Spain's Podemos distances itself from Greece

Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos distanced itself Tuesday from its ally Syriza, which governs Greece, after eurozone creditors forced Athens to accept a tough deal to fix its debts. Polling strongly ahead of a general election due around the end of the year, the Spanish protest party insisted Spain would not go the way of Greece if Podemos took power. "Spain is not Greece," said Podemos's head of economic policy, Nacho Alvarez -- echoing the line used by Spain's conservat