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...about their generation," says Olly Wehring, executive editor of the London-based Just-Drinks report. "Cognacs and aged whiskeys are what their parents drank." David Longfield, an editor at Drinks International in London, agrees. Aged rum "has a hip, even naughty aspect that Cognac tends to lack." Matusalem (a Spanish variation of Methuselah), for instance, uses a recipe smuggled out of Cuba after the 1959 revolution. The company's sales in Spain, one of the hottest aged-rum markets, are expected to double this year, to 660,000 bottles...
...Shortly following the announcement in December of 2003, former Spanish Development Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos likened the project to those of the Suez Canal in the 19th century and the Panama Canal in the 20th century. But unlike those grand feats of engineering and technological prowess, the building of the Gibraltar Tunnel seems more like a symbolic endeavor that the world can do without...
...While economic disadvantage can be easily quantified, only a hint from the current relations of the Spanish and Moroccan governments can predict the toll on the social landscape. The two countries both claim the cities Ceuta and Melilla that lie in Northern Africa—a gripe that has caused tensions for three centuries. In fact, a year and a half before the announcement, Spanish marines and Moroccan soldiers were caught in a wrangle in the islet of Perejil, which each country claims...
...past few years have seen an improvement in Spanish-Moroccan relations; mainly because cooperation on economic development and immigration enforcement substituted the bitter territorial disputes. Immigration issues, however, pose a grave problem for both countries and can only be exacerbated by the planned tunnel. Illegal immigration woes from the English Channel tunnel—refugees jumping from bridges onto moving trains, Eurotunnel losing ?5 million per month as a result—do not bode well for the two countries that continuously experience waves of Moroccan refugees crossing the strait in search of a better life...
...Unresolved issues—some culturally based—between the Spanish and Moroccan governments will not be solved with physical structures and tangible parameters. More extensive and comprehensive modes of communication are necessary before building a tunnel...