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...Pope surely expected a different welcome when he made plans to visit Valencia this coming Saturday. Instead of a vibrant and festive city, when he arrives for the World Family Forum in the Mediterranean city he will find a town enveloped in mourning...
...Monday, barely past 1 p.m., Valencia's Line 1 subway train derailed right under the city's downtown, crashed against the inside walls, and slid outside the tracks for 100 meters before coming to a deadly halt. Inside, 41 people lay dead. According to the train's black box, the convoy entered the curve that leads to the Jesus station at 80 km/h, double the speed limit. The regional transportation minister, Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n said that "the machinist must have suffered some sort of unconsciousness or problem," adhering to the official line that only human factor was to blame...
...Although this may well be the case, many residents of Valencia think that more could have been done to prevent the tragedy. A lot more. As recently as October 2005 there was another derailment in the same line, but the safety system was not changed. "There are track sections that are ready to be replaced, but we haven't been able to do it because there is not enough material," says Diego Trigo, a machinist and member of the Sindicato Ferroviario (Railroad Trade Union) and member of Valencia Railways' Safety Committee. "Regarding upkeep and maintenance, there is definitely a considerable...
...reciprocal relations rendered precarious and unstable." Such workaday pronouncements in Rome may not draw much attention. But this week Benedict visits Spain, the European democracy that arguably best represents the relativist tyranny he so dreads. Having accepted an invitation to attend the church's World Meeting of Families in Valencia on July 8-9, Benedict will arrive in a once devoutly Catholic nation that both admirers and critics around the globe now refer to as "Zapatero's Spain." Since his March 2004 electoral victory, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has pushed through a series...
...Festival, which rotates lineups between Madrid and Barcelona, joins a crowded schedule just one week before the well-established Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB), where the likes of Scissor Sisters, Madness and Franz Ferdinand will keep the four-day (and night) party going on a beach near Valencia...