The whole world is amazed how fast we have fallen

Jose Antonio Suarez Marchena, Sevilla, Spain. www.mncom.eswww.mncom.es
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Hello, my name is Jose Antonio Suarez, a student of fourth year of corporate communication in Univesidad Internacional of La Rioja. After 20 years of experience in journalism and corporartive communication now I, like thousands of Spanish journalists, I'm unemployed. I want to tell everyone, how it affects to Spanish citizens, the crisis we are experiencing.

The whole world is amazed at how fast we have fallen and how badly things have been done, but the world can not get an idea of how things have gotten worse in the last year. And worst of all is that this seems to have bottomed out and if we keep falling at this rate next year would be a finierno live in Spain.


The people we ask, why is passed this to us. We have the feeling of living in a Hollywood movie continuously, with a feeling of unreality. Until yesterday we lived pretty well, and today we come to what looks like a hell. Nobody warned us this would happen, the state don,t predicted or studied this scenario, nor have any idea how to get out.

I have done nothing to increase the crisis, nor have speculated, and I have no mortgage, nor am I a corrupt politician or done shady dealings. Why punish us this way. My answer is that for rich countries must have other impoverish and keep them dependent, as the U.S. did in all South America and now they are freed from their chains and now we are tying.


Do not go into macroeconomic issues that no one understands very well how and why they occur. Just want to tell you what its happen day to day of the people around me.


To me the face of the crisis is Albert, the son of the owner of the largest construction in my area that until a year ago employed almost a thousand people. Alberto studied architecture hoping someday to work in the family business on their land: now lives in Berlin and works as an architect. And yet he can consider himself lucky.


We are afraid. Do not know how deep we fall, as will the crisis affect our lives. It took five years of crisis and most begin to be demoralized by the bad news continued, and the horrible future ofview. And many people can not pay their bills for the situation.

Where I live

I live in a village in southern Spain, Marchena, near Seville, 20,000. Since the beginning of the crisis, the economic engine that was the construction is stopped. They built little, although there are still houses under construction. Everyone did business in the heat of the housing boom and often many middle class people have multiple homes.

But now, the houses are like true love can not be bought or sold, so this source of business is gone. What remains here in my area is agriculture. In the last 20 years, everyone left the farm work. For the first time people from many countries came to work, and now people my age 40 years and born in my town, who have computer engineering careers is returning to work in the field. Currently there are no something else. So many people prepared and educated is thinking about leave Spain.

I have friends who bought two or three houses, as many Spanish, but now at risk of defaulting on their mortgages. So the big hole in the Spanish banking comes from unpaid hipetcas homes. So they have a huge bag of homes that are not sold. At these banks is to support Target intenacional of 100,000 million euros.

Many can not understand that it helps the banks only and do not believe in any way, mechanisms that impact on improving the situation for citizens. Or that no legislative changes are made to keep the markets speculate against us citizens and the state.