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...An economic crisis that has already lasted two years is expected to cut the generous sums that Spaniards spend on gifts for the night of January 5, when children leave their shoes out for Los Reyes Magos...
...Colombian authorities have dealt a blow to the country’s main leftwing rebel group with the killing of its military commander, Victor Julio Suárez Rojas, in an air bombardment....
...Victor Mallet is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief Tours, for up to 10 people at a time, are free and last 50 minutes, including 10 minutes on the scaffolding....
...Madrid By Victor Mallet For the child of a traditional Spanish family, a letter to Santa Claus will go unanswered and Christmas day will pass without the hoped-for gifts. Forget December 25....
...The stocky 36-year-old Ecuadorean, who lives and works in the northern Madrid suburb of San Sebastián de los Reyes, holds down a job as a gardener. His wife is a cleaner....
...But with the prospects of a lasting peace in Colombia at their strongest in decades, Mr Uribe has emerged as a clear victor....
...The Bluebirds are fortunately spared, Xiomara Reyes and Herman Cornejo in their established pas de deux and solos justly receiving the greatest applause of the evening....
...Hispanics like Mr Reyes made up 18 per cent of Bethlehem's 71,000 residents in 2000....
...Yet Mr Reyes maintains the move north has been worthwhile. “Even with a good job, I wouldn’t have been able to afford a house [in Mexico] on $70 a week,” Mr Reyes says....
...After all, Victor Fernandez, the Porto coach, described them as the best headers of a ball in Europe....
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