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Ana Terradillos
Ana Terradillos Azpiroz (born 1 October 1973) is a Spanish journalist and TV presenter. A frequent collaborator on Telecinco and Cuatro programmes, she has been the host of Telecinco's breakfast show ''La mirada crítica'' since 2023. Biography Terradillos graduated in journalism at the University of Navarra in 1996 and in Political Science at UNED in 2002. She started working in the media in 1998: she started at Cadena COPE in her native San Sebastián, yet soon moved to Cadena SER. In 2003 she started to cover the Iraq War, from which she eventually branched out into specialising in covering terrorist groups more generally, such as ETA and Al-Qaeda. During 2005 she travelled to the Middle East on various occasions, to cover various conflicts in areas including Gaza, as well as reporting on terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, as well as Salafi groups linked to Al-Qaeda in the south of Lebanon. In 2011 Terradillos moved to Mediaset to appear i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastián
San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián (, ), is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, from the France–Spain border. The capital city of the province of Gipuzkoa, the municipality's population is 188,102 as of 2021, with its metropolitan area reaching 436,500 in 2010. Locals call themselves ''donostiarra'' (singular) in Basque, also using this term when speaking in Spanish. It is also a part of Basque Eurocity Bayonne-San Sebastián. The economic activities in the city are dominated by the service sector, with an emphasis on commerce and tourism, as San Sebastián has long been well-known as a tourist destination. Despite the city's relatively small size, events such as the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the San Sebastian Jazz Festival have given it an international dimension. San Sebastián, along with Wrocław, Poland, was the Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hezbollah
Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016. Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance, Hezbollah established strong ties with Iran. The group was initially supported by 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) instructors, who helped unify various Lebanese Shia factions under Hezbollah's leadership. Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto outlined its key objectives, which include expelling Western influence from the region, destroying Israel, pledging allegiance to Iran's supreme leader, and establishing an Islamic government influenced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemadrid
Telemadrid is a public television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). It began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. History First years Telemadrid was created when Joaquín Leguina (PSOE) was the regional president. During its first years, Telemadrid occupied the buildings of the EFE, Agencia EFE, where it suffered an attack from the domestic terrorist group GRAPO on 29 May 1993. There were no casualties and the event was covered live on Telemadrid. On 11 March 1997, Telemadrid celebrated the opening of its current location, in the Ciudad de la Imagen, in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Community of Madrid, Madrid. The building, which was called "special interest" on World Architecture Day in October 1997, holds all of the production centers for the radio-television entity. The digital era The year 2001 marked a turning point in the history of the ''Ente Público Empresarial''. Telemadrid became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Rosa Quintana
Ana Rosa Quintana Hortal (born 12 January 1956) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter. Having originally started out in radio, she rose to fame on Antena 3's daytime chat show ''Sabor a ti''. She later jumped ship to Telecinco to host El programa de Ana Rosa, which frequently led the ratings from 2005 until it was axed in 2023. In 2005, Quintana interviewed Ramona Maneiro, who admitted on ''Sabor a ti'' ( es) to having assisted Ramón Sampedro in taking his own life. She left Antena 3 that year for Telecinco, where she presented her most famous show, '' El programa de Ana Rosa'', until a schedule update in 2023 saw her move to the afternoon slot with the show '' TardeAR''. After her new show failed to beat Sonsoles Ónega's show ''Y ahora, Sonsoles'' in the ratings, Telecinco revived ''El programa de Ana Rosa'' in 2025, which has been daily defeated by itcompetition. Biography Ana Rosa was born and grew up in Usera, Madrid. Her parents were José Antonio Quin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party ( ; known mostly by its acronym, PP ) is a Conservatism, conservative and Christian democracy, Christian democratic list of political parties in Spain, political party in Spain. The People's Party was a 1989 re-foundation of People's Alliance (Spain), People's Alliance (AP), a party led by former minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Manuel Fraga. It was founded in 1976 as alliance of post-Francoist proto-parties. The new party combined the conservative People's Alliance (Spain), AP with several small Christian democratic and Liberalism, liberal parties (the party calling this fusion of views "the Reformist Centre"). In 2002, Manuel Fraga received the honorary title of "Founding Chairman". The party's youth organisation is New Generations of the People's Party (Spain), New Generations of the People's Party of Spain (NNGG). The PP is a member of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), and in the European Parliament its 16 Member of the European Parliament, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Villarejo
José Manuel Villarejo Pérez (born 3 August 1951) is a Spanish businessman and a former officer in Spain's National Police Corps. He was arrested in 2017. He is accused of involvement in a network of corrupt politicians, businesspeople, police officers and media figures known as the “sewers of state”. His trial started in October 2021. He was sentenced to 19 years in jail in 2024. Biography Villarejo was born in 1951 in the Andalusian town of El Carpio, the son of a pharmacist and a midwife. He began his career in Francisco Franco’s military when conscription had been mandatory. After time in the army, he joined the Social Investigation Brigade of the Spanish National Police Corps in 1972, assigned to the provincial police station of San Sebastián until 1975, where he was part of the anti-terrorist group and took part in various actions against ETA. He was later assigned to the Citizen Security team of the Prefecture of Madrid, where he remained until 1983. On leave from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, Algeria to Algeria–Mauritania border, the northeast, Mali to Mali–Mauritania border, the east and southeast, and Senegal to Mauritania–Senegal border, the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country; roughly a third of the population is concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast. The country's name derives from Mauretania, the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic. Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania by the beginning of the third centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Guard (Spain)
The Civil Guard (; ) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain. As a national gendarmerie, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil police, policing under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior (Spain), Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence (Spain), Ministry of Defence. The role of the Ministry of Defence is limited except in times of war when the Ministry has exclusive authority. The corps is colloquially known as the ' (the meritorious or the reputables). In annual surveys, it generally ranks as the national institution most valued by Spaniards, closely followed by other law enforcement agencies and the Spanish Armed Forces, armed forces. It has both a regular national role and undertakes specific foreign peacekeeping missions and is part of the European Gendarmerie Force. As a national gendarmerie force, the Civil Guard was modelled on the French National Gendarmerie and has many similarities. As part of its daily d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonsoles Ónega
Sonsoles Ónega Salcedo (born 30 November 1977 in Madrid) is a Spanish journalist, TV presenter and writer. Biography The daughter of speechwriter Fernando Ónega and Marisol Salcedo, she received a journalism degree from the Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid. She is the sister of fellow journalist Cristina Ónega. She started her journalism career at CNN+ and joined ''Noticias Cuatro'' upon the launch of Cuatro in 2005. In 2008 she jumped ship to ''Informativos Telecinco'', where she was parliamentary correspondent at the Congreso de los Diputados The Congress of Deputies () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencie ... for ten years. In 2004, she started a literary career with her short story ''Calle Habana, esquina Obispo'', and followed it up with ''Donde Dios no estuvo'', based on the 2004 Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podemos (Spanish Political Party)
Podemos (, ) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left Political parties in Spain, political party in Spain. Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra. Podemos arose in the context of 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis, the economic crisis at the start of the 2010s and the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption. A fast growing movement, the party took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in Spain, 2014 European Parliament election, winning almost 8% of the vote and five seats out of 54, outperforming the polls. The party would go on to take part in the 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 Spanish general election, 2016 Spanish general elections, becoming the country's third largest political force, but underperforming against the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Ruiz Pérez
Javier Ruiz (born August 18, 1973) was the Chief Editor at Cadena SER La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is a Spanish radio network established in 1924, with a regular listenership of 4,139,000 reported in 2018. The acronym SER stands for Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Spanish Broadcasting Company). Cadena SE ..., and host of the business show " Hora 25 de los Negocios". He was fired in 2011 after Cuatro was purchased by Telecinco. He now works as a freelance journalist for VozPopuli and Telecinco. References Living people 1973 births {{Spain-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
