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...“Mexico has a big comparative advantage in farming but there are problems in [agricultural health agency] Senasica,” says Luis de la Calle, an economist who runs a consulting firm in Mexico City....
...Turning to the recipe for shrimp ceviche that she contributed in memory of her youngest brother, Luis Reinaldo Herrera Ruíz, she smiles....
...Analysts at Banco Mariva, a local bank, see a “change in style but not in substance” in the reshuffle, in which Luis Caputo, Mr Prat-Gay’s finance secretary, takes over as finance minister in recognition...
...Luis Caputo, the finance secretary who played a key role in Argentina’s triumphant return to the international capital markets earlier this year, will be promoted to minister....
...Half an hour by car from Mérida, the state capital, Chablé is aspiring to raise levels of luxury to a new high in Yucatán state, which has tended to play second fiddle to neighbouring Quintana Roo, with...
...In this he echoes his hero, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who, when asked how he wished to be remembered, allegedly replied: “As a good reader.”...
...pivotal moment, Rivas tells the stories of young men and women whose lives were changed forever by the symbolic act of violence: Arturo da Silva, a lightweight boxing champion; Hercules, an aspiring boxer; Luis...
...Here are the ornate sarcophagi of Vasco da Gama, discoverer of the sea-route to India, and Luís Vaz de Camões, who celebrated da Gama’s maritime feats in his epic poem, “The Lusiads”....
...If Goya is one of the presiding spirits, then the other is the Surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel....
...“There’s a real disincentive for people to grow foods that aren’t for export,” says Victor Quintana, a Chihuahua state congressman and spokesperson for the Peasants’ Democratic Front....
...Blank Gaze By Jose Luis PeixotoTranslated by Richard Zenith Bloomsbury £15.99 256 pages FT bookshop price: £12.79 This first novel from a young Portuguese author is as remarkable for its subtle language...
...BORGES edited by Daniel Martino Destino Ediciones €60, 1,663 pages Jorge Luis Borges’s works of fiction could be squeezed into a single volume, yet he remains one of the 20th century’s most revered writers...
...In the world of the living, Isabel has left behind Julio, a husband suffering from Alzheimer’s; Alberto, a son on the brink of bankruptcy (and Alberto’s brain-damaged son, Luis); younger son Pablo, a sensitive...
...Audiences can watch the 1949 cabaret drama Salon Mexico alongside Novaro’s Danzon, or revisit Luis Buonuel’s tale of hopelessness, The Young and the Damned (1950), before tackling a modern story of city...
...Earlier this year the municipal president, Luis Sanchez, launched an initiative aimed at making Neza’s policemen better citizens. One of its cornerstones is to stimulate reading among them....
...FICTION Compiled by Angel Gurria-Quintana Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury £17.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A new novel by the author of The English Patient is always worth the wait...
...A similar media phenomenon may have begun to occur in 2002 when Brazil’s first working-class president, Luis Inacio “Lula” Da Silva, was voted into office....
...Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva, Brazil’s president, courted his wife to the sound of “A Banda” (The band), the song that propelled Chico to national fame in 1966....
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