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...Alfredo Navas, a botanist, is showing me guamacho, a sort of primordial cactus that wants to be a tree. We’re knee-deep in water when he pauses....
...“The adjustment we’re going to have to make is going to be brutal.”...
...What we’re reading The beginning of the end for Ortega?...
...Juan José is digging a latrine on the small, 8m by 25m plot the government of Daniel Ortega has given him to build a house....
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...But it’s pulpo á feira that is hard-wired in the Galician culture. Our host, José Alberto, says: “Galicians are very proud of their food, especially this. People travel from far to try it.”...
...Tobias Buck is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief Photographs: Alfredo Cáliz / Panos Pictures...
...The football manager José Mourinho, when he was still a winner, mocked Wenger as “a specialist in failure”. That’s a very modern misunderstanding....
...The vines are old and look tortured; they’re the sparse remnants of a once intensely planted zone. Dead, leafless vineyards are not uncommon here....
...“Now they’re stealing rice and tins of tuna....
...In Peru, national media do not have to carry presidential messages. In Paraguay, after Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship, they are banned....
...Even so, Botín’s re-election to the board was opposed by nearly a quarter of investors in protest at the bank’s lack of independent directors....
...“If you tell us what you’re planning, even your own supporters won’t vote for you,” he said to Mr Rajoy....
...ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner with photographs by Iwan Baan, Lars Müller Publishers, RRP£38 Torre David in Caracas...
...“We’re already in positive growth, we have stabilised the debt market risks, we’re out of danger and we’re close to the final issue, which is to create jobs....
...That’s why, last spring, the club hired the ultimate winning coach: José Mourinho....
...“You’re an out, a small out, and you’re new. We don’t want to hear from you,” Mr Sarkozy said....
...We’re off then!”...
...In this, Mr Zapatero seems to be following the dictum of José Ortega y Gasset, the philosopher and writer, that “Spain is the problem, Europe the solution”....
...He argues that the party retains the dictatorial model of Alfredo Stroessner, who was deposed in 1989, and that the church is one of the only remaining credible institutions in Paraguay....
...Both Argentina’s president, Néstor Kirchner, and Spain’s José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – who met to discuss the issue at a summit meeting in Montevideo at the weekend – are in favour, arguing that the money...
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