Hints and tips:
...“It’s an old saying: ‘The more water, the sweeter the fruit’,” said Vicente Andreu Pérez, a senior researcher on desertification at Spain’s National Research Council....
...“Everyone is hustling,” said Luis Vicente León of Datanálisis, a local pollster. “Some 70 per cent of people queueing at state stores simply resell their goods on the black market....
...Luis Vicente León of pollster Datanálisis, says 44 per cent of Venezuelans believe the US sanctions are “an excuse to prepare a coup d’état” and control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves....
...Yet in 2003, just before David Beckham’s first season with Madrid, Del Bosque was summarily sacked by club president Florentino Perez....
...“This isn’t a democracy, it’s an autocracy,” sighs Juanita Pérez, a retired teacher....
...“Any exit [to the economic crisis] would be too costly for Maduro as he does not have the political capital Chávez had,” says Luis Vicente León, Venezuela’s leading pollster....
...Despite the intense political campaigning from both sides, the election is by no means “a zero-hour vote”, says Luis Vicente León, head of respected local pollster Datanalisis....
...Its founding chairman, Vicente Pérez, also chairs the Philippines’ branch of the WWF. Miniloc, still modelled on coastal villages’ thatched nipa huts, has moved on in some respects....
...A similarly important battleground is the oil-rich state of Zulia, Venezuela’s most populous state, which is governed by another powerful opposition leader, Pablo Pérez....
...“This 114 per cent increase in public expenditure is a direct result of two things,” says Vicente Albornoz, of Cordes, a Quito-based thinktank....
...For a start, they say, Mr Calderón has to do what Vicente Fox, the outgoing president and a member of the PAN party, did not....
...Mexico’s top competition official has urged the government of Vicente Fox to push ahead with reforms to the country’s telecommunications market to allow companies to compete with Telmex, the privatised telephone...
...President Vicente Fox of the PAN made some inroads in his successful 2000 campaign. Even so, the PRI still won more votes in 2000 than both opposition parties combined....
...When Vicente Fox came to the Mexican presidency five years ago, he promised socio-economic change every bit as radical and as far-reaching as the political change that his election victory represented....
...may eventually have to eat humble pie and turn to Vicente Del Bosque, the man he sacked a year ago, to come back to the rescue....
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