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...Lucía Méndez, a leading Spanish columnist, said Feijóo, who took over the PP last year, no longer had a clear strategy. “He came to Madrid with a plan to govern....
...Xiana Mendéz, Spain’s trade minister, told the FT last month she believed he would back the pact. “It’s a very balanced one,” she said. “We don’t support reopening negotiations.”...
...Every birthday my girlfriend, Fabiola Quiroz, gets an artwork. The work is in gold leaf, with a dark void-like rectangle at the centre in super-matte black....
...Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP leader, has accused the government of “fiscal populism” over its windfall taxes and questioned the impact of energy-saving measures on consumption and tourism....
...“National politics will be harder and more demanding for Feijóo than Galicia,” said Méndez....
...“He’s in a tough spot,” said Alberto Lardiés, author of La Democracia Borbónica. “No one wants to be the last king.”...
...The economic downturn has crimped his style but Alberto Ruíz-Gallardón, the mayor of Madrid and former regional governor, was once so fond of infrastructure projects that he became known as Ruíz-Socavón,...
...Blind Sunflowers By Alberto MéndezTranslated by Nick Caistor Arcadia Books £10.99 110 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 Madrid publisher Alberto Méndez only wrote one book in his life....
...Billed as Carlos Acosta with guest artists from the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, it is indeed that, and precious little else save three small and horrid dance scenas, miserably choreographed by Alberto Mendez...
...In the 1990s, president-dictator [Alberto] Fujimori pretty much destroyed all cultural institutions.”...
...“Power always wears you down,” says José Alberto Alderete, the leader of the Colorado party, who admits it “has had its good and bad moments”....
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