El Mundo is the second largest newspaper in Spain, with a circulation of 350,297 copies (2003). It first appeared on October 23, 1989, founded by Alfonso de Salas, Pedro J. Ramírez, Balbino Fraga and Juan González. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pedro José Ramírez Codina (Logroño, 1952), Spanish journalist, known as Pedro J. Ramírez. ...

It has its headquarters in Madrid, but different editions are printed in national territories, such as Andalusia, Valencia, Castile and Leon, Balearic Islands, Bilbao, etc. Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator Andalucía por sí, para España y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humankind) Capital Seville Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 2nd  87 268 km²  17,2% Population  â€“ Total (2005)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 1st  7. ... The Hemispheric at the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències by Santiago Calatrava, Valencia, Spain. ... Capital Valladolid Area  – Total  – % of Spain Ranked 1st  94,223 km²  18,6% Population  – Total (2003)  – % of Spain  – Density Ranked 6th  2,480,369  5. ... Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 17th  4 992 km²  1,0% Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 14th  916 968  2,2%  183,69/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Catalan  â€“ Spanish Balearic balear balear Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166... Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Basque Country and the capital of the province of Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia). ...

El Mundo has played a key role in uncovering several scandals. Among them was the embezzlement of the Guardia Civil commander, Luis Roldán, and the governor of the Central Bank of Spain, Mariano Rubio, who was accused of insider trading and tax fraud. El Mundo also gave publicity to connections between the terrorist Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) and the socialist administration of Felipe González, a news story that contributed to the defeat of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in the 1996 elections. Patrol boat, Nervion river, Bilbao. ... The Banco de España (Bank of Spain) is the national central bank of Spain. ... In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain, although it has a more specific legal meaning, the exact details varying between jurisdictions. ... Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (Antiterrorist Liberation Groups) were death squads illegally set up by officials within the Spanish government to fight ETA. It was financed and protected by the Spanish Interior Ministry. ... Felipe González Márquez (born March 5, 1942) was a Spanish socialist politician. ... José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in a meeting in San Sebastián The Spanish Socialist Workers Party, commonly abbreviated by its Spanish initials, PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), is a major party in Spain and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in 1833. ... Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. ...

In October, 2005, El Mundo revealed that Nazi Aribert Heim (aka "Doctor Death") has been living for 20 years in Spain, probably due to help to ODESSA network, among whom were the henchmen of Otto Skorzeny, who had helped set up one of the most important ODESSA bases in Franco's Spain. Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ex-Nazis are those who were once Nazis and resigned from the party. ... Aribert Heim Aribert Heim (born June 28, 1914) is an Austrian doctor and one of the worlds most wanted Nazi war criminals. ... Dr. Death is a moniker that has been attached to multiple people: Jack Kevorkian, an American physician who assisted terminally ill people commit suicide during the 1990s Jayant Patel, an Indian-trained doctor who is accused of gross incompetence leading to the deaths of many patients in Queensland, Australia Steve... ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, Organization of Former SS-Members) was/is an international Nazi network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers, among whom were Martin Bormann and Heinrich Himmler. ... Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny (June 12, 1908 - July 5, 1975) was a Obersturmbannführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. He is best-known as the commando leader who rescued Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after his overthrow. ... Francisco Franco Bahamonde Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (pron. ...

El Mundo newspaper continues to support largely baseless conspiracy theories relating the Terrorist attacks of 2003 to a vast conspiracy to remove the conservative government of Jose María Aznar from office. These theories consider that the Socialist Party (PSOE), ETA as well as members of the security forces and national and foreign secret services were implicated in the bombings.El Mundo article defending a number of conspiracy theories related to the bombings In May 2006 the Newspaper published it had discovered a supposed clear link between the Madrid bombings and ETA. It had discovered that a business card with the name of a company based in the Basque country (Mondragon SL) had been discovered in the van which was used by the Terrorists. It was later discovered that what was discovered was a CD of the popular music group "Orquesta Mondragon" in a pile of various CDs.

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