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...sure sign that if he wins, he intends to dissolve and re-create Ecuador's legislature in his own populist image. Like Chavez, "Correa is converting his [organizational] weaknesses into virtues and, under the guise of democracy, he'll fashion a Congress favorable to his political project," says Ramiro Crespo, president of the Quito investment bank Analytica Securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Another Chavez On the Rise in Ecuador? | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through the lanes until they find themselves trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour [an error occurred while processing this directive] later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...people are not interested in this historical revisionism. Nobody wins in a war - especially a civil war. Many families can tell you stories of atrocities committed by both sides. But fortunately, Franco and the Civil War have no place in today's Spain - despite Zapatero's obsession. Javier Crespo Santander, Spain If the Spanish government insists on revisiting the history of Spain's Civil War and Franco's regime as it weighs changes to the Valley of the Fallen memorial, it should consider the actions of both sides. Crimes and atrocities were committed in Spain by both Franco's Nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing Inventions | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...limelight that physical activity also deserves? It's partly because being overweight is a more conspicuous problem. You can see it with your eyes, you can measure it on a scale. Fitness isn't so easy to size up. "Fitness is not a matter of being skinny," says Carlos Crespo, professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo in New York. "It's a matter of being healthy." Experts like Crespo talk about seven components of fitness, a list that varies a bit from study to study but typically goes something like this: body composition, cardio-respiratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Moving! | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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