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...My eyes were opened to the longevity of the finest Tempranillo-based wines 11 years ago at a tasting organised by Spanish wine lovers Luis Gutiérrez and Jesús Barquín....
...“If true, it would undoubtedly be extremely serious, deplorable behaviour,” Mr Torres Vila said of the reported spying....
...The court is investigating whether BBVA hired a company to spy on a would-be buyer and members of the government of the former Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero more than a decade ago...
...The investigation reportedly included members of former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s socialist government, which was believed to support the takeover bid....
...Several days later, executive chairman Carlos Torres Vila wrote a letter to employees about the state of the investigation....
...The earnings report comes as the bank investigates reports that it had hired a company to spy on a would-be buyer and members of the government of former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
...break with Spain, but Carles Puigdemont, the president of the Catalan regional government, has been under growing pressure from his more moderate supporters to delay a declaration of independence Santi Vila...
...Vila Extramuros (villaextramuros.com) has doubles from €130. Ecork Hotel (ecorkhotel.com) has doubles from €120....
...(Their original port lodges still dominate views of Vila Nova de Gaia, across the Douro.)...
...Luis Ramos, Bombardier’s director of communications for South America, says politicians can fund monorail projects knowing they are likely to be completed before they come up for re-election....
...The hipper, greener – or just richer – enclaves have developed in São Paulo, in Jardins or Vila Madalena, but they have developed to allow people to escape the centre, which has long been in decline....
...Most of the more desirable areas – Higienópolis (old money), Paulista-Republica (edgier), Pinheiros-Vila Madalena (hipster), Vila Nova Conceicão (expensive, near the city’s biggest park) – lie around this...
...While underground, Mr Lobos received a signed T-shirt from Spanish star David Vila, whose father and grandfather were miners....
...Brigadeiro Luis Antonio 4700, +55 11 3055 4710) is the city’s landmark hotel....
...“If a Brazilian player can have a good standard of living here, he’ll come back,” says Luis Rosenberg....
...A closer look from the Dom Luís bridge and some of the differences emerge....
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, and opposition leader Mariano Rajoy went head-to-head on Monday night in a televised electoral debate in which the economy took centre stage....
...Blank Gaze By Jose Luis PeixotoTranslated by Richard Zenith Bloomsbury £15.99 256 pages FT bookshop price: £12.79 This first novel from a young Portuguese author is as remarkable for its subtle language...
...Vila-Matas seems determined to make his readers go intertextually insane....
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