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...Almost all the team’s over-30s — notably Sergi Busquets, Gerard Piqué, Luis Suárez, Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal and Jordi Alba — appear post-prime. Few of them will command significant transfer fees....
...“When we confront the Maduro regime, first we must confront Cuba,” says Luis Almagro, head of the Organization of American States. “The Cuban regime is the worst kind of dictatorship.”...
...The Exterminating Angel is based on the film of the same name by Luis Buñuel....
...The building’s Spanish architect, Luis Vidal, described airports as “the cathedrals of the 21st century”....
...The budget for the project was the same when both Foster & Partners and Luis Vidal were lead architects. Their brief was to deliver another world-class terminal for Britain at Heathrow....
...It would turn the new £2.5m Terminal 2 building designed by Spanish architect Luis Vidal into a “civic centre and retail hub”, create a technology campus for scientific research, and plant some forests....
...At a press conference earlier this year, listening to architect Luis Vidal talk about his design for Heathrow’s new £2.5bn Terminal 2, I heard the word “destination” and my nerves began to jangle....
...Luis Vidal, Terminal 2’s architect, described airports as “the cathedrals of the 21st century”. I appreciate that he has to talk up his project, but, fortunately, it is untrue....
...“This report will not determine the viability of Conga,” said Manuel Pulgar Vidal, environmental minister....
...Juicier than the average Beaujolais, it’s good enough to be the Troisgros house wine. 12%, £7.95 The Wine Society Vidal Fleury 2010, Côtes du Rhône Rich nose....
...Gore Vidal called Ronald Reagan “a triumph of the embalmer’s art”. Someone said Mr Bush was “born with a silver foot in his mouth”. Mr Sarkozy must raise his game....
...This year’s programme includes appearances by Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda and Mexican writer and editor Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and will take place from January 29 to February 1. www.hayfestival.com/cartagena...
...Luis Guillermo Solís, a professor at the University of Costa Rica and a former foreign secretary, supported the view that the decision had not been taken for financial reasons....
...Luis Miquilena, a politician who was once Mr Chávez’s closest political ally, this week described “21st-century socialism” as no more than “ideological minestrone soup”....
...“The government has taken this decision guided by geopolitical criteria rather than by economic motives,” said José Luis Betancourt, head of Fedecamaras, the national business federation....
...Luis Vicente León, director of Datanálisis, a polling company, says the “missions” have allowed Mr Chávez to compensate for dissatisfaction with the government over its handling of issues such as unemployment...
...Luis Pacheco, a former planning director of PDVSA, said: “Why would Venezuela be buying crude oil from Russia?...
...“What’s not yet clear is whether this is a declaration of war or simply the next move in a game of poker,” said Luis Pacheco, a former head of planning at Pdvsa....
...Shopkeeper Luis Jiménez is visibly enthused at the prospect of getting up early Sunday to vote for a candidate who isn’t a tired Colombian politician running for office for the umpteenth time....
...Luis Carlos Restrepo, the government representative, and Antonio García, the top commander of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, are expected to start several days of preliminary negotiations on Thursday...
...Luis Carlos Restrepo, the government’s peace commissioner, and Antonio García, a top commander of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, issued a joint statement after five days of meetings at a hotel in...
...But Luis Vicente León, director of polling research company Datanalisis, says that the opposition will end up more demoralised than before as it will have lost the little influence it already had....
...He was scheduled to depart for Spain to meet Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Wednesday....
...Relations between Spain and the US have chilled under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, prime minister, who took Spanish peacekeeping troops out of Iraq immediately after he took office in April 2004....
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