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...instead I’ll relate a typical postcard moment that I think conveys a lot.It was late one evening after a long day of work as the sun was setting behind the mangrove. People were filtering in from town to spend the evening with the Rodríguez brothers, and yet Don Ruben was still finishing up hammering a board into the exit of one of the shrimp ponds.Another man, Don Amadeus, had just come in, and though I don’t imagine anyone but Guatemalans could tell him apart from the rest, he was definitely of indigenous...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset, | Title: Making an Honest Living | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...World Meeting of Families in Valencia on July 8-9, Benedict will arrive in a once devoutly Catholic nation that both admirers and critics around the globe now refer to as "Zapatero's Spain." Since his March 2004 electoral victory, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has pushed through a series of social policies - from gay marriage and adoption to easier divorce proceedings and increased stem-cell research - that have made him a lightning rod in the ongoing Western debate over family values. Disciple And for many participants in that debate, Benedict has become the anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy War Of Words | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...Disapproval). Can Spain stay the course? It seems almost churlish to ask. So much wealth has been created in the last two decades that Spaniards appear largely immune to the "declinism" that plagues France, Italy and Germany. The two main political parties, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's ruling Socialists and Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP), spit and scream over everything from Franco's legacy to gay rights; last week the PP broke off all relations with the government to protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Spain Sustain? | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...spread from mouth to mouth," explains Martínez. "One person would tell a friend or relative about the money he was earning, and that person would convince the next." Indeed, there is only one Afinsa agent in Dosbarrios, and everyone knows him. "Raúl Rodríguez is the brother of my husband's friend," says Rosario Suárez, 35. "At first I was skeptical, but he came to our house, and I talked to other people who had invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself as "one of the victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamps of Disapproval | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

SPAIN After the sweater's global debut at a Jan. 4 meeting with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a horrified Spanish columnist asked, "Is there no one who might lend Mr. Morales a dark suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Changing His Stripes | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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