ILDEFONSO OLMEDO
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The year started with a terrible omen for Europe: Brexit.
And from then on everything went downhill and without brakes.
The sewers of the State overflowed there by Villarejo, the emeritus king went abroad, the seditious of Catalonia tried to laugh at the jail, where even Bárcenas's wife has ended up, life has become for many a field of eres / ertes , they want to whitewash bloodthirsty, cancer grips the daring, Pedro Duque will not be shot into space ... and from 8-M the party is over.
The virus arrived and he shut up.
2020?
What a chore!
A year of mourning, with a long time of hidden coffins.
This is how we focus on Chronicle ... on 11 covers and a double of 'cruella' Corinna and her prince.
Long-range reports that had their most successful version on the internet with the interview that Fran Carrión conducted with the escaped Chinese virologist Li_Meng Yan, convinced that the origin of Covid-19 is not natural nor did it start in the Wuham market.
Almost two million people read it in elmundo.es
Sunday March 8
The lessons and traps of Professor Junqueras.
And your photo from jail
The whole truth of the 'cum laude' and other tricks that tricked him into jail doors
By LEYRE IGLESIAS
On the appointed date of 8-M, we showed the photo of Oriol Junqueras Vies prison, and we revealed the whole truth of the 'cum laude' and the short course on Western Thought that had tricked him open the prison doors.
Later we discovered how he had an office 16 km.
de Lledoners, at the Follonosa City Council facilities.
There he received visits, presided over meetings or spent hours with the so-called 'architect of the process', the ERC man who negotiates with Pedro Sánchez.
The Supreme Court this month overthrew the semi-freedoms of Junqueras and the rest of those sentenced by 1-O, considering them "premature."
The Prosecutor's Office has also just reported against the 1-O pardons: “It is not a measure to satisfy short-term political interests.” Prosecutors warn of the seriousness of the penalties for which the pro-independence leaders were convicted and insist that they do not they have repented
Sunday April 5.
Julia, the earliest victim of the coronavirus
The unborn baby of 35 weeks and three days died in the womb of her young mother, positive for coronavirus, when she underwent an emergency cesarean section. The mother's name was Fani, she was 37 years old and had no previous ailments. Then, in April, another 18 young people (in their 30s and 20s) had already died in Spain from the virus. And not all of them had previous pathologies.
Fani died in the Teresa Herrera hospital in A Coruña during an emergency cesarean section in which her baby, Julia, was born dead, becoming the earliest victim of the pandemic in Spain until April.
The mother was 37 years old and had a pregnancy of 35 weeks and three days without any complications.
She entered the hospital on her own feet, with a few tenths of fever and abdominal pain, they activated the covid protocol and her husband was not allowed to accompany her.
Hours later, they warned him that they had died and the mother tested positive for coronavirus.
Without being able to ask for an autopsy, the bodies were cremated and the ashes ended up together in an urn.
Dejected and bewildered, the family asked for answers and the doctors explained that "they found no other similar published case."
Fani and Julia's family lived through a complicated grief in the middle of the pandemic and had to reach higher health authorities than the hospital to gather the clinical history of what happened from the mother's admission in an apparent early delivery until the death of both. the case in the hands of a specialist in health law and, nine months later, he has still not decided whether to file a criminal complaint.
The Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into what happened at the request of an association about which the family has had no news.
[The story was published on the cover of
Crónica
with a design that was awarded a bronze in the prestigious ÑH20 Awards for journalistic design of the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design (SNDE) and the SND South America]
Sunday, July 26.
A prince, the boy from Corinna's letters
Why the ex-lover of the emeritus mentions so much in her letters to the Royal House her son Alexander
By MARTÍN MUCHA
We chose to headline the report, double page: Corinna's letter boy.
And in it we told why the former lover who received the 60 million from the king emeritus mentions, in the letters of the alleged blackmail to the Royal House, up to four times her son Alexander, who is already 18 years old.
And that for years he called the emeritus "papa".
She herself, through her lawyers, gave the journalist Martín Much more detail about the entire movement of money.
He referred to his own son as "His Serene Highness Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
She with her lawyers and her communication team work, from London, for her counteroffensive.
The Swiss Prosecutor's Office is on the lookout.
Sunday June 14.
DUKE, WITH AN ASTRONAUT COSTUME AND WITHOUT CAPTAINING THE EUROPEAN AGENCY
After rescuing his Astronaut suit from Russia, the Minister of Science spoke, and posed like this, of his challenges: "Bring back the talent that left." Whether he said: "Today I would return to space." The cover was shocking.
By PACO REGO
It was one of those difficult days for any journalist to forget.
In front of him he had the only minister in the world who has been off Earth and, on the other hand, the astronaut suit with which he had flown into space twice.
Pedro Duque was very generous in allowing El Mundo's head of photography, Carlos García Pozo, that afternoon to turn the minister-astronaut's spacious office into a makeshift photographic studio.
Days before, Duque had finally managed to recover the Falcon (name of the suit) that until then had been guarded in Russia, in the Zvezda company museum, which sets the trends in space clothing.
The same one where the costumes for the movie 'Gravity' were made.
What happened there left us all speechless.
It is difficult to imagine the ritual that an astronaut must follow when dressing.
The precision in each movement, the concentration ... Seeing Duque put on that kind of semi-rigid 'placenta', weighing 8 kilos, 43 pieces in total, was quite a spectacle.
A historical document that would occupy the front page of our newspaper, adding one more exclusive to 'Chronicle', whose first page already reported that Pedro Duque was the candidate to lead ESA.
What came after that February afternoon, and ended up delaying the release of the report, was the pandemic.
As Minister of Science and Innovation, Duque was going to have what might be the most difficult mission of his life.
Against all odds, the minister became almost invisible while some of the most relevant Spanish scientists, such as Mariano Barbacid, publicly wondered why the laboratories were closed in the middle of the pandemic, when they were most needed.
An error to which other bad news would later be added: Pedro Duque, the great Spanish hope to lead the space race of the Old Continent, was ruled out to command ESA as he and President Sánchez intended.
A sum and continues of mishaps that ended with the loss of the Spanish satellite Ingenio due to a critical failure of the Italian rocket that exploded 8 minutes after takeoff.
Thus ruining a mission in which our country had invested 200 million euros in the development and manufacture of the Ingenio.
Despite everything, Duque must be thanked for having made Spain appear in the select club of countries that have flown into space with an exceptional crew member and so far unique.
Sunday, July 26.
Chinese virologist on the run: "The origin of the virus is not natural"
The exclusive interview that traveled the world of Dr. Li_Meng Yan. His thesis tries to dismantle "the lie of the coronavirus."
By FRAN CARRIÓN
It was an exclusive interview that went around the world.
Widely cited by other media, it broke reading records on the EL MUNDO website and set a trend for days on social networks.
The Chinese doctor Li-Meng Yan denounced in these pages the "lie" of the coronavirus, the strategy of Beijing -in her opinion- to spread a virus that already adds more than 80 million infections and 1.7 million deaths around the planet .
"I do not believe that its origin is natural or that this disease is an accident. So, according to this, the entire pandemic could have been avoided," said the virologist, tanned in a reference laboratory of the World Health Organization at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
Since fleeing Hong Kong last April, Li-Meng Yan has resided in the United States.
He leads a team of Chinese scientists who, sheltered from opposition to the communist regime, gather evidence of what they consider to be an artificially created virus.
The virologist warns that Beijing will try, from now on, to deny that Wuhan was the epicenter of the pandemic that has put the world in check.
"Patient zero is like the real death toll from Covid-19 in China. We will never know it," the scientist tells
Chronicle
.
Yan is also suspicious of studies that indicate that the virus was circulating outside China at the end of the summer of 2019. "It is very beneficial data for the Chinese government that will try with all its might to blame other countries for the pandemic, such as a offender happy to see an erroneous test that can free him from punishment, "he predicts.
Sunday August 2.
The lawyer that Podemos and Iglesias wanted to destroy
With a false accusation of sexual abuse he puts the vice president in trouble. "The Dina case is a set-up and since I could dismantle it, they destroyed my life with a false sexual accusation."
By ESTEBAN URREIZTIETA
José Manuel Calvente joined Podemos as a lawyer for Pablo Iglesias for minor matters.
His dedication, coupled with his procedural successes, promoted him to the position of legal coordinator of the party.
Any judicial matter had to pass through his hands to direct the strategy to follow.
Until Iglesias put the 'Dina case' on the table.
He told him that the state sewers had to be accused of having stolen the cell phone of his former assistant Dina Bousselham in a police operation that never existed.
Calvente refused and warned the Podemos leader that lying before the National High Court would lead to problems.
That refusal cost him expulsion from the party and a false accusation of sexual harassment.
Calvente broke his silence exclusively for 'Crónica' and his testimony, ratified weeks later before Judge García Castellón, provoked the reasoned exposition of the instructor against the vice president of the Government who has placed him on the brink of indictment.
The sweet taste of revenge: One year after Podemos expelled José Manuel Calvente from the party and Pablo Iglesias himself publicly accused him of having sexually harassed his former partner Marta Flor, time has only given him the reason to the lawyer.
The Provincial Court of Madrid has just definitively rejected that he tried to abuse Pablo Iglesias' personal lawyer.
But, in addition, the party has admitted that it unfairly dismissed Calvente and has been forced to compensate him for it.
The chats of the legal team, where they warned the leadership that they could not accuse Interior with falsehoods before a judge of the National Court, have turned the film around in record time, placing Calvente as the only victim of the 'Dina case 'which cost him his defenestration.
As a last gesture towards the party, he paid attention to Iglesias when he said that if someone had evidence against Podemos, what they had to do is take them before a judge.
He did, and thanks to his complaint, the party and the Praetorian Guard of Iglesias are already charged with alleged irregular financing.
Sunday, August 23.
Plácido Domingo: "I have never abused anyone"
Interview with the opera singer on his return to the stage after two investigations in the US that exempt him on the alleged sexual harassment. "I have to go back to acting in Spain," he wished. They won't let you.
By DARÍO PRIETO
Just a year after the accusations of abuse and sexual harassment against him began, Plácido Domingo gave
Crónica
an exclusive interview to put an end to 12 months 'horribilis'.
It was in Naples, where the singer resumed his concert activity after a few months of forced retirement due to the covid, which had him admitted to a hospital in Acapulco (Mexico).
Considered "the best tenor of all time" by the BBC, the now baritone once again insisted on his innocence, and wielded the results of two investigations in the United States, where the indictment process began.
In front of the Castel dell'Ovo, a bitter reflection: "A public figure has many friends and, I understood late, also many enemies. And the worst thing is that some enemies pose as friends."
On January 21, Plácido Domingo turns 80.
What would have to be a great commemoration of one of the most important figures in Spanish culture will be somewhat diluted in our country, because of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
While his European agenda continues to add performances and international television networks prepare specials about him, his compatriots still cannot see him perform live due to the boycott against him imposed by the Ministry of Culture of José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, due to what Domingo considers a "misunderstanding" in the news published about investigations of his behavior.
Domingo advises: he doesn't have much time left before he announces his retirement.
Will the reunion with the Spanish public be possible before that happens?
Sunday, August 30.
"They don't call me nice ... but I sympathize"
The most in-depth interview with Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo after being set aside as PP spokesperson in Congress. He announced that he would continue in the game and that he would not shut up. There it continues. And without counting for yours.
By RAFA LATORRE
It was his first major interview after his dismissal as spokesman for the PP in Congress and in it Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo revealed her decision: "For the moment, I'm staying, I'm going to find out how far freedom goes in a grassroots deputy ... I would like to show that freedom is not indiscipline. "
It said much more.
Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo immediately verified how abrupt the dissident's fall into a partitocracy is.
Since the publication of that cover in Crónica, he has not returned to sit in his seat in Congress.
The capacity restrictions imposed by the pandemic limited the presence of the deputies to half and she, which was Pablo Casado's main bet upon his arrival to the presidency of the PP, no longer counts even among the top 40.
Álvarez de Toledo remains indomitable and turns his reflections on the political news on YouTube into some Catilinaries of intelligence and unusual freedom for the usual style of a deputy, more prone to zasca than to rehearsal and to applause than to nuance.
Soon, after his ouster as spokesman, he received very encouraging news: the Constitutional Court admitted his appeal against the decision of the president of Congress Meritxell Batet to withdraw from the Diary of Sessions the claim that Pablo Iglesias is the son of a terrorist.
The PP had refused to cover the expenses for the presentation of the appeal and Álvarez de Toledo collected what was necessary quickly through a collection.
In 2021 he will publish a highly anticipated book about his recent political experience.
Sunday, October 11
Josu Ternera: a terrorist disguised as a dandy in Paris
Orchestrated operation to whitewash the ETA chief who had so much killed.
By IÑAKI GIL and ÁNGELES ESCRIVÁ
On October 11, the cover of Crónica showed some neat photos of Josu Ternera posing in Paris to unmask the money laundering operation orchestrated to present the terrorist as another 'man of peace'.
His outfits concealed the truth of the detainee, with a careless appearance, in May 2019 in the French Alps after 17 years escaping from justice.
Since that cover of
Chronicle
, José Antonio Urrutikoetxea has continued trying to establish his story, presenting himself as a key man in the negotiation with the Spanish Government.
In an interview with "Berria 'he even boasts of having left" Norway with a diplomatic passport. "That will be one of Josu Ternera's lines of argument in the two causes for which he will be played in France. In both cases he was convicted in absentia but, once arrested, he availed himself of his right to be tried. The first hearing is scheduled for February, the other not before the summer. That makes it unlikely that he will be extradited to Spain next year. Spain has obtained the go-ahead two of his petitions: A final lawsuit, related to the murder of a Michelin executive, will be heard on 6 January.
In the newspaper 'Berria', Ternera tries to whitewash the gang's past with this contortion about violence that "was never the objective of ETA, because it was a political organization that used the armed struggle as a political instrument."
Although of course, "The one who uses it already knows - also the enemy - that it can cause damage, and the organization has always tried to avoid such collateral damage."
Sunday, October 18.
Rosalía Iglesias, the red line of Bárcenas
The former treasurer of the PP had always threatened to pull the blanket if his wife ended up in prison. And there it is.
By LEYRE IGLESIAS
If she went to jail, he had said that he would pull the blanket, and there was even talk of a secret flash drive.
After the judgment of the Supreme Court, on the cover of the Chronicle of October 18 we said that the "reckless" Rosalía Iglesias was awaiting her entry into prison: 12 years for money laundering, tax crimes ... Although she says she lived "in the worlds of Yupi "and was unaware of her husband's maneuvers in the PP.
The lengthy judgment of the Supreme Court on the 'Gürtel case' had confirmed days before the greatest fear of the marriage: neither will she be saved from going to prison.
Rosalía Iglesias, who always maintained that she was signing blindly what her husband put ahead of her, actively participated in the entire criminal network drawn up by Bárcenas, according to the ruling, which, yes, has lowered her sentence from 15 years to 12 years and 11 months in jail.
Spied on by the police in the 'Kitchen operation', betrayed by her driver (infiltrator) and even handcuffed with her son by a false priest in her luxurious Madrid apartment, her relatives said that she was going through hell and that the horizon of the jail " terrifies her. "
She is the daughter of a truck driver and Jorge Verstrynge, for whom she was secretary in the Popular Alliance, says that Bárcenas has been for her the prince who became a toad.
She is no longer fooled: it was she who leaked Rajoy's messages ("Luis, be strong") and also who put the friends who abandoned them firm.
"Land, fat man, land!", He told Bárcenas before so much betrayal.
She is currently in the Alcalá Meco prison.
Her husband, in Soto del Real, has desisted from requesting the transfer, as the change would mean losing the prison benefits that he has obtained in the prison where he is serving his sentence.
These days ago Bárcena declared to the judge from jail that he had been threatened that his wife would end up behind bars if she blamed the PP leadership in her statement.
Sunday, November 15.
IN THE OFFICE OF THE GREAT RECORDER, THE CURATOR VILLAREJO
Portrait of the jailed commissioner José Villarejo and his 'DNA of the frog'. He came to accumulate 80 terabytes for his blackmail and business. From the sewers it was believed to be above the State.
By ILDEFONSO OLMEDO and LEYRE IGLESIAS
"I am the dick," he said, yelling at himself.
Now a prisoner, and at the center of multiple judicial processes, the retired commissioner José Villarejo knows that his fate is cast.
A book, 'Invented Spain.
In the footsteps of Villarejo 'he has traced his entire life from El Carpio, where the office on the ninth floor of Torre Picasso was born, where he was powerful, to cell 3 where he is no longer neither Pepe nor the dreaded blackmail police.
He is prisoner 2017014718 and he has severe back pain.
After the publication of the report, on Sunday, November 15, the judicial news of the case has not ceased: imputation of Mauricio Casals, president of
La Razón,
confrontation between former minister Fernández Díaz and number two for the espionage of Bárcenas, statement from the jail of the former treasurer ... Podemos has tried unsuccessfully, by opposing both the PSOE and the PP, for the commissioner to appear in Congress in the Kitchen commission.
His leaks about Corinna's dealings with the King Emeritus continue to be traced by the Swiss prosecutor's office.
On November 1, on another cover of
Crónica
, the protagonist was
Commissioner Villarejo's talent scout wife,
Gemma Alcalá.
It was signed by Leyre Iglesias and we told the judicial record of the second wife of the former police officer.
Arrested again and charged with crimes that could cost her up to 85 years in prison, the judge believes that she is selling sensitive information about her husband, imprisoned in Estremera
Sunday, November 22
SPIRIMAN: "I WILL SURVIVE"
The struggling doctor from Granada: "I think that everyone should have cancer to value life."
By MARTÍN MUCHA
He has just published a book and is now fighting the most decisive battle, and not precisely against any politician he has insulted so much.
The doctor who put Andalusian health on a war footing against the Government of Susana Díaz, almost like a superhero, has a widespread cancer.
He dreamed it, he tells us, a few days before being diagnosed.
"I have metastases in bones, liver, kidneys, in the other lung. They gave me months to live. I was amazed. Before my birthday I had already died once."
From his most viral cry against young people, "Go to hell", here he goes on to speak to us almost in whispers about his challenge.
This is how the Granada-born in struggle is sincere, whose videos on YouTube have 60 million views.
An intimate conviction: "... I think that everyone should have cancer to value life. It makes you a better person."
An outward reflection: "Much of the bad that happens in Spain politics is because here the left is manipulative. And the right is stupid and self-conscious."
The Granada doctor does not stop in his fight against metastasis.
He is in an experimental treatment that is giving good results.
Although, sometimes, like this Christmas he has relapsed, he is not without hope.
Now he wants to set up an oncological physiotherapy unit in his Granada.
"I will never give up," says Spiriman.
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