Spaniards pin their hopes on a ticket to better times

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http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00515/spain-jobless-GETTY_515272k.jpg This could have been the year when 70-year-old Joaquin Rodriguez didn't play the Christmas lottery. It would have been the first time he skipped the world-famous "El Gordo" gamble in 50 years, but stranger things have happened in Spain recently. The left-leaning prime minister turned his back on the unions to appease investors, for instance. And earlier this month, the government declared a state of emergency for the first time since General Franco and placed the fate of the country's air traffic in the hands of the Spanish military.

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