I find that reading the press in English is a great
way to be both informed an learning English. Next week I will ask
you to write a summary of one of the articles shown below or any you may find
interesting.
1.Judge sends
Mario Conde to jail for money laundering and tax fraud
Spanish High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz decided on Wednesday to send
disgraced ex bank chief Mario Conde to prison while an investigation into
allegations that he laundered millions of euros back into Spain from accounts
held abroad continues. The former chairman of Banesto’s children, Alejandra and
Mario, as well as his lawyer, are also under suspicion for supposedly creating
a network of companies in Spain and other countries that were used for moving
the money that Conde embezzled from the Spanish lender in the 1990s...
To go on reading:
Vocabulary:
Money laundering :
lavado de cartos
Embezzle: defraudar
Bail: fianza
Maze: entramado,
laberinto
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2. REFUGEE CRISIS Brussels rebukes Spain for failing to take in
refugees
Spain has only taken in 18 refugees since
September 2015, when European countries pledged to help people
fleeing conflict in Syria.
In March, the Spanish government
promised to speed up that rate by accepting 467 new refugees within that same
month.
But a European Commission report
shows that nearly two weeks after the deadline expired, not a single one of
those 467 people has arrived on Spanish soil.
To go on reading:
rebuke:
reprochar
pledge
: prometer, dar a palabra
flee:fuxir
soil:
chan, territorio
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José Manuel Soria has already resigned but read
about what he has said along the week. Lies, lies, lies.
3. Industry minister
agrees to talk about Panama Papers firm in Congress
Acting
Industry Minister José Manuel Soria has backtracked on his earlier refusal to
provide Congress with explanations about his alleged involvement in the Panama Papers scandal.
On Tuesday,
Soria told reporters that he will appear in the lower house next week to
discuss why his name shows up on a list of officials of an offshore company.
The acting
minister said it was “a mistake” that briefly saw his name appear on the list
of directors of UK Lines Ltd., which was incorporated in the Bahamas in the
1990s. This piece of information was part of a trove of 11.5 million files held
by a Panama-based law firm and leaked to the media.
To go on reading:
Backtrack: retractarse, dar marcha
atrás
Provide: dar
Lower house: congreso,
Trove: tesouro
Tax haven: paraiso fiscal
Offshore: fóra do control
financieiro
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4. The chart that proves that Spanish schedules are downright weird
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A shorter, easier text.
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