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74% Of Sex-Crime Suspects In Spain’s Basque Country Are Foreigners

74% Of Sex-Crime Suspects In Spain’s Basque Country Are Foreigners

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via Remix News, Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories. Of the 107 people detained for crimes against sexual freedom, 79 were born abroad, making up 74 percent of arrests in this category, according to data obtained by The Objective. Foreign-born suspects also accounted for 73.3 percent of homicide arrests and 61.3 percent of those for causing injury. The highest shares appeared in other offences: 94.7 percent of drunk-driving arrests (36 of 38), 79.6 percent of theft arrests (222 of 279), and 77.6 percent of robberies involving violence or intimidation (253 of 326). The figures come from data the Basque Department of Security, which began publishing this data systematically at the end of 2025. Until then, the Ertzaintza routinely omitted …

Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander

Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Banco Santander Foundation announced September 8 as the new opening date for its forthcoming art center, the Faro Santander. The news was first reported by El País. The space’s three inaugural shows include a Leonora Carrington solo, an exhibition looking at the Banco Santander’s previously unseen collection of masterpieces, and “Modern Mexico in the Gelman Santander Collection,” drawing from the holdings of the Gelman Collection, which has been mired in controversy since January when the foundation revealed that it now owned 160 of the 300 works that had been assembled by Jacques and Natasha Gelman between 1941 and 1998. They were originally to go on view at the Faro Santander in June.   The Gelman Collection is considered one of the most important holdings of Mexican art, with important works by some of the country’s most influential 20th-century artists, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Many of the works in the collection are categorized as “artistic monuments” under Mexican law, meaning they cannot be permanently removed …

Spain’s homecoming heroes

Spain’s homecoming heroes

Published by Sam Flores

A nation celebrates as Spain’s World Cup champions come home to a hero’s welcome. Transcript JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Spain’s World Cup champions are celebrating back home, parading through the streets of Madrid after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Argentina. NPR’s Miguel Macias reports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MIGUEL MACIAS, BYLINE: For fans lining the streets of Madrid today, this celebration was worth the wait. For Merce Moron, today’s celebration also brings back a very different memory. MERCE MORON: (Speaking Spanish). MACIAS: 1986, the World Cup in Mexico, quarterfinals against Belgium, a missed penalty kick by Spain. MORON: (Speaking Spanish). MACIAS: Moron says she and her brother stood on their balcony and cried. She later told her father… MORON: (Speaking Spanish). MACIAS: “I will never see Spain win a World Cup ’cause Spain is never going to win a World Cup.” Moron was speaking for many Spaniards who, for generations, went from heartbreak to heartbreak. The world’s biggest stars came to play in Spain, Barcelona, Real Madrid. The football was spectacular, but the national team always seemed …

Spain’s Wind Towns Are Thriving

Spain’s Wind Towns Are Thriving

Published by Daniella Wilson

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La Mancha, attacked small wooden windmills he perceived as fierce giants and where today giant wind turbines have become an embedded part of the landscape. There, I met Mayor Isabel Martínez Arnedo, who has run the town of Higueruela since 2019. The region’s distinctive wind whipped her dark curls as she stepped out of her car. “Look!” she said in Spanish. “Windmills, windmills, windmills.” They were lined up along a ridge at the edge of the small rural town, blades spinning high atop pale-blue towers. A verdant valley lay below, and beyond that, another ridge was crowned with more turbines. When the town’s wind farms were first built, more than 25 years ago, “this was seen as futuristic,” she told me. She was just 23 years old then, and it was the largest wind farm in Europe, the second largest in …

Soros Praises Spain’s Sánchez For Mass Amnesty Of 500,000 Illegals

Soros Praises Spain’s Sánchez For Mass Amnesty Of 500,000 Illegals

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, has lavished praise on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for granting legal status to up to 500,000 illegal migrants, stating that Sánchez shows “what real leadership looks like” by confronting issues with policies that are “both principled and pragmatic.” Soros added, “We need more elected leaders like him!” This endorsement comes amid widespread backlash against Sánchez’s open-borders agenda, which critics slam as a betrayal of Spanish citizens. In a post on X, Alex Soros highlighted Sánchez’s approach, quoting the prime minister’s own words: “They care for aging parents, work in small and large companies, and harvest the food on our tables. On weekends, they walk in our parks and play on the local amateur soccer team….” Soros praised the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, for granting legal status to 500,000 illegal aliens, says “we need more elected leaders like him” pic.twitter.com/5wHXPTJUHL — Daily Romania (@daily_romania) February 6, 2026 The amnesty, implemented via a royal decree bypassing parliament, targets undocumented migrants who arrived …