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...He pays particular attention to the 1923-1930 rule of strongman General Miguel Primo de Rivera — “the least researched period of modern Spain”....
...“Water scarcity and the [climate] situation that has crystallised over the last couple of years are pushing the deployment of these technologies,” says José Díaz-Caneja, chief executive of Spanish conglomerate...
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...The Valley of the Fallen is officially a memorial to the war dead on both sides and contains the remains of 33,000 people — but the only marked graves are those of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera...
...But Albert Rivera, the head of the opposition Ciudadanos party, said on Friday that Mr Sánchez should call swift elections. “We are entering a period of political instability in Spain,” Mr Rivera said....
...Among them are Cleveland’s Loretta Mester and John Williams of San Francisco, giving the committee a hawkish hue....
...The other is Ciudadanos, a centrist party headed by Albert Rivera, a youthful Catalan lawyer....
...The priest, who is also the abbot of the Valley’s Benedictine monastery, then starts his homily with a prayer for the soul of Francisco Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist...
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...This is How you Lose Her , by Junot Díaz, Faber, RRP£12.99 Díaz’s impressive collection of short stories charts the end of love from first doubts, through the dreamlike state of splitting up, to the regret...
...One 1929 cover, by José Almada, is of three girls on a balcony, calm, simple and elegant, in distinctive greys and greens – a look that The New Yorker has retained ever since....
...The directors, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, struggle to repeat the filmic sensation they created for their 2004 Paris version of Rameau’s Les Paladins....
...Gigantic murals became the cultural trademark of the first revolutionary years, most of them conceived by three artists: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco – known collectively...
...In the words of a report by Santiago López Díaz, banking analyst at Credit Suisse: “It might get worse before it gets better.”...
...“Many graduates do not speak good English and often can’t express themselves in a clear and structured manner,” says Prof Pérez Díaz....
...Jose Francisco Gil Diaz, the Mexican economist who served as finance secretary under President Vicente Fox, stepped down from the board of HSBC today for personal reasons....
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