 1 October 1936, ruling a dictatorship over the territory controlled by the Nationalist faction. The 1937 Unification Decree, which merged all parties supporting the rebel side, led to Nationalist Spain becoming a single-party regime under the FET y de las JONS. The end of the war in 1939 brought the extension of the Franco rule to the whole country and the exile of Republican institutions. The Francoist dictatorshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operación Ogro
The assassination of Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, also known by its code name Operación Ogro ( en, Operation Ogre), had far-reaching consequences within the politics of Spain. Admiral Carrero Blanco was killed in Madrid by the Basque separatist group ETA on 20 December 1973. The assassination is considered to have been the biggest attack against the Francoist State since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The death of Carrero Blanco had numerous political implications. By the end of 1973, the physical health of dictator Francisco Franco had declined significantly, and it epitomized the final crisis of the Francoist regime. Following Blanco's death, the most conservative sector of the Francoist State, known as the , wanted to influence Franco so that he would choose an ultraconservative as Prime Minister. Finally, he chose Carlos Arias Navarro, who originally announced a partial relaxation of the most rigid aspects of the Francoist State, but quickly retreated unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups
The First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups ( es, Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre, GRAPO) was a Spanish clandestine Marxist–Leninist group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Republican state. Besides its anti-capitalism, it is anti-imperialist, being strongly opposed to Spain's NATO membership. GRAPO's last attack was in 2006. After having been fairly active in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a dwindling number of its militants along with police actions allowed Spanish officials to claim a number of times to have disbanded the GRAPO after the remaining militants were captured. According to the Spanish police, GRAPO was disbanded after six of its militants were arrested in June 2007 but formally, the group has not announced its dissolution. GRAPO is included in the European Union's list of terrorist organisations. History GRAPO has its origins in the Organisation of Marxist–Leninists of Spain (OMLE), which dissolved itself in its first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ETA (separatist Group)
ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Homeland and Liberty"ETA BASQUE ORGANIZATION Encyclopaedia Britannica 20 October 2011 or "Basque Country and Freedom"), was an armed Basque nationalism, Basque nationalist and far left separatism, separatist organization in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country (in northern Spain and southwestern France). The group was founded in 1959 and later evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group engaged in a violent campaign of bombing, assassinations, and kidnappings in the Southern Basque Country and throughout Spanish territory. Its goal was gaining independence for the Basque Country. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Strawberry
Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt * César Award, a French film award Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar River, a river within the Magdalena Basin of Colombia * Cesar River, Chile * Cesar Department, Colombia Other uses * César (grape), an ancient red wine grape from northern Burgundy * French ship ''César'' (1768), ship of the line, destroyed 1782 * Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R), in Brazil * Cesar, a brand of dog food manufactured by Mars, Incorporated People with the given name * César (footballer, born May 1979), César Vinicio Cervo de Luca, Brazilian football centre-back * César (footballer, born July 1979), Clederson César de Souza, Brazilian football winger * César Alierta (born 1945), Spanish businessman * César Augusto Soares dos Reis Ribela (born 1995), Brazilian footballer * César A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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