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...Antonio García, the ELN commander, rationalises kidnapping as a means of financing the group, but concedes that the abduction of Luis Manuel Díaz was a “mistake”....
...Madrid is the autonomous community with the lowest tax rates in Spain, and new tax residents will benefit from a cut in personal income tax (IRPF), announced by the president of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz...
...Its leader Eliécer Herlinto Chamorro, who uses the alias Antonio García, conceded in a message on Telegram that the kidnapping of football hero Díaz’s father was a “mistake” because of the star’s popularity...
...“I do not agree at all with the amnesty,” said Antonio Garamendi, head of the CEOE, Spain’s main business lobby, last week....
...La Scala is the world’s most famous historic opera house, of course, a riot of red velvet and gilt in a rather restrained grey-stone case, designed by Pietro Marliani, Pietro Nosetti, and Antonio and Giuseppe...
...José Antonio Alvarez, chief executive of Santander, said the outstanding issues were mostly “technical” but could have an impact on banks’ loan loss provisions and use of capital....
...Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, said last month that what the banks were offering was “not enough”....
...The idea was to set up a tablao with a more modern feel, says co-founder Ernesto Díaz, a Mexican who has lived in Spain for 30 years....
...“The PP’s crisis has important implications for the future of the Spanish right,” said Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence....
...In the mid-1990s, Cordoban flash dancer Joaquín Cortés took to wearing a long black Armani-designed skirt....
...If you’re looking to shop, a discreet cut-through takes you from the back of the hotel straight into the neighbouring department store, El Corte Inglés....
...We’re already screwed and now it will only get worse,” said Antonio Fernández as he waited at a petrol station in the Playa area of Havana, the capital, to fill up his battered Chevrolet, which doubles as...
...Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the leader of Madrid’s regional government, contested that Spain had given the Americas the Spanish language, Catholicism, “and as a result, civilisation and freedom”....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Antonio Garamendi, head of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations, or CEOE, said botched reforms could hurt companies’ competitiveness....
...Neither Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez nor Antonio Mercero are academics, but in fact television scriptwriters in their 40s and 50s who have worked on Spanish shows such as On Duty Pharmacy, Central Hospital...
...The dispute, which pitted Casado against the party’s rising star, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, head of Madrid’s regional government, has underscored the weakness of the PP as it struggles to hold on to voters attracted...
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...Díaz-Canel visited the town and later alleged that protesters had been manipulated by US-led social media campaigns....
...President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the town and later said that protesters had been manipulated by American-led social media campaigns. Read more here...
...Earlier this week António Costa, his Portuguese counterpart, pledged a package of reforms ranging from measures to tackle youth unemployment to increased child tax benefits as well as investments in health...
...About 30 per cent of Barcelona’s bars and restaurants have closed for good, Pallarols said, while that number is 20 per cent in Madrid, according to Antonio Galán Alcázar, president of Madrid’s AMER restaurant...
...Antonio Zapatero, Díaz Ayuso’s point man on coronavirus strategy, puts the risk of fatal clots at just 0.17 per 100,000 jabs....
...Pleas to open up In the days after the protests, Díaz-Canel softened his tone....
...In turn, Díaz Ayuso accused the prime minister of “lying constantly” and having a “terrible obsession” with Madrid....
...Luis Antonio Espino, a communication consultant, tweeted: “Amlo may not have had his Waterloo, but the opposition had its Dunquerque” — a reference to a turning point in the second world war....
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