calidad dicen, pero ¿qué calidad?
Pero ¿qué calidad? ¿La de ser la plaza de segunda donde se lidia el toro más chico para festín de las figuras o feriantes de postín? Llegará el día en el que más de uno se arrepentirá.
FERIA TAURINA DE MURCIA 2011.
The Gibraltar Government plans to sell large quantities of cigarettes seized by local law enforcement agencies during anti-smuggling operations.
The Gibraltar Government plans to sell large quantities of cigarettes seized by local law enforcement agencies during anti-smuggling operations.
At present those cigarettes are destroyed but the Government has published a proposed legislative amendment that will enable it to auction the confiscated goods.
The auctions will only be open to persons who are in possession of a valid wholesale licence and the proceeds will be paid into the consolidated fund.
The change comes against the background of a crackdown on tobacco smuggling, which has surged in recent months on the back of high unemployment in the Campo de Gibraltar.
The Royal Gibraltar Police and HM Customs (Gibraltar) have both intensified their anti-smuggling efforts, as have law enforcement agencies in Spain.
They are targeting the border area, housing estates and areas of town where people gather to buy and conceal cigarettes before heading across to Spain.
The aim is to disrupt and deter those involved.
The amended law will enable the Government to create additional revenue for the public purse as a result of the crackdown. At least some of that revenue will likely be channelled back into law enforcement, the Chronicle understands. The proposed amendment to the Tobacco Act 1997 seeks “…to provide the Government with the power to dispose of cigarettes by way of an auction when these have come into its possession by virtue of these having been forfeited by court order or otherwise come into the possession of the police or customs,” the text of the amendment states.
Only cigarettes of merchantable quality will be sold at auction. If the cigarettes are not fit for sale, they will be destroyed.
The Bill for the proposed amendment was published last week and has yet to be presented and debated in Parliament.
Stolen jewels recovered in Spain
The scam, police say, involved a fake sheik, a small man hidden inside a desk, and $17.5 million in jewellery including a tiara that apparently belonged to Eva Peron of Argentina.
Spanish authorities said on Wednesday they have recovered 6 million euros in jewels stolen in the bizarre crime in the eastern city of Valencia.
As the "sheik" handed over stacks of euros to a jeweler by placing them in the drawers of desk at a business center, the small man hidden inside switched them with stacks in which only the first and last notes were real, police said.
Both parties went back to the jewellery shop where the gems were stored in order to complete the transaction. But when the jeweller tried to inspect the money again, the bogus sheik and another assistant accompanying him roughed her up, threatened to kill her, and fled with the loot.
The jewellery included a diamond tiara that apparently once belonged to Argentina's legendary late first lady, a police statement said.
Italian authorities last week announced the discovery of 6 million euros worth of the jewels in a hotel strong box in Milan, Italy. Wednesday's police statement said the jewels were back with Spanish authorities and gave details of how the 2009 con and robbery was pulled off.
CALASPARRA REDUCE LA FERIA DEL ARROZ.
faena de muleta, de miquel barceló
Qué maldita casualidad: ¡ya están otra vez la pintura, las artes, la cultura con los toros de por medio!
El pintor mallorquín Miguel Barceló (1957) se convirtió anoche en el artista español vivo más cotizado en subasta al adjudicarse su obra Faena de muleta (1990) por la cifra récord de 3,96 millones de libras (más de 4,4 millones de euros, 6,3 millones de dólares)
Faena de muleta, el ejemplo más importante de la serie de Barceló sobre el mundo de los toros, superó con creces del anterior récord del artista, marcado en febrero también en Christie's con la obra Tres equis (1,2 millones de libras).
El cuadro muestra el ruedo a vista de pájaro y es una pintura de vigoroso empaste en tonos rojos y amarillos que transmite una gran energía centrífuga en la representación ascendente del graderío de la plaza.
CONVIRTÁMONOS EN PUNTALES HUMANOS POR LORCA..
carteles finalistas para la aste nagusia 2011
Cada vez falta menos para que llegue el 20 de agosto. El pasado sábado se conocieron los carteles de toros de Bilbao y muy pronto sabremos cuál es el cartel anunciador de toda la Aste Nagusia 2011.
Estos son los finalistas, vota por tu favorito:
1. Zapia eta kalera
2. Marijaiak
3. Hasiera
4. Asómate conmigo
5. Txirenada
6. La luz de Aste Nagusia
ESPALÍU COBRA EL TABACO MÁS FUERTE DE LA TEMPORADA
CANGUELO DE JAVIER CONDE, TAMBIÉN, EN LOS DESPACHOS.
joaquín sabina: "del 15-m, excepto su odio a la tauromaquia, firmo todo"
De una entrevista a Joaquín Sabina publicada hoy en El País:
P. ¿Cómo vivió el 15-M?
R. Emocionado, siguiéndolo minuto a minuto por los medios. Aquel fin de semana fue glorioso. Excepto por su odio a la tauromaquia, firmo todo.