{"id":1304,"date":"2014-11-09T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2014-11-09T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:19:07","slug":"its-official-spain-is-unraveling-wolf-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Spain is Unraveling | Wolf Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2014\/11\/07\/its-official-spain-is-unraveling\/\">It\u2019s Official: Spain is Unraveling | Wolf Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\">While the Rajoy government fiddles in its endemic culture of corruption, the people simmer with anger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">B<\/em><\/strong><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">y<\/em><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\u00a0Don Quijones<\/em><\/strong><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">, freelance writer, translator in Barcelona, Spain. Editor at<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/author\/don-quijones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\">WOLF STREET<\/span><\/span><\/a>. Mexico is his country-in-law.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/ragingbullshit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\">Raging Bull-Shit<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is his modest attempt to scrub away the lathers of soft soap peddled by political and business leaders and their loyal mainstream media.\u00a0This article is a Wolf Street exclusive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">Since taking office in late 2011, Rajoy\u2019s government has been embroiled in one sordid political scandal after another. In the latest episode, the Punica Affair, more than 100 politicians have been arrested and charged with varying acts of white collar crime, including taking kick backs from private sector companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">Payment often came in the form of cash-stuffed envelopes although, as El Confidencial\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/espana\/2014-11-05\/a-granados-y-a-los-politicos-se-les-pagaba-con-putas-con-vacaciones-con-casas_435644\/\">reports<\/a>, it could also include completely free-of-charge construction work on a politicians\u2019 property, luxury holidays, hunting trips and even an intimate evening or two with a high-class prostitute. Most of the politicians involved in the scandal are \u2013 or at least were \u2013 members of the governing Popular Party. The rest belong \u2013 or at least belonged \u2013 to the other partner in Spain\u2019s (until now) two-party system, the not-really-socialist-at-all party, the PSOE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Official: Spain is Unraveling | Wolf Street. While the Rajoy government fiddles in its endemic culture of corruption, the people simmer with anger. By\u00a0Don Quijones, freelance writer, translator in Barcelona, Spain. Editor atWOLF STREET. Mexico is his country-in-law.\u00a0\u00a0Raging Bull-Shit\u00a0is his modest attempt to scrub away the lathers of soft soap peddled by political and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,968,743],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}