Everyone in Sodeto, a small farming village in northeastern Spain, looks forward to the annual Spanish Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo (the fat one). “Going to Sodeto and selling lottery tickets is a success, we spend all our money buying them,” José Manuel Penella, the town’s mayor, told Euronews. And they are not short of money. Eleven years ago, when economic crisis hit Spain hard, this small farming village, where some families were struggling to make ends meet, picked the lucky number. On 22 December 2012, the tickets distributed among the 80 families in the village won the lottery’s…