Thank you, atcstudent! A combination of my schoolboy Spanish and Google Translate helped me to make sense of the situation. Talk about scapegoating - there are times* when I thing politicians ought to be the object of lots of physical harm.
I think the fact that I couldn't find anything as detailed as those links in English speakes volumes as to what our media thinks is "interesting" ...
*(every day with a "d" in it)