Choices to be taken (Week 12)

Greetings, and welcome to another Week of analysis in Weekend Update!

This week we have Patricia and Álvaro on the side. Miss P is doing a trip around Europe (lucky girl) and Álvaro is still terribly busy with his degree... So, we stand alone, basically.

Pity, because this week in France, the fighting is on the streets of Paris. Shame on De Villepin's ruling, as he's contested in his very own cabinet... This however could turn into his excuse to sack his Interior Minister and rival within the party, Nicolas Sarloky, and finding himself a new right hand.

In Washington, there's choices to be made, of a very different nature. James Alito has been appointed candidate to the Supreme Court and the Beltway is now rocked. They dismissed a moderate judge like Harriet Miers, only to get a hard-liner, very much of the liking of the Republican "falcons". Will this choice stand firm?

Here in Spain, things turn from bad to worse. Once we had the northern basq Country that wanted to change its self-government into a "free-bounding" relationship. Project was not passed in the parliament, but, as a friend would say, it made people think: if you don't vote, you get idiots in charge.

Seems like those same idiots that turned down the basq project have a different idea of the new Catalonian one. It's not based on "free-bounding", it's based on the conquest of a country by one of their regions. Nationalists along with the socialist misguided majority have planned it and it has come all the way to the Spanish Cortes. Congratulations, Zapatero. The only choice of the Center-right Partido Popular was, logically, to turn to the judges... the project is darned illegal, man!

Turning to Italy, it seems that a diplomatic hot-spot has appeared between the country and Iran, after the declarations of the Irani president, incitating to burn down Israel (for a change). Italy stood at the side of Sharon, and now it's time for them to suffer Iran's wrath, those last say. Of course, the Left asks for "peace", but how long can you turn your back to the problem, Prodi?

Finally in Argentina, an ALCA summit is taking part. Even if the attention is centered in the current strife Bush vs. Chavez, the host, Mr. Kischner is torn apart by the loyalties he owns to both of them. Will he pick ALCA or Castro and Chavez's cheap, tropical communism?

These are the choices this week. I'm Miguel Vinuesa and these is news to me!