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...Down to the forests of Fuentes del Narcea in the wild interior — among the largest areas of first-growth deciduous woodland in the whole of Europe....
...Francisco Paez, head of structured products research at MetLife, said the products were particularly popular with insurers who were in search of “safe, predictable cash flows”....
...Francisco Franco died more than four decades ago but the censorship imposed by the Spanish dictator lives on in dozens of works by writers such as Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, James Baldwin and Ian Fleming...
...“Piedmont is the Burgundy of Italy,” says Greg St Clair, Italian wine buyer for K&L Wine Merchants in San Francisco and Los Angeles....
...“People now realise that Correa acts like a tinpot dictator,” says Andrés Páez, the opposition congressman who Mr Correa challenged after they clashed over a public defence contract....
...For many years, children and adolescents growing up in the Francisco I. Madero neighbourhood of Ciudad Juárez had little to do but to roam the many dusty and often dangerous streets....
...In 2003, US police raided the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, a San Francisco business that was illegally producing steroids....
...The most disturbing and moving works are a group of canvases by Francisco de Zurbarán, and I wanted to reflect on the contrast between Zurbarán and his contemporary Velázquez....
...“Sometimes you might find a good painting lacking beauty and delicacy,” wrote Inquisition art censor Francisco Pacheco....
...As Stanford sat in a DEA conference room, impeccably dressed and polite, Tinsley told him that he’d been tracking the money of the legendary Mexican drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who’d apparently stashed...
...“Property prices are falling, and some of the new owners are trapped in negative equity,” says Manuel Fuentes, mayor of Seseña....
...Francisco Mancebo, fourth last year and considered a potential Tour winner, was on the UCI’s list along with Joseba Beloki, who came second to Lance Armstrong in 2002....
...Corsano Leopizzi, Rome Noel Danquah, London Salem Darious, Exeter Joy Desai, Mumbai Terry Dickenson, Wheelton Paul Duncan, Newcastle upon Tyne Alex Ezazi, Los Angeles Ricardo Franco Jos Carlos Lopez Fuentes...
...By rooting its major figures in the Spanish tradition which includes good regional painters such as Golden Age portraitists Jose de Ribera and Francisco de Zurbaran, Murillo, Luis Melendez, Picasso’s friend...
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