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INTRODUCES YOU TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP IN VALENCIA
JESÚS BARRACHINA
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
'Jesus Barrachina is a man for whom the word “affable” might have been invented; and it is probably this affability that has maintained him on the board of Valencia Football Club for so long while other more aggressive directors have fallen by the wayside during internecine in-fighting.' MORE
ARTURO VIROSQUE
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
Few people in the Valencian world of business have had as distinguished a career as Arturo Virosque, or are as active in as many area of Valencia’s social and cultural life.
It was no surprise therefore when in April of this year he was re-elected President of Valencia’s Chamber of Commerce, a post he has held now since May 1995.
His beginnings however were fairly humble and his profile is that of the archetypal self-made man whose working life began in the difficult years of post-war Spain, the war in question being what he refers to as the “Spanish Uncivil War”.MORE
EDUARDO BEUT
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
There are not many important people in Valencia who don’t know Eduardo Beut, and not many that he doesn’t know. If you want to know what will be in tomorrow’s newspaper, ask him yesterday.
But, for the man who has been the boss of the Inland Revenue in the Valencian Community, a Vice President of the CAM and Bancaja Savings Banks and is currently Secretary General of FECOVAL, the Valencian Federation of Construction Companies, the great passion in his life, family aside, is basketball.MORE
CARLOS BERTOMEU
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
Like Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Bertomeu is the boss, and was born to run, although in his case, born to run a highly successful airline rather than a rock band.
t’s doubtful whether Bruce Springsteen could have started an airline with six employees ten years ago and increased that number to the present one of almost 1,700, although I don’t suppose Carlos Bertomeu could keep a stadium full of rock fans enthralled for three hours either.MORE
RAFAEL DE LA CUADRA
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
Everybody’s talking about the construction industry at present, and whether it has hit its ceiling, reached its peak or shot its wad; so it’s nice once in a while to talk to somebody who actually knows what he’s talking about, somebody who knows and works in the industry and is in fact at present the General Secretary of FEVEC, the Valencian federation of construction companies.MORE
JAIME ALMENAR
TALKS TO BOB YAREHAM
Law is a passion in Jaime Almenar’s life, and it’s not surprising when you consider that his mother was a midwife. His father however is a lawyer and his elder brother and sister are judges. This is a family whose members haven’t spent much time behind bars! MORE
AND A HISTORICAL VIP
BLASCO IBÁÑEZ
DAVID "ARROZ RHEAD & JOSE "TARTANA" MARIN
Blasco Ibañez is, after Cervantes, the most translated Spanish writer of all time and 17 of his books have been made into films. He wrote more than twenty novels but, internationally, his best known works are “Blood and Sand” from 1908, which was later brought to the cinema in a Hollywood blockbuster starring Rudolf Valentino. Even more famous was “The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse” from 1916, for which he was awarded membership of the French Légion d’honneur. These two novels in particular brought him great riches. “Horsemen” spent twelve months at the top of the US best-sellers list in 1916 and 1917. To Blasco Ibanez’s great personal delight, it outsold even the Bible in the middle of the Great War. The novel has had four separate screen adaptations; the most famous was directed by Orson Welles.MORE
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