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...regime of dictator Francisco Franco....
...Instead, the first years of Francisco Franco’s military dictatorship were marked by hunger, repression and international isolation....
...Another lovely port is Porto Rafael, a small village just 30km away from Porto Cervo, and also easily accessed by boat. The busy piazza is full of cafés and it’s the perfect place for an aperitivo....
...Behind this temple of haute cuisine is chef Rafael Cagali, whose great-grandfather was Italian and whose native São Paulo is home to one of the largest Italian communities outside Italy....
...“We are moving from a model of ‘the more tourists, the better’ to one of higher expenditures, more nights and premium tourists,” says Reyes Maroto, Spain’s tourism minister....
...“It is very difficult to know what is solvent, what is healthy and what is going to be viable,” says Rafael Doménech, head of economic analysis at BBVA, the bank....
...There are excellent cheese experts at Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes Station....
...Franco-Dutch truce France and the Netherlands are enjoying a rare detente....
...“If Franco was still alive, he would kill you.”...
...Franco-American play-offs are a key Vuitton theme: prominent Americans here are French-inspired, born in the 1920s, growing up when Paris still held sway in the arts....
...While such international pressure was expected, last week’s resignation of Supreme Court judge Rafael Solís, for years a close ally of the president, came out of the blue....
...When Rafael Moneo invites me into his office in an elegant, 1930s Madrid house, I glimpse a slightly faded but very distinctive drawing above a plan chest....
...independence, and that Francisco Franco had numerous supporters in Catalonia....
...Her mentor was an American artist, Ann O’Hanlon, who ran the art department at the Dominican College of San Rafael in California where Adnan was teaching the philosophy of art....
...Earlier attempts to forge a nationalist political platform failed partly because they were based on Franco-era nostalgia, says Rafael Ripoll, the leader of the far-right España 2000 movement, and a local...
...In Rafael Ruiz Balerdi’s abstract painting “Guernika” (1964) the Basque town is not Picasso’s vision of war but a pastoral garden....
...(In Spain, Franco’s regime actually championed gestural painting because its nebulousness deprived it of dissident clout.)...
...The son of a Falangist leader, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio barely mentions the civil war in his novel El Jarama (1955) yet there is a suggestiveness in the way it keeps reminding us that, in Treglown’s words...
...A new group of people has entered the market,” says Rafael Jiménez del Río, who owns Joyería Murguía, a century-old jeweller that stocks Rolex....
...Originally from Madrid, the architect grew up in a politicised family of intellectuals; he counts sipping champagne while watching General Franco’s funeral on their black-and-white television as one of his...
...New properties followed in the 1930s but the chain’s era of greatest expansion came in the 1960s under the aegis of Franco’s tourist minister Manuel Fraga, who conceived the Paradores de Turismo as a mid...
...The French government raised a potential sale of Dassault’s Rafael fighter to Qatar, as the emirate seeks to replace its fleet of Mirage fighters....
...“Fernando Lugo is still president of Paraguay,” said Evo Morales of Bolivia, while Rafael Correa, of Ecuador, said he hoped Unasur would take “really substantial and radical” steps to prevent such events...
...“I belong to no party,” says Rafael Alvarez, a post office worker for 30 years demonstrating outside the PP offices in Madrid....
...In 1930 it was the venue for the signing of the Pact of San Sebastián, founding document of the second republic; six years later it had changed sides, becoming the civil war HQ of Franco’s forces in the...
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