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...Instead, the first years of Francisco Franco’s military dictatorship were marked by hunger, repression and international isolation....
...In Rafael Ruiz Balerdi’s abstract painting “Guernika” (1964) the Basque town is not Picasso’s vision of war but a pastoral garden....
...Granted, a film director such as Luis García Berlanga had to contend with Franco’s censors: even so, in Welcome Mr Marshall!(1953) he took some swipes at the regime....
...“I belong to no party,” says Rafael Alvarez, a post office worker for 30 years demonstrating outside the PP offices in Madrid....
...Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, 1930-61 47. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero 48. Wen Jiabao, Chinese PM 49. George H.W. Bush 50. Julius Caesar 51. Bertrand Russell 52....
...“I know [Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez] Zapatero talks about protecting workers’ rights,” says an economist from another European bank....
...Its return to democracy and prosperity after a civil war and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco is, after all, one of the great success stories of postwar Europe....
...He has been legal counsel for Banco Popular – a mid-sized bank – co-chairman of Altadis, a Franco-Spanish tobacco group, and since mid-2005, CEO and first deputy chairman of Inditex....
...Ghery, Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatrava and Norman Foster have all built wineries in Spain in recent years....
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