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Mamen Mendizábal
María del Carmen Mendizábal García (born 15 January 1976) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter who has worked for the television channel LaSexta since 2006. She began her career at the national radio station Cadena SER as a journalist and presenter before moving into public television with Televisión Española in October 2004. Mendizábal joined the private television channel LaSexta in 2006 and has read the news and presented various programmes on the channel. She has won an ATV Award for Best Communicator of News Programmes, an Antena de Oro and the TP de Oro Award for Best News Presenter twice in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Biography On 15 January 1976, Mendizábal was born in Madrid. She was inspired to become a journalist by the likes of Oriana Fallaci, Rosa María Mateo, Rosa Montero and Maruja Torres. Mendizábal graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a journalism degree. Following the completion of her studies, she began her profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendizabal
Mendizabal or Mendizábal is a Basque surname meaning 'wide mountain'. It may refer to: * Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza (1893–1985), first female civil engineer in Mexico * Enrique Mendizabal (1918–2017), Olympic Shooter for Peru at the 1948 London Games *Eustakio Mendizabal (1944–1973), Basque separatist * Félix Mendizábal (1891–1959), Spanish athlete * Gabriel de Mendizabal Iraeta (1765–1838), general during the Napoleonic Wars * Guillermo Mendizábal (born 1954), retired Mexican footballer and manager * Horacio Mendizábal (1847–1871), Argentinian poet * Itziar Mendizabal (born 1981), ballet dancer * José María Álvarez Mendizábal (1891–1965), Spanish politician and lawyer * Joxe Mendizabal (born 1970), Basque musician *Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790–1853), Spanish economist and politician * Luis A. Aranberri Mendizabal "Amatiño" (born 1945), Basque media professional * Mamen Mendizábal (born 1976), Spanish television and radio journalist * Mariano Juari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iñaki Gabilondo
José Ignacio Gabilondo Pujol (born 19 October 1942), better known as Iñaki Gabilondo, is a Spanish journalist and broadcaster. He is one of Spain's best-known news anchors. Biography The second-born in a family of nine, Gabilondo studied Philosophy and Literature with Journalism at the University of Navarra. He started his career aged 21 at Radio Popular, which later became Cadena COPE. He stayed there until 1969, when he became the director of his local Radio San Sebastián, affiliated to the public Cadena SER. Two years later, he directed the news department of Cadena SER in Seville. In 1978 he directed and hosted ''Hora 25'' on Cadena SER in Madrid, until he became the TV news director of Televisión Española, the Spanish public TV network, two years later. After starting in January 1981, his first night in front of the cameras was during Antonio Tejero's '' coup d'etat'' on 23 February 1981. He soon started to host the 9pm edition of ''Telediario''. He became well-known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Spanish General Election
A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 9 March 2008, to elect the members of the 9th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 264 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. After four years of growing Two-party system, bipolarisation of Spanish politics, the election saw a record result for both ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and opposition People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), together obtaining more than 83% of the vote share—over 21 million votes—and 92% of the Congress seats. The PSOE under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero benefitted from tactical voting against the PP and emerged as the most-voted party just 7 seats short of an overall majority. On the other hand, Mariano Rajoy's PP saw an increase in its vote share and seat count but remained unable to overtake the Socialists. United Left (Spain), United Left (IU) had its worst general election performance ever with less than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (, ; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, vote of no confidence ousted his government. A member of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party, he served as the president of the People's Party from 2004 to 2018. Rajoy became prime minister in 2011 following the his party's landslide victory in that year's 2011 Spanish general election, general election, becoming the sixth president of the Spanish Government since Spanish transition to democracy, the restoration of democracy. The party lost its majority in the 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 general election, but after that election ended in deadlock, a 2016 Spanish general election, second election in 2016 enabled Rajoy to be reelected prime minister as head of a minority government. Rajoy was a minister under the José María Aznar administration, occupying different leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (; born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election and left office on 21 December 2011. Among the main actions taken by the Zapatero administration were the withdrawal of Spanish troops from the Iraq war, the increase of Spanish troops in Afghanistan; the idea of an Alliance of Civilizations; the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Spain; reform of abortion law; a peace negotiation attempt with ETA; the end of ETA terrorism; increase of tobacco restrictions; and the reform of various autonomous statutes, particularly the Statute of Catalonia. Biography Family background and early life José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid, Castile and León, to Juan Rodríguez y García-L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing politics, left-leaning Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangism, Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and Traditionalism (Spain), traditionalists led by a National Defense Junta, military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international Interwar period#Great Depression, political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a War of religion, religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and Republicanism, republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Republican faction (), also known as the Loyalist faction () or the Government faction (), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. The name Republicans () was mainly used by its members and supporters, while its opponents used the term ''Rojos'' (Reds) to refer to this faction due to its left-leaning ideology, including far-left communist and Anarchism in Spain, anarchist groups, and the support it received from the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, the Republicans outnumbered the Nationalists by ten-to-one, but by January 1937 that advantage had dropped to four-to-one. Participants Political groups Popular Front Nationalists =Basque= * Basque nationalism ** Basque Nationalist Party ** Basque Nationalist Action =Catalan= * Catalan nationalism ** Republican Left of Catalonia ** Acció Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voz De Galicia
''La Voz de Galicia'' () is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. ''La Voz'' is the newspaper with the highest circulation in Galicia and the eighth-highest circulation of the general-interest daily newspaper in Spain. It is written primarily in Spanish with Galician used in the cultural and opinion sections. The newspaper was founded in 1882 by Juan Fernández Latorre and is published in A Coruña A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ..., Galicia. The paper has a digital version available in Spanish and Galician. However, the latter version is an automatic translation, whilst the original articles are written exclusively in Spanish. HistoryIn 1993, the circulation of ''La Voz'' was 107,446 copies. The paper had a circulation of 111,000 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Villanueva
Cristina Villanueva Ramos (born 24 February 1976) is a Spanish news and sports journalist who works for LaSexta. She began her career covering various sports such as swimming, motorcycle racing and basketball for the state broadcaster Televisión Española from 1997 to 2004 before doing general newscasting on ''La 2 Noticias'' until 2006. Villanueva began newscasting for LaSexta in 2006 and has presented other programmes on the channel. Biography On 24 February 1976, Villanueva was born in Tiana, Province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She spent her childhood watching television documentaries at home; her mother did sewing at home and her father was self-taught. In 1998, Villanueva graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a degree in journalism. She began her broadcasting career working for the state broadcaster Televisión Española (RTVE) on the Teledeporte channel in 1997. Villanueva covered the 1997 FINA Swimming World Cup held in Barcelona, Tennis' Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Resano
María Helena Resano Lizaldre (born 9 February 1974) is a Spanish journalist who works for LaSexta. Her professional journalistic career began as an editor for the radio broadcaster Cadena SER. Resano presented a weekly programme on Pamplona Televisión before joining Radio Nacional de España in Madrid on a scholarship in 1995 and then at Telecinco between 1996 and 1999. She worked at Televisión Española from 1999 to 2006, first for 24 Horas as an editor and reporter, news bulletins on TVE1 and presenting the current affairs programme ''59 Segundos''. Resano has worked for LaSexa since 2006, presenting the afternoon ''La Sexta Noticias'' news bulletin as well as fronting other current affair programmes for the broadcaster. Biography On 9 February 1974, Resano was born in Pamplona, Navarre. Her father was an electricity company worker. Resano had wanted to become a professional solo pianist but she was advised to stop doing it when studying the Conservatorio profesional de m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa Press (news Agency)
Europa Press is a Spanish news agency founded in 1953. It broadcasts news 24 hours a day, publishing 3,000 articles on average per day. Originally founded as a book distribution company by five monarchists, Europa Press became a news agency in 1966. It is a competitor to the state-run news agency, Agencia EFE. History On September 23, 1953, Torcuato Luca de Tena published in ''ABC'' that Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, leader of the Soviet police, was in Spain following the death of Joseph Stalin. Since no one could verify the information, Luca de Tena was dismissed. When he was thirty, he decided to write books and pamphlets, founding an individual agency called Agencia Europea, where he hired his colleagues Florentino Pérez Embid, Andrés Rueda, Lluis Valls, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora and Javier García Vinuesa, with the aim of creating and spreading material containing pictures summarizing successful theatre plays or movies. The name 'Europa' responds to the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La 1 (Spanish TV Channel)
(, ''The One'') is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster (RTVE). It is the corporation's flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and generalist programming, including news bulletins, prime time drama, cinema and entertainment, and major breaking news, sports and special events. History It was launched on 28 October 1956 as the first regular television service in Spain. It was the only one until 15 November 1966, when TVE launched a second channel. As TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting in the country, they were the only television channels until the first regional public television station was launched on 16 February 1983, when started broadcasting in the Basque Country. Commercial television was launched on 25 January 1990, when started broadcasting nationwide. The channel was initially simply referred to as "" until the launch of its secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
