"ONE MONTH BEFORE" "THE GENERAL ELECTION IN MARCH 2004," "A GROUP OF FILMMAKERS DECIDED TO MAKE A FILM" "ABOUT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF SPANISH SOCIETY." "WE QUICKLY MADE 32 SHORT FILMS" "WHICH WERE SHOWN PRIOR TO THE ELECTION." "GIVEN THE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES," "WE LATER ADDED AN EPILOGUE." "WITH GOOD REASON!" "FREE" " Where to?" " The communications tower." " Spanish Television?" " That's right." "The things they said about the boss, Udaci, on the radio this morning!" "What did they say?" "About his news programmes..." "The thing is you can't prove there's censorship or manipulation because they don't exactly tell us what they want us to do, but you get the point and there are certain subjects..." " Perhaps I shouldn't ask but..." " That's okay." "What?" "Do you vote for the PP?" "No." "I'm just temporary." "In 2 weeks' time I'll be out on my ear again." "They just lie to us all the time." "Yes, that's true." "I mean, I listen to the radio but my mother watches TV and believes every word." ""Spanish TV unites and divides us," right?" "Last night I burned myself when I was making the kids' supper and just look at my hand." "But I can't get time off sick." ""Spain is fine." Well I'm not fine at all." "And my husband's inside." "Your husband's in jail?" "With today's laws?" "Sure." "They catch you with enough dope to make one joint and it's 3 years." "I'd need 3 lifetimes to pay my house off." "Yet there are "For Sale" signs everywhere." " Yes." " So who buys them?" "A flat of 72,000 euros a couple of years ago costs 180,000 now." "Flats have gone up 111%." "I've never seen a 500 euro note in my life." "You ever seen one?" " 500?" " Never." "I know they're purple, somebody told me." "And Zaplana with his private plane." "It's hard enough paying the babysitter." " I know." " I just can't manage." "An absolute majority and so many people out of work." "I don't get it." "Right-wing supporters always go out and vote." " They always vote." " Yes, they do." "Yes." "You have to grant them that." "I mean, people complain then don't bother to vote." "So they shouldn't complain." "On the radio the other day they said that full-time jobs have dropped by a million." "It's all temporary work nowadays." "All of it." "They were talking about mobile phones on the radio." "The phone company's made a fortune out of it." "A lot of people have taken early retirement." "At 50 and under." "So who pays their Social Security?" "You and me and all Spaniards." "The only thing we're good at is arms research." "Second only to the Americans." " Really?" " Yes." "That's how stupid we are." "But you can't even go out and demonstrate against the war." "You're "unpatriotic" and they fine you." "That's where the news manipulation comes in." "You can talk about some things." "Things everybody talks about, like Carod-Rovira." "Other things you can't." "What they say on the state TV news, on Spanish Television, is different from private TV news." "That mayor who abused that girl..." " Yes." " Very nasty." "Then Fraga says there's no reason..." " No reason?" "...to fire him." "That it was all probably very innocent." "It sounded just like the old days with Franco." "Fraga must be tired of going around eating octopus all the time." "He should retire from politics and stay at home." "People are annoyed with the socialists too." "They did some bad things too." "Nobody's perfect." "The PP wouldn't have their majority otherwise." "Just too bad." " Things change." " For the worse, right?" "My folks thought everything was going to change." "I feel sorry for people like them who fought for change." "Now things are worse." "I don't think jackets suit Zapatero." "Almost there now." "The ride's on me." "On you?" "Things must be bad enough for you just working at Spanish TV." "No, tell me what I owe you and..." "Nice meeting you." "You too." "Watch my hand, it's sore." "Well, thanks." "I was just..." " Bye." " Thanks a lot, eh?" "That's okay." "Be seeing you." "THE WATER PLAN" "The government's Water Distribution Plan started outdated." "Based on the old strategy applied to subsided cement, it will flood villages and populated valleys and destroy areas such as the Ebro delta, our second greatest heritage of biodiversity after Donòana, in an area with 50,000 people." "To expect those people to support the plan would be demagogic." "How can they be expected to abandon their villages for the sake of the development of projects like the Terra Mitica theme park?" "A clear distinction should be made between deficits in human needs and surpluses in the greed of the richest." "On the Mediterranean coast we now use and require an average of over 3 tonnes of water per capita per day, much of this water for farming or development projects often bordering on the illegal." "Meanwhile the authorities look the other way, which encourages illegal acts." "There is a difference between water as "life" and water as "business."" "We must not violate human or social rights so that a few can do good business." "And the plan is a bad business, uneconomical for the country." "The government has failed to specify how much the citizens will have to pay in the remoter regions of Murcia and Almeria for the water brought to them." "Despite a 60% subsidy... a non-refundable subsidy of taxpayer's money... these areas will have to pay a higher price than that now paid to desalinate seawater." "And 35% of the country's water is lost through leaks in the urban networks and over 50% is lost in the obsolete irrigation system used on 2 million hectares of land." "Modernization and an intelligent use of the new technologies are challenges for the modernization of the water distribution system." "Also the challenge of dialogue, and of overcoming the dynamic of confrontation imposed upon us by the government." "The new "water culture"" "will require a fresh look at our natural heritage." "We cannot go on looking at our rivers as mere canals of H2O." "Just as we do not see our forests as timber warehouses, we must not see rivers in the Pyrenees as keys to the production of yet more corn, electricity or urban speculation." "Just as we must not see La Concha in San Sebastian or Benidorm beach as simply quarries of sand for building." "To save the Mediterranean rivers from speculation and corruption is the challenge to this powerful citizers movement for the new water culture." "PEDRO ARROJO AGUDO, DR. OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES," "SARAGOSSA UNIVERSITY." "MEMBER OF THE ALTERNATIVE WATER FORUM" "AND UNESCO'S MAB COMMITTEE." "GOLDMAN PRIZE 2003," "AWARDED BY THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT." "PRESIDENT OF "THE NEW WATER CULTURE FOUNDATION."" "THE NIGHTMARE" "At last we arrived." "After weeks of flying." "Up in the sky, Daddy said," ""Remember that river, that lake, that forest, where we stopped to rest last year?" I remembered but looking down, I saw they had gone." "Doòana at last." "We arrived at night, exhausted." "I fell asleep right away, happy to have reached paradise." "I've had a terrible nightmare." "I knew I was asleep, I tried to wake up but couldn't." "In the nightmare paradise was turning into hell." "I opened my eyes and there was nobody there." "And the nightmare swallowed me up." "ON 25 APRIL 1988," "THE AZNALCOLLAR MINE'S WASTE RESERVOIR BROKE." "6 MILLION CUBIC METRES OF TOXIC WASTE" "FLOODED DOÒANA AND AREA." "THOUSANDS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS," "MANY ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION," "DIED IN EUROPE'S RICHEST ECOLOGICAL PRESERVE." "THE DAMAGE REMAINS," "THE LAWSUITS AND MUTAL ACCUSATIONS CONTINUE." "WHEN WILL WE AWAKEN FROM THE NIGHTMARE?" "CLOSE YOUR EYES" "Spain is the European country with the most black money in circulation." "How much longer will we close our eyes to it?" "WHERE DO WE LIVE?" ""Attic, 10 square metres, ideal investment for renting. 45,000 euros..."" ""16 square metres, bright, renovated, 54,000 euros..."" ""Apartment, 18 square metres, 75,126 euros..."" ""Apartment, 16 square metres, American kitchen, separate bedroom, 90,000 euros..."" ""Studio flat, 22 square metres, duplex, renovated, 96,000 euros..."" ""Apartment, 45 square metres, interior, very bright, 120,000 euros..."" ""Apartment, 60 square metres, 142,000 euros..."" ""Apartment, 65 square metres, 3 bedrooms, exterior, renovated, 198,000 euros..."" ""Apartment, 50 square metres..."" "Hard times for poetry." "Hard times for poetry." ""105 square metres, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, garage, garden, pool," "438,700 euros..."" ""158 square metres, 4 bedrooms, fitted kitchen, parquet and tiled flooring," "24-hour surveillance, 570,911 euros..."" ""A real bargain:" "210 square metres, exterior, needs renovating, 709,194 euros," "117,726,000 pesetas."" "THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF THE SHOPPING TROLLEY" "I spend all day here." "I spend a lot of time here." "And..." "I like watching the old men playing bowls and all that." "Yeah, I like that." "I'm an observant kind of guy, you know." "People say to me, "Hey, man, you don't miss a trick."" "And I say, "Yeah, that's true." "No, I don't miss a trick."" "You know, nowadays there's a whole lot of things that kind of shock me." "Freak me out even." "The old ladies, for instance..." "Have you noticed that they've all got white hair now?" "Hey, Teresa." "How you doing?" "Coping." " Coping?" " Yes." "Yeah, white hair and that's it." "No hairdresser's for them." "I mean, before, on Fridays and Saturdays, you'd see them out in the street with their hair all tinted and looking all smart, you know?" "And then there's the trolley thing." "They have their shopping trolleys but they don't buy anything." "I mean, what can they buy with 200 euros?" "Their shopping trolleys get emptier and emptier." "I mean, you go to the market and tomatoes are 7 euros a kilo." "That's more than 1,000 old pesetas." "I mean 7 euros is 1,200 pesetas." "Remember howfar 1,200 pesetas used to go?" "I mean, you need a kilo of tomatoes just to stick on spaghetti." "In some supermarkets they charge you for the bag." "Like 5 cents for a fucking bag!" "I used to like going and helping them up the stairs..." "You'd think we were living in Japan or something." "I feel really sorry for them." "Really sorry." "I used to like helping them and taking their trolleys up." "It used to make me feel good." "Silly, ain't it?" "3 OUT OF 4 PENSIONS ARE UNDER 600 EUROS A MONTH." "800,000 WOMEN DRAW LESS THAN 400 EUROS A MONTH." "THE PENSION INCREASES APPROVED" "BY THE GOVERNMENT LAST YEAR" "EXCLUDED 74% OF THOSE WHO RECEIVED BENEFIT." "THAT IS..." "THOSE MOST IN NEED." "PENSIONERS HAVE LOST 28% OF THEIR PURCHASING POWER IN 4 YEARS." "TOMATOES CAN COST AS MUCH AS 7 EUROS PER KILO" "IN SPANISH MARKETS." "I SEEM TO SEE MORE AND MORE ELDERLY LADIES WITH WHITE HAIR." "SOLITUDE" "I've lived alone since my husband died about 10 years ago." "And it's very sad." "I draw a small pension, though with the euro," "I don't knowwhere it goes." "I try to buy the cheapest things I can." "I once heard it said that" ""A poor table is the mother of good health."" "That hasn't done me much good." "I haven't been out of the house for at least 3 years." "Since my fall." "I often think of my husband." "We were married for 50-odd years." "I can't remember exactly." "My memory..." "MADRID, 2003:" "115 ELDERLY PEOPLE" "DIED IN TOTAL SOLITUDE." "ADOPTION" "Hello, Luis?" "Everything's set." "Tomorr..." "What?" "What do you mean?" "You can't do that to me now!" "Your son won't appear, I told you that." "No photos." "Just you and Alberto talking about your case." "It has to be ready by Monday." "Today's Wednesday." "It was all arranged, Luis." "There's nothing exceptional about your case." "It doesn't matter that you're the biological father." "It just illustrates the subject." "You've got a child who has no mother." "No need to go into that." "And you've lived with your partner, a man, for 8 years." "So why can't Alberto legally take the mother's place?" "Okay, his second father." "Who cares who changes the baby?" "Luis, tell me..." "Why the change of heart?" "Tell me." "We're doing this for your sors sake, remember?" "You used to say who'd look after Pablo if you werert there." "You'd come whining to me." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Yes, I'm sorry I said that." "Again?" "Of course that's the point." "A vulnerable childhood, the newfamilies who can help remedy the situation..." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Of course." "Orphans through war and famine..." "There's nothing wrong with a gay couple adopting a child." "Then we'd go on from your specific case to cases in general." "You know we said that." "I can't use actors." "It has to be real, a documentary." "I want to show a real couple." "We've no data on how many children live in homoparental homes here." "Because your government made sure there's no data." "So we'll see." "So what's the problem?" "Don't be ridiculous, Luis." "We are not the "anti-PP filmmakers."" "So what if it is released then?" "You're standing for election." "Your real friends will stand by you." "The others can put up with it." "Be brave, Luis." "You'll be scoring a few points." "What about Alberto?" "If he agrees, let's go for it!" "Listen..." ""The country must realize that tens of thousands of children are born and raised in households of homosexual couples and that they are entitled to the same family protection as others."" "Your words, Luis." "Who better than you to take this step?" "Be honest, Luis." "Okay." "Okay, okay." "All right." "Is that your last word?" "Okay." "One more thing, Luis." "Your boy and many other children would have been grateful." "FOR YOUR OWN GOOD" "I think I'm in labour." "You think?" "Are you in labour or not?" "I think so." "Hello." " What's that?" " Let's bend our knees a little." "That's fine." " My name's Luis." " Fine, dear." "We'll shave you now and this is to make you pooh, if that's okay with you." "Hold on." "Can I sit up a little?" "I'm uncomfortable." "But you're plugged in." " Where are you going?" " What about my wife?" "I've broken your bag." "It'll be a piece of cake now." "It's for your own good, you know." "Right then." "Complete dilation?" "So, using the pushes and contractions, we'll get the head to descend" "through the canal." "Good." "Right." "Well, we're almost there now, lad." "Now, push." "Come on, come on, push." "Keep going." "Push, no, no, no, no, not like that." "Push." "Push." " Lf I stand up...?" " What?" "I wouldn't be able to see then." "Come on." "Keep pushing." "Come on." "Come on." "Keep pushing." "Keep it up, keep it up." "Good." "Keep pushing." "Come on, come on, come on." "Very good." "Now." "Come on." "Very good." "Come on, come on." "Scissors." "What's that?" " What are you doing?" " Last push now." "Come on." "Come on, slowly now." "Push slowly." "Very good." "Slowly." "Good, good." "Slowly." "Very good." "That's it." "Is that it?" "It's a boy." "Can I see him?" " Can I see him?" " He's fine." "Where is he?" "Where is he?" "He's not crying!" "Why isn't he crying?" " He's perfectly all right." " He's beautiful." "We'll take him to observation and bring him to you later." "CHILDBIRTH BELONGS TO US" "GIVE IT BACK!" "TEENAGERS" "I'm Fernando." "I'm a secondary school teacher." "29% OF SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN DROP OUT OF SCHOOL" "In class you just get bored." "It's not interesting." "I'm in third, in PAC, in a special group because I stayed away from school." "I started off okay but I ended up failing 6 subjects." "I just saw that I couldn't..." "It was difficult so I didn't bother." "Every year till this one." "Who likes bad pupils?" "They do exist..." "But at 14 or 15 is there such a thing as a "bad pupil"?" "That's the real question." "There's a class called 3rd PAC." "The "special cases" like me are in that." "All the ones who didn't get anywhere are in the same class." "And they pay more attention to us and all that." "They should have paid more attention to us before really." "But anyway..." "In a class of 30 I felt left out." "They concentrate on the ones who study, the ones who want to do something." "In a class of 30, there's always one they neglect." "A lot of teachers gabble on and that's the lesson, and the pupils don't understand a word." "But they don't care if they do or not." "The teachers don't motivate you so you say what's the point and you stop going." "84% OF TEACHERS' PROBLEMS ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC." "You might know your subject inside out but yet working with intuition at a job... you don't really... the training they gave us wasrt particularly good when it came to getting closer to pupils." "If they treat you well, they help you, they're on your side," "then your self-esteem gets boosted." "You don't exactly study but you do feel more comfortable in class." "It's no effort to listen because the lessons are interesting." "It's a very different relationship, more supportive..." "And you make a special effort to keep on and you say," ""They're going out of their way for you, so do the same for them."" "One mark of our society is competitiveness." "And you get that at school too when you do your subjects." "For that you need means for studying and these kids haven't got those means." "SPAIN IS LAST IN THE EU FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SPENDING." "I think we all feel a bit alone." "I do anyway, a little." "I get bored all the time in this village." "The same old monotonous life, doing the same old things..." "Yeah, I get bored here." "There's nothing to do, or nothing much." "I don't know..." "People take drugs because there's nothing else to do." "They get bored, so they smoke a joint and have a laugh." "At weekends maybe they drop a couple of pills and feel better." "It's easier to get ecstasy than books..." "They can get their hands on any kind of drug in less than an hour, yet they take a fortnight to get access to any kind of cultural event." "So what are you studying now?" "Nothing." "I stopped studying." "THE DEAD WOMEN'S SOCIETY" "To those who rebel, who won't keep quiet, the humble and the docile, those who imagine impossible things, the right to be happy..." "To those who live alone, trampled on, those with no more hope, the unprotected, forgotten," "those who fall and get up again..." "So many lives humiliated, so many hushed-up tears..." "The saddest thing is sadness itself in the Dead Womers Society." "Sometimes because they look, or keep quiet, thinking they'll give themselves away, sometimes because they tell others, because they cry, or because they don't understand a thing..." "Some forgive everything, even those who kill them for a kiss, for a look." "Some expect everything from the one they love and don 't lose hope." "So many lives humiliated, so many hushed-up tears." "The saddest thing is sadness itself in the Dead" "Womers Society." "Burned, dragged by the hair, tortured, devastated, legally raped, stabbed..." "Some judges look at them and turn away." "The men say they felt jealous, their minds went blank, they didn't know what they were doing." "And when they drink, they say they werert themselves." "This hell isn't me anymore." "So many lives humiliated, so many hushed-up tears..." "The saddest thing is sadness itself in the Dead Womers Society." "In the Dead" "Womers Society." "In the Dead Womers Society." "I N 2003, 68 WOM EN DI ED DUE TO MISTREATMENT." "30.7% MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR." "SCHOOL FOR SALE" "We're a group of parents who chose a school for our children with no religious or political affiliations." "On 8th September the school year began and on the 15th we received a note asking us to attend a meeting as there'd been a sale of school property to something called the "Legionnaires of Christ."" "They made 3 important points..." "They wanted to separate the boys and girls due to some theoretical difference in intellectual development..." "They wanted to build a kind of chapel in the playground or the sports facilities..." "And they would hold communion for those pupils who wanted it." "It so happened that these meetings were attended by people posing as parents, but after a few meetings they were unmasked." "Finally every adult attending the meetings was asked to identify him or herself." "Many children left the school, leaving their books, footballs... satchels and classmates of 10 years' standing behind." "We saw that the authorities, the laws, practically everything, allowed this kind of thing to happen." "An ex-seminarist of the Legionnaires got in touch with us anonymously by e-mail to explain why the children were to be separated." "They were separated because the idea was to capture future seminarists from the boys' group." "This happened to us recently, but it's happened before." "Last year it was in Valencia and with the political climate the way it is now, everything's in their favour." "This is worrying for all Spaniards." "This may seem a very specific problem in a very minority sector, but we don't think that's the case." "That isn't the problem because the ideological principles of the religious group that's bought our school are exactly the same as those which the Spanish Episcopal Conference are dictating for the subject matter of religious education at state schools" "to be taught from September this year." "The ultra-conservative order we're talking about makes references to Pope Pius Xll, and their doctrine refers to an order whose founder, as we mentioned before, comes from Mexico and who in the U.S. And in Mexico has been accused" "of paedophilia." "Obviously we want this to come out but the lawsuits are taking time and no-one knows for sure what's going on." "Other investigations have revealed that they're a powerful force in the U.S., that they run bogus trading companies in Panama and other countries, and in Europe they've used Spain as a springboard for neighbouring countries, and it seems that" "there's sufficient information on the Internet for anyone to see to describe the Legionnaire's of Christ as a sect." "When the PP came to power at Madrid Town Hall, it stopped grants to an association which investigated sects." "This was apparently endorsed by the fact that the mayor, Mr. Alvarez del Manzano, was surrounded by important people who belonged not only to the Opus Dei but also to Liberation and Communion and the Legionnaires." "THE "EL BOSQUE" PARENTS ASSOCIATION" "(VILLAVICIOSA DE ODON" " MADRID)" "CATECHISM" "Perhaps if it is told as a simple story, we can understand the problem in all its magnitude." "Once there was a parish priest who played with little girls who had been sent to him by their families to be taught religious principles." "After a good dose of the catechism to numb their minds, he sat them on his lap and put his holy fingers under the lace of their little panties and then into their vaginal openings." "Once there, he paused, his pleasure increasing in direct proportion to the panic of the little girl who sat" ""catechized" on his knees." "Such facts were proved and as a result the catechizing priest who took advantage of the little girls received an unappealable sentence from the Cordoba court of 11 years in jail." "When the church authorities heard of this judgement, the bishop of Cordoba, in whose diocese the atrocities I have told you of took place, gave his moral support to the priest, refusing to sack him." "The next day however, surprised by the general alarm caused by this act of complicity with the perverse priest, he did decide to sack him, without excommunicating him or withdrawing the moral support he had given him." "The bishop and the priest belong to a religious confession which receives state aid and whose beliefs the government has allowed to be taught as a compulsory subject at schools." "The teachers of this subject work within a framework on the fringes of the constitution." "48 hours after the scandal reached the newspapers, the government had still not called its ambassador at the Vatican or urged the public prosecutor to decide whether the bishop of Cordoba's attitude could be construed as justification of sexual harassment." "Of course the government, a month after Fraga gave his support to a Galician mayor who was also fond of playing with little girls, has not expelled this mayor from the party." "On the contrary, the government has reduced to a minimum the grant given to the only centre for the recovery and social rehabilitation of battered women which addressed the problem of violence against women in its entirety." "And that is the end of the story..." "WRITTEN BY JOSE MILLAS "EL PAIS" 13TH FEBRUARY 2004." "Drug prevention campaigns always seem to be aimed at young people who have still not approached the world of drugs." "So it's, "Don't take drugs."" ""Say no to drugs." And that's it." "So once you've started, there's nothing more to say." "So it's, "Come here, take drugs here, do what you want."" "And ghettos like this spring up." "And there are groups which no-one cares about." "We're just trying to maintain, to contain public health, albeit it at minimal levels but this is a high-risk health hazard for everyone." "Here 5,000 people come and go each day, maybe 10,000." "And they're exposed to high levels of risk of all sorts of disease." "This is a focus for tuberculosis due to the overcrowded conditions." "And people do get infected here." "30% to 40% are HIV positive and when syringes run short," "it's difficult to control transmission." "In Madrid, 8,000 have died of AIDS, while drug deaths can be estimated at 300 to 500 a year." "And if we talk of the last 10 years, that's thousands of people." "There's no funding, no hostels, no basic resources from the social services." "And people are being turned away from drug addiction centres..." "Some have an ID but no medical card." "Others a medical card but they're not registered, in which case they don't have an ID card." "These are purely bureaucratic requirements that exclude the people most in need of specific services." "So despite the existing aid systems, these people just can't get to them." "So I can come here and approach the people but anyone with AIDS has to go to a specific hospital." "But we must start thinking about methods of treatment, because nothing's being done to stop this." "But nobody asks how we can do it." "This is like a disaster area." "In an area that's just poor you don't find people like this." "And the approach seems to be that the less said about this the better." "The dilemma is Las Barranquillas." "The populated area." "There's no hope here." "No-one helps us out." "We came here to die." "Tell people that." "When I came to Madrid everything was great." "I travelled the city, full of sensations, like when you travel my skin." "The city opened up before me, like you open me up." "Everything was warm and welcoming, like your body." "No, you haven't seen Madrid." "That never happened." "That Madrid doesn't exist." "That didn't happen." "You must have dreamt it." "All I sawwas surveillance." "Easy now, easy..." "I've seen 2nd May Square filled with people the whole night long." "The things you can do in a square the whole night long!" "All night long... in a square filled with people." "You've got it wrong." "You haven't seen 2nd May Square." "I saw my friends cry and stand up against the war." "Crying like the Trojan women, against the war." "No, nobody was crying." "You imagined it." "That's not why they were crying." "Many have loved Madrid's light, Madrid's skies." "I've loved Madrid's nights." "I've loved Madrid's nights." "You haven't seen Madrid." "All that exists is a city under surveillance, harassed, scared." "Where you can only expect barbarians." "Freedom of expression!" "Then what's the point of memory if there's nothing beyond your skin, if there's air only in this room?" "What memory?" "Get up, I'll showyou." "AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH..." "I guarantee and wish to promote a policy of dialogue with everyone." "And wish to talk to everyone." "The political parties, the autonomous communities, the institutions, the economic agents, the workers." "We must all form part of a national endeavour to bring about historic change in Spain." "Everyone knows that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction." "You can be sure, and everyone watching us now can be sure, that that is the truth." "You are wrong." "Weapons of mass destruction exist and you will see them." "You have lost your way." "The only "proof" you have shown us has been false." "We knew you were preparing your next demonstration." "There's no need to tell us so now." "You'll take us into history by the back door." "Will you get us out of the corner?" "We all know how fond you are of dusting off all the old clichés and reminding us of them." "The Spanish government has information that the Iraqi regime," "Saddam Husseirs regime, by virtue of biological weapons, chemical weapons, and links to terrorist groups, is a threat to peace and world security." "The President has never said that to his knowledge, to his knowledge..." "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction." "Never believe you are in sole possession of the truth, and respect others and their opinions." "Since the end of the war 500 more deaths are being recorded per month in Baghdad." "No official or unofficial communication exists pointing to intoxication." "Alcohol has been detected in the bodies of at least 2 crew members." "They denied this at the beginning, but it was just another lie." "The Ministry of Defence is working on it and I am sure that it is attending to the people and will ensure that this never happens again." "They've been lying to us, that's completely obvious now." "Our loss is painful enough as it is, but being lied to is just as painful." "Spanish radio and TV, the judiciary, the National Audit Office, the Taxpayer's Statute, the laws governing pubic safety and freedom of expression, which it would never occur to me to encroach on." "I would never allow anyone to tamper with that freedom in Spain." "You must be very happy with Spanish Television." "You've turned it into your own private TV company, your personal TV station, using it not only to criticize and insult your political opponents but also to constantly air the insults and criticism which your government makes against the opposition." "Will security please remove from the public gallery all those persons who are causing a disturbance." "NO WAR" "Will security please clear the public gallery." "Will security please clear the public gallery immediately." "The European cultural exception is the specific economic and cultural interest of some European countries whose cultures and languages are not expandable." "But I do not believe in what is called the cultural exception." "The cultural exception is the refuge of cultures that are being defeated, that are in retreat, and that has nothing to do with the meaning of Spanish culture." "Which means that Spain, irrespective of other values, is a country taken very seriously, taken into account and respected and it seems that in the American parliament, in Congress and the Senate, things are resolved." "Thus we are committed only to material reconstruction." "We do this for a nation to recover its dignity and for the stability of the region." "It is a large cake." "I hope we all have a chance but the problem is public order." "An article in the newspaper about a number of people dying could put investors off." "We are in agreement in calling this looting by the occupiers." "I am a man whom fate mauled with the claws of a savage beast." "How many young Spaniards cannot buy a home?" "By how much has the cost of housing multiplied in the last few years?" "What happened to state-subsidized and publicly promoted housing?" "We shall launch a project whereby 600,000 state-subsidized homes will be built in the near future." "Remember, Mr. Gonzalez, what you said in 1982 in an interview with Spanish Television:" ""The socialists will never use state TV against anyone."" "Never!" "And somebody said, "That's on tape."" "And it is on tape, Mr. Gonzalez." "WEAPONS OF MEDIA DESTRUCTION" "20th June, 21 hours since midnight and all normal except for a few violent incidents involving pickets." "Public transport has been normal with minimum services at 100%." "Factories have operated with their gates closed to avoid provocation." "90% of all petrol stations have opened, and the distribution of bread and other foodstuffs has been normal throughout the day." "Mariano Rajoy has praised the police for guaranteeing the right to work." "He gave the figures this afternoon, concluding that few people have joined the strike." "The strike has not been general." "It has been a partial strike, and therefore not very general." "OVER 10,000,000 WORKERS WENT ON STRI KE" "OVER 4 MILLION PROTESTED" "THE MINISTER OF LABOUR RESIGNED ...17% ofthe working population." "Minimum services have been 100% and this morning those who were not sure about public transport took their cars, bringing the rush forward by half an hour." "Vice President Rato has called these results the worst defeat of the Socialist Party for decades." "From the political point of view, the general strike has been the worst political defeat of the Socialist Party in the last 20 years." "United we have done it!" "The general strike has been massive in Madrid!" "Today has seen the beginning of the social and political demise of the Popular Party." "Candido said it, I say it..." "Let them change course or this is only the first strike." "Up with the general strike!" "SPANISH TELEVISION WAS ORDERED" "TO RECTIFY BY THE COURTS." "The Social Court has ruled in favour of the CCOO trade uniors suit against Spanish Television concerning the violation of the fundamental right to strike as a result of news coverage of the strike on 20th June 2002." "The ruling, which can be appealed, obliges Spanish Telecision to broadcast this ruling on its news programmes." "Spanish Television and its subsidiary companies have appealed to the Supreme Court against this ruling." "MANIPULATION" "We are journalists who work for TV." "For fear of reprisals sim ilar to those taken in the past, we feel obliged to remain anonymous." "We wish to denounce certain serious facts connected with the news programmes." "Political control and news censorship have reached hitherto unknown limits." "The heads of the news department are only concerned that news should serve the electoral interests of the Popular Party." "Said heads of the department have ordered reporters to use extreme caution regarding the Fabra and mayor of Toques scandals, both concerning members of the PP." "They have also ordered reporters to give full coverage to the scandal caused by the meeting between Carod-Rovira and ETA." "However, no coverage has been given to the controversy over the partisan use of the intelligence services." "A few days ago much publicity was given to a recording in which Jose Bono, unaware that his voice was being recorded, was heard to remark that Tony Blair was a wanker." "The first part of the conversation was never aired, however." "In it Bono said," ""Arenas told me they're not very happy, that Rajoy's not a patch on Aznar."" "There have been meetings with reporters from the department where the following comment was made..." ""You should learn from those in Italy." "There left-wing journalists never work for a right-wing news medium."" "We consider all these facts to be sufficiently serious to be brought out in the open." "They can all be easily checked." "Thank you." "Signed... journalists from Antena 3 Television." "I'm just an actor." "This manifesto has been released on the Internet by journalists from Antena 3 TV." "They wish to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals." "Thank you for listening." "WE ARE NOT BEING MANIPULATED BY STATE TELEVISION ALONE" "MY THIRTY EUROS" "I'm working for a cleaning company." "It operates at... the Barajas Plan site at the airport." "Anyway, it all started with the inauguration of the new terminal and Mr. Aznar and Co." "The day of the inauguration we workers were forbidden entry to the facilities... to the site." "I think it was to make it look like everything was finished, which just wasrt true because it's a big mess there, there's rubble falling everywhere, crap falling everywhere..." "I mean it's still an ongoing job..." "I don't know how much longer it needs, but there's still a lot left to do." "But somebody told us what happened that day." "There were 4 or 5 men standing around in new uniforms while all the bigwigs were there cutting tape." "And I felt really indignant so I wrote a letter to "El País"." "You see, I get a pathetic wage and they docked me a whole day's pay." "It was..." "How much do you earn?" "I'm embarrassed to say..." "But of course if they docked me 30 euros then it's 600, isn't it?" "But that's a lot of money to me." "A lot." "So that's why I wrote the letter." "Because I felt indignant about it... we all felt indignant about it, but I didn't feel like keeping quiet about it, you know?" "So..." "I decided to go ahead with it." "I invited Mr. Aznar and Mr. Cascos and all the other people involved to give me some kind of answer." "I want some kind of answer." "I really do think that they owe me that money." "It's mine and..." "I think it's only fair." "I know it's only a pittance but that's the way I see it." "DOUBLE MORALITY" "A dictatorship can apply state terrorism because terrorism can be applied by governments, terrorist groups, or by states." "It all depends." "My mother was one of the Spanish victims who died in the attack on the Spanish embassy." "They died in 1980 in the attack by the police of Guatemala in which 40 people were killed including the consul, my mother, all the workers there, and the peasants who'd taken the embassy." "My name's Cesar Torrego and I'm the la?" "Er to a Guatemalan citizen who worked at the embassy when it was attacked." "The judicial proceedings were open for 36 days, no investigation was made and Spain didn't investigate either." "Our aim was to win compensation for the families." "Last December, the supreme court rejected our application in view of the fact that the Guatemalan state forces were not responsible for the deaths as they were not a terrorist group and Spanish constitutional order or its sovereignty had not been affected." "When peace came to Guatemala in 1996, the UN wrote a report describing the case as one of state terrorism." "It was only one of the many cases of state terrorism in Guatemala." "The final death toll was 200,000." "Compensation has been paid according to the state terrorist law." "For example in the case of the Spanish Twin Towers victim." "It was paid according to the law of solidarity, which has been extended since then." "Since 9-11, any Spaniard killed in an act of terrorism abroad has been included in the terms of that law." "In fact, people dying in Iraq have also been included, except in one case." "The rest was not terrorism." "So that's the double morality." "Why some and not others?" "The actions of a dictatorship can be seen as acts of terrorism too." "All dictatorships are bad." "The dictatorship I at least lived under was nothing like the system we live in today." "And by a state... a state has many more means" "to do damage, hasn't it?" "The army, the armed forces." "Much more." "It's more difficult to judge a state." "Much more than judging a street gang..." "Things should only be done legally." "Otherwise anything could be done in the name of the state." "Terrorism is terrorism for all, right?" "Not only for those who say it is or it isn't." "Bush." "He's the biggest terrorist of them all." "But he's the one who calls the shots so people don't realize." "Or maybe don't want to realize." "FENCE" "WELCOME TO CEUTA" "(2001-2003) NUMBER OF ASYLUM SEEKERS: 20,964" "ASYLUM DENIED: 19,217" "(2001-2003) INTERCEPTED AT FRONTIERS: 53,607" "(2001-2003) KILLED OR MISSING AT FRONTIERS: 468" "Please," "I'm hungry, I'm afraid." "Can I come in?" "SPANISH FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS" "Welcome to our country." "We hope you have a pleasant stay." "Are you here on business or for pleasure?" "Anything to declare?" "Any whisky or cigarettes?" "Which dock does the ship sail from?" "Where's my cabin?" "Is there a reduction for children?" "I want to rent a car." "What's the daily/hourly rate?" "Can you recommend a good restaurant?" "A cup of coffee, please." "I'd like an exterior room." "Two persons, with a jacuzzi." "How long will you be staying, sir?" "Where can I change money, please?" "A traveller's cheque?" "What time is lunch?" "Serve me now, please." "I'm in a hurry." "I'll have today's set meal." "I'll start with a consomme." "Then I'll have a rare steak." "I'd like to see some original gifts." "Where is" " the shirt department?" " On the ground floor." "Can you recommend a night club that's not too expensive?" "Shampoo." "Shaving brush." "Parasol." "Waiter." "Perfume." "Lobster." "Orchid." "Sangria." "Lifejacket." " All the best." " Same to you." " Happy Easter." " Happy New Year." "Good luck." "ACCORDING TO THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, 92 BODIES OF IMMIGRANTS WERE RECOVERED LAST YEAR." "MANY MORE PROBABLY DIED." "Terrorism should be combatted by the rule of law, respecting individual liberties." "No-one may be deprived of his or her freedom." "...something I've always practised." "My brother has been at the military base in Guantanamo for 2 years and 3 months." "The UN Human Rights Commission has declared the detention of all the Guantanamo prisoners arbitrary." "Preventive detention must not last more than a strictly necessary period of time." "No charges, no evidence." "And has urged the US government to free all the prisoners there." "As I see it, international law is the basis." "...in violation of international law." "I suffer because he's my brother." "The presence of a la?" "Er is guaranteed." "No la?" "Er has seen him at Guantanamo." "The family found out from reports on TV." "Anyone who is detained must be informed of his or her rights and the reasons for his or her detention." "And the government never contacted us to tell us he was there." "No order, no judicial authority exists..." "In a period of 72 hours." "They've been virtually kidnapped." "The Guantanamo prisoners are treated as if they werert human, chained hand and foot, hooded, they can't hear anything, they can't see anything." "They shall not be tortured or punished or treated inumanely." "The treatment is inumane." "Our strength is the moral superiority of democratic systems." "They've undermined the meaning of human rights." "Guantanamo is one of the US's biggest mistakes." "It is truly surprising that our Minister of the Exterior should call a crime a mistake." "It's deplorable that anyone should say they are in a kind of limbo." "Detaining people that way is kidnapping." "She's the one in limbo, as no other member of the government has criticized the situation albeit in such a mild manner." "And we want a place in the front line in the defence of democracy..." "My brother is Spanish." "He was born in Ceuta." "He swore allegiance to the Spanish flag, he did his military service." "All Spaniards are equal." "And I would ask the government why they haven't attached any importance to my brother's case." "Because he's a Moslem or a second-class Spaniard?" "There shall be no discrimination of any kind for reasons of birth, race, creed..." "He's been discriminated against." "If his name were Juan Lopez instead of Hamed Abderraman, they'd have done something" "without waiting 2 years and 3 months." "In Spain the US has a staunch ally." "They've done everything badly, but better late than never." "All have a right to freedom and safety." "To make the world a safer, freer place." "They are trampling on the constitution and human rights." "We shall work together for democracy and freedom the world over." "Thank you." "We should get out of this as soon as possible." "We're having a bad time." "SECOND-CLASS DEATHS" "My son, Jose Couso, was in Baghdad." "He'd been sent there by Telecinco TV to cover the possible war." "And the people were working there, reporting, from where they shouldn't have been in the first place..." "And he said to me, "Mum, I have to be here because I need to tell the people what's happening." "Because they're going to storm the place."" "A colleague of mine rang me, from Telemadrid TV." "He said," ""They're attacking the Hotel Palestine."" "And I went to my daughter-in-law Lola's place." "And when Juan Pedro Valentin called her, she collapsed and I knew that Jose was dead." "Over a period of an hour and a half they attacked the offices of the news agencies there." "Three of them." "The independent ones I mean, not the embedded ones." "There was the Al-Jazeera office." "They killed Tarik Ayub." "And there was Abu Dhabi TV, a lot of people injured..." "And then the Hotel Palestine." "We said it was a deliberate attack." "Sgt. Dixon also says he didn't fire again till 10 minutes later because he asked for confirmation of the order to fire on the Hotel Palestine." "And he did it again 10 minutes later..." "He fired, of course." "A direct call from the Ministry of Defence through the minister saying they had my brother's body." "Then we got in touch with the other journalists who were there." "They had to move around Baghdad under fire, with the looting going on." "They said it was hellish, moving bodies..." "The last one was Jose's." "They'd gone back to the hotel." "Risking their lives twice over false information." "They'd fooled us twice." "We're not asking for money of anything like that." "You can't buy what we want." "We want justice, an investigation..." "It was the premeditated murder of people they had no control over." "Isn't that what governments are for?" "You vote for them so that they'll support you but we just feel forsaken and scorned." "I'll never forget that arrogant look on Aznar's face when my brother's colleagues snubbed him over the photos." "I never thought I'd envy the Ukrainians their government." "The Ukrainian government demanded justice for one of its countrymen." "They didn't believe the Americans, they gave him a medal and are still investigating." "He says the other families who kept quiet are being patriotic" "To him we're not patriots." "But we'd say to him that we see patriotism also as justice." "And the PP remind me of others who regret but don't condemn." "They've so much criticism for that party they've outlawed but they're just the same." "They haven't condemned my sors killer." "For them there are first-class and second-class deaths." "The government regrets the deaths of two Spanish journalists in Baghdad who were doing their professional duty but who unfortunately knew of the high degree of risk their presence there involved." "Unfortunately that high risk materialized." "JOSE COUSO:" "A SECOND-CLASS DEATH" "ON 26TH MAY, A UKRAINIAN YAKOLEV-42 AIRCRAFT" "CRASHED IN MASKA (TURKEY) 62 SPANISH SOLDIERS" "AND 12 UKRAINIAN CREW WERE KILLED" "I want them to tell me what happened." "And why it happened." "Nothing." "They're acting as if we were the enemy, instead of supporting us and telling us what happened." "Why did this have to happen?" "It's been 9 months since 26th May, when our 62 soldiers lost their lives and we the families have had time to calm down and analyze things without our grief affecting our judgement." "The minister said they'll go on chartering those planes, that they'll go on carrying our soldiers." "Then 6 days later, they cancel the contracts because of the alarm among the population." "But the minister of defence's job is to guarantee our safety." "And there were 14 complaints by soldiers who'd pointed out how unsafe those planes were." "It's the airline company with the highest accident rate in the world, despite the minister telling parliament that's not so." "According to all technical data, the YAK-42D is a good aircraft." "How could it be so good when one of the black boxes wasrt working?" "Everything points to human error plus an accumulation of adverse factors as the cause." "The Ministry of Defence is trying to sell us the story that it was one of the risks they assumed is despicable." "This makes me reflect on democracy." "The Spanish people should feel protected." "The Ministry of Defence says there won't be an investigation." "The government says there won't be an investigation." "The legal authorities are denying us an investigation too." "I just can't understand how that man has the nerve to stay on and hasn't tendered his resignation" " to the government." " I mean, he's got 62 deaths on his conscience and in the history of Spanish democracy no ministry has ever been involved in so many deaths." "I always knew that as a soldier my brother might be killed on one of his many missions, but never that he'd die in a plane, a plane normally used to carry freight, not our soldiers." "They didn't deserve that." "The government should have assumed the responsibility." "And of course there's no way that the money they've given me can make up for the loss of my husband and our future together." "The other reports my brother sent as Chief of Staff mentioned the bad quality of the equipment on the plane." "Why did the minister cover up that information?" "Why didn't the joint chiefs of staff, the army too, try and find out what was going on?" "So that was the way they acted." "They decided to treat the families like idiots, saying we should believe what they told us and then all shut up." "But we're not soldiers." ""At least give me the consolation of knowing the truth." "Tell me the reason for my grief." "Don't punish me any more with your indifference." "Stop fabricating lies." "Don't play games or politics with my feelings." "My grief is something real, distressing and terribly real, not a handful of words in a speech." "Be noble and won'thy as they were." "Don't hide behind excuses and half-truths and accept and face up to your responsibilities once and for all."" "TO BE CONTINUED" "THE BASQUE BALL" "I don't think that winning democratic elections necessarily means that the winner is a democrat." "The PP haven't understood the constitution or its underlying philosophy." "At the time, he voted against the constitution, as he didn't understand the autonomous communities." "They won't accept that the Basque Country is a nation." "Here we have the president of a party who in 1979 wrote a scornful criticism of Article 8." "He saw the chance for the consolidation of an idea of Spain which they saw as in decline." "They made a comparison, saying terrorism equals nationalism." "What Aznar wants is not to put an end to ETA but an end to nationalism." "A very anti-nationalist stance." "And the Basque problem has become a way for them to first of all show firmness and then win votes all over Spain." "Something which has been widely accepted by the press in Madrid." "And I say in Madrid." "Zapatero dares to say that when they govern, they'll talk to the Basque government." "But why not now?" "Wort they let him?" "There's an "us" about things and a denying of the Basque entity of anyone not in the group." "That's the worse thing about nationalism." "It's not a question of contempt but some who say they're only Basque seem to think they have more right to define Basque society." "It's true that the nationalist world has shown very little sensitivity towards victims." "It's necessary to learn from the past and its mistakes." "We must remember that forgetting is not the way." "I've always felt doubly a victim." "I mean, you're a victim of violence but also a victim of the protectors and defenders of the victims." "It now turns out that things are not just black or white..." "We must not resort to dogmatism backed up by violence." "The violence of guns or the violence of the monopoly of the state's power." "The emotional potential of terrorism is booty too important for politicians not to fight for." "With the Popular Party, all its electoral aureole, its movement and strategy, revolve around the suffering ETA's caused." "One thing Euskadi's good for is coming up with an enemy like terrorism, which serves Bush." "And as the Basque problem has also been presented as "either for me or against me,"" "no midpoint is possible." "Mention the word "dialogue" and you're a friend of ETA's, you're in favour of terrorism, not the victims, you're with the killers." "ETA must stop killing." "ETA LET US LIVE IN PEACE" "And the PP must open up to dialogue." "POLITICIANS, WE DEMAND DIALOGUE" "KONTRASTASUN VERSES BY GABRIEL CELAYA" "When we Basques talk, our speech, if not a song, is a cry." "We Basques only talk when something inside us demands valour." "We Basques don't like combining words that are more or less pretty." "We Basques despise charlatans who adorn lies." "We Basques listen to a man who, buried under centuries, bristles." "We Basques with great effort pull the can't of the verse that screeches." "We Basques fight." "We Basques strike by raising life." "We Basques are serious." "Serious is our work." "Serious is our joy." "We Basques are true men, not scatterbrains clowning around." "I am Basque in my work," "I am Basque in my reasons, and in peace, and in rage." "I am Basque from within, and in the sacred night and the trembling of the day and in all I say and in all I keep quiet." "More Basque than Sabino." "TO THE VICTIMS OF TERRORISM" "A DINNER OF CAPTAINS" "We, captains of the Merchant Navy, wish to show our solidarity" "with Apostolos Mangouras, captain of the "Prestige,"" "whom the government has used as a scapegoat to elude its responsibilities." "Mangouras was sailing down from the English Channel to Finisterre, a norwesterly wind was blowing and a ballast tank burst." "The crew heard an explosion or something similar." "Immediately after, the ship began to list to starboard and everything indicated it would ultimately capsize." "But he saw that the ship could be saved and the pollution avoided." "He faced up to his responsibilities and did the right thing." "Mangouras acted like a hero." "He stayed with his ship to the very end." "It would have been easier to board a helicopter, get out and go back to Greece." "Captain Master Apostolos Mangouras, we, seafaring men like yourself, by virtue of our nautical knowledge and experience as navigators, know that you faced up to the accident suffered by the "Prestige"" "on the afternoon of 13th November with a courage and professionalism going far beyond the call of duty of a good captain." "We therefore consider your present situation both unfair and incomprehensible..." "Far from home, deprived of your freedom." "Apostolos Mangouras was arrested." "He spent 84 days in jail." "He is now out of prison on bail." "He is in Barcelona, where he must report to the police every day." "His trial will not take place until 2005 at the earliest." "MAYDAY:" "GENERAL CALL" "SHIT" "NEVER AGAIN" "If you werert a woman I'd..." "Let them stand around barking out their resentment if they like." "What then it is that, after what I said in December, after what we said and what I said last Friday, I say today?" "Just this." "And to say that it's over." "Let them stand around barking out their resentment if they like." "If you werert a woman I'd..." "Bring in the riot squad." "Let them stand around barking out their resentment if they like." "What then is it that, after what I said in December, after what we said and what I said last Friday, I say today?" "Just this." "And to say that it's over." "The fuel oil is still cooling." "It is leaking out in small trickles." "Those who have seen it tell me there are 4 leaks." "4 solid plasticine-like leaks stretching upward." "It is a great honour that the Autonomous Community should reward individual or group merits..." "Bring in the riot squad." "TECHNIQUES FOR A COUP D'ETAT" "4TH FEBRUARY 1874" "GENERAL PAVIA ENTERS THE HOUSE" "AND ORDERS PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED" "THUS ENDS THE FIRST REPUBLIC" "THUS ENDS THE SECOND REPUBLIC" "On the floor!" "23 FEBRUARY 1981" "THUS ENDS THE MODERATE RIGHT" "JULY/AUGUST 2003" "THUS ENDS THE BIPARTITE SYSTEM AT THE MADRID ASSEMBLY" "They should leave us alone to earn our money honestly." "My money." "And we dedicated time last night and this morning to just that." "Public life should not be disturbed." "People will be able to go on going to cinemas and restaurants." "It must be done in the name of the law." "Recourse to great words is fundamental." "Freedom, Constitution." "Human Rights, Democracy." "Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press." "Freedom." "Freedom." "Controlling the media, upholding lies, denying the evidence." "If all goes wrong, there is always one last resort..." ""What money cannot do, a lot of money can." - capitalist maxim" "ELECTIONS IN CATALONIA" "ESQUERRA HAS THE KEY TO GOVERNMENT" "MARAGALL: "THE LEFT HAS WON WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTS"" "RAJOY DEFENDS A GOVERNMENT OF "STABILITY"" "WITHOUT ESQUERRA" "MARAGALL HOLDS OUT HIS HAND TO THE PP" "DURING HIS SWEARING IN AS PRES." "I prefer to put it another way..." "Every time the PP is in danger of losing power, strange things happen." "I wonder why, my colleagues." "Two goals:" "To destroy the lbarretxe Plan and the Catalan tripartite." "Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna has told" "Euskalerria and the people of Catalonia that it is suspending its campaign of armed action in Catalonia." "THAT CAME OVER AS VERY NATURAL." "WHEN DO WE GET PAID?" "WHEN WE'VE FINISHED THE SERIES." "TO BE CONTINUED" "THE PAST THAT AWAITS YOU" "It is leaking out in trickles." "Those who have seen it tell me there are 4 leaks..." "The international community believes that Iraq has WMD." "All housing built in Spain, and I say all, is sold, often before construction begins." "GIVE THEM YOUR SUPPORT" "THAT PESKY FLY" "Neither more nor less, nor less nor more." "Just that." "NEVER AGAIN" "EPILOGUE" ""No war."" "It was a roar repeated in every corner of the planet, but Bush, Blair and Aznar ignored it." "Meeting in the Azores, they declared war on Iraq." "In Spain, general elections are held." "Montse, I'm at Atocha, there's been a bomb on the train and we've had..." "Help!" "And there is a chain of explosions on 4 Madrid-bound trains." "Almost 200 dead, 1,500 injured, the greatest ever terrorist attack in Europe." "At the beginning, suspicion focuses on ETA." "We find the atrocities committed tremendously repugnant." "To all Basque men and women, to Basque society and also to Spanish society I wish to express my conviction that ETA is writing its final pages." "Neither from the targets nor the modus operandi can it be affirmed that ETA is behind what has happened in Madrid." "SO..." "WHO WAS IT?" "Soon after, some foreign media suspect" "Al Qaeda and ask the Spanish government." "At this moment the security forces and corps of the Interior Ministry have no doubt at all that those responsible for this attack belong to the ETA terrorist group." "We are also seeing a smear campaign led by Mr. Otegi most maliciously to divert the attention." "The government immediately reported on and evaluated the many signs which logically point or may point to the group, a terrorist group well-known in Spain, as responsible." "And I have done it personally..." "With all the editors of the Madrid and Barcelona newspapers." "But it turned out that there had not been a smear campaign." "But the President, when he called the newspaper editors or addressed the nation, should not have presented as certainties what were simple logical deductions, for at that moment deductions were all there were." "I got a call, as did many other foreign corespondents I know." "A call saying, "For us it was ETA." "For you it has to be ETA too." It's crystal clear and you can't let us down."" "It was the kind of call putting pressure on you." "I'd call it manipulation." "It was a case of trying to make people believe what you want them to believe." "This had never happened to me." "In any country I've ever been in before." "The Exterior Ministry urged its ambassadors to confirm ETA as responsible, taking advantage of any opportunity to do so." "They also put pressure on the UN, which complied with Spairs wishes." "Days later," "Spain was reproached for lying." "I think that some people inside the government were convinced, probably including Aznar, that if ETA was responsible they'd win an absolute majority but that if it was Islamic terrorism, they could lose the election." "Al Qaeda claimed responsibility through a London newspaper." "Today I spoke to my colleague the British Home Secretary, and everyone there has doubts as to the credibility of the communique." "The government continues to insist that ETA is the prime suspect." "There was no reason at the time for it not to be the main line of investigation." "Who was it?" "Who was it?" "11,000,000 people turn out the next day in reaction to the massacre." "The ETA theory loses ground and the suspicion grows that it was an Islamic attack in response to Spairs participation in the war." "In Barcelona, ministers and government party members are booed and insulted." "Murderers!" "Spanish Television supresses any information which might lead viewers into thinking that ETA did not commit the massacre." "Then it begins cutting off press conferences with Acebes whenever he is asked about the possibility of Arabic extremism." "It also ceases to broadcast Otegi's statement when, on the first day," "Thursday 11th, a few hours after the attack, he said it had not been ETA." "Who was it?" "Who was it?" "In front of PP party headquarters, the people ask for facts." "Suspects have been arrested." "None has any connection with ETA." "We cannot discard anything, and we have not, since the time we instructed the police to continue investigating every possible lead, especially the two leads we had reasons to investigate." "Everyone in Europe knows!" "THAT NIGHT..." "Before we vote we want the truth!" "At this very moment, an illegal and unlawful demonstration is taking place around party headquarters accusing the Popular Party of serious offenses." "Spanish Television changes its programming and screens "Murder in February,"" "a documentary on the attack on the Basque Socialist Fernando Buesa and his bodyguard by ETA." "The aim is to link this attack to the Atocha massacre." "What Spanish Television did was disinform the people so that they would go out and vote on the 14th without knowing what had happened." "The government was afraid, the PP was obviously afraid that if the people knew it hadrt been ETA but possibly some Arab organization punishing Spain for its part in the war, then they would vote differently." "Liars!" "Liars!" "The government reveals the existence of a video from a radical Islamic group claiming responsibility." "It has been made by someone calling himself" "Al Qaeda's military spokesman in Europe," "Abu Dujan al-Afghani." "This persors identity has not been confirmed by the Spanish services or by the international intelligence services" "we have asked to cooperate in this matter." "Three days after the Madrid massacre, the turnout of Spanish voters is massive." "Despite all the evidence, only the government and its party continue to maintain that ETA is responsible." "The priority terrorist organization is ETA." "Therefore the government's priority has always been the terrorist organization ETA, and as progress has been made in the investigation," "I have been keeping you informed." "I think the Spanish people realized that this was just the last lie in a long series of lies." "And they couldn't take this because you could lie about the YAK-42 because no-one knew exactly what had happened, but with the impact of 202 dead, you couldn't lie." "It was an unacceptable lie." "The last straw." "The Spanish Socialist Party has won the election." "President!" "The ballot boxes have been very clear." "No war!" "No war!" "Only a handful supporters cheered the leaders of the Popular Party." "Outside Spain, there is no doubt about it." "Aznar's government lied." "An experiment that didn't work out." "Oh, well, just too bad." "We'll rest a few days and then get back to work." "WITH GOOD REASON!" "...REASON TO THINK." "THIS FILM WAS MADE POSSIBLE" "BY THE PEOPLE WHO GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED IT" "SOME OF THEM ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CREDITS" "FOR FEAR OF REPRISALS" "OUR THANKS TO THEM ALL"