The Christmas lotto draw sends Spaniards into a frenzy. In Summer many buy tickets, or decimos, on vacation — you’d never know where the luck could land. Some spend hundreds of Euros. The December 22nd draw is surreal: school children with shrill voices sing out numbers and cash amounts like fingernails drawn across a chalkboard.
The festive period gone by, however, will be remembered for a different set of numbers. Numbers without jackpots or winners — just losers. Lost mothers and daughters, lost sisters and friends. Lost futures.
· In December, 11 women were fatal victims of male violence in Spain.