Word: guez
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...President, the likes of Peréz have seen their power checked while pragmatists like Vice President Carlos Lage, 56, who share Raúl's less dogmatic economic-policy vision, have ascended. Also rising are younger army generals and other Raulistas like Raúl's son-in-law Colonel Luis Alberto Rodríguez, who is being groomed to oversee the large business enterprises, like tourism, controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces...
When Spain's Socialists ousted the conservative Popular Party four years ago, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero took the surprise election victory as a mandate for fundamental change. He immediately pulled the country's troops out of Iraq, soon legalized gay marriage, and began to take on centuries of entrenched machismo. If his party's gathering this past weekend is any indication, Zapatero's 2008 political platform will be no less dramatic...
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed the Alliance of Civilizations in 2005 as an alternative to the "clash of civilizations" mind-set, which was first described by political scientist Samuel Huntington and has characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...
...pulling out of Iraq, it was criticized internationally for capitulating to terrorism. In light of the clear lack of progress and rising casualties over the last three years of the Iraq War, however, it’s clear that Spanish Prime Minister José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero’s decision was the right one. Spain entered the Iraq War in 2003. Then-Prime Minister José MarÃa Aznar was a staunch supporter of the war; however, his commitment to it went against the will of 90 percent of Spaniards . Due to the lack of domestic...
...behind the royal reprimand, much of the international media missed what may have set Chávez off in the first place. Chávez became visibly irritated at the summit when Spain's current Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - a socialist and Chávez ally - insisted that Latin America needs to attract more foreign capital if it's going to make a dent in its chronic, deepening poverty. Chávez blames "savage capitalism" for Latin America's gaping inequality and insists "only socialism" can fix it - hence his tirade against Aznar and other...