Graves, Breast Implants, Sex, Tattoos and Juana la Loca

My Newsvine Articles and Posts with Spain related content, June-September 2014

First mass grave of 14th-century plague victims found in Spain

Photo: An overview of the pit excavated in the Basilica of Sant Just i Pastor. / Irene Gibrat

The Basilica of Sant Just i Pastor, in the heart of Barcelona’s historic Gothic Quarter, has been a place of Christian worship since the fourth century. In recent years it has provided archeologists with rich bounty:

Woman carrying 1.7 kilos of cocaine in breast implants arrested at Madrid airport

Spanish police have arrested a woman with 1.7 kilos of cocaine concealed inside her breast implants. The Venezuelan citizen was taken to a hospital immediately, due to the health risks associated with the toxicity of the drugs. The 43 year-old had come to Madrid on a flight …

Spanish police ticket 3 couples having sex in van – for not wearing seat belts

The sex ended up costing them 100 euros a person which, believe it or not, was actually a bargain. Police on the Spanish island of Ibiza who stopped a van last week during a routine DUI checkpoint were surprised to discover, while talking to the driver, that there were three cou …

Juana La Loca Syndrome in Venezuela

Juana La Loca Syndrome: that's how one Venezuelan writer describes the rush of his fellow citizens to get tattooed with images of and tributes to Hugo Chavez. Writing in Spain's Estrella Digital, former Radio Caracas Television Internacional reporter Noe Pernia compares the …