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...Behind this temple of haute cuisine is chef Rafael Cagali, whose great-grandfather was Italian and whose native São Paulo is home to one of the largest Italian communities outside Italy....
...There are excellent cheese experts at Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes Station....
...While such international pressure was expected, last week’s resignation of Supreme Court judge Rafael Solís, for years a close ally of the president, came out of the blue....
...(Indeed, Mr Reyes Villa himself has recently been put on an Interpol wanted list.) Still, not all exiles are so extreme....
...provide the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) with $300m to buy weapons, enough to alter Colombia’s military balance; and the Farc may have contributed $400,000 to the electoral campaign of Rafael...
...Until July, the US had co-ordinated its counternarcotics efforts out of a base in Ecuador but Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, refused to renew the lease following a raid last year by Colombian troops...
...This stands at 52 per cent – well ahead of his nearest opponent, Manfred Reyes Villa, with 21 per cent....
...attend Monday’s Unasur summit in Quito, as relations with Ecuador have been at straining point ever since the Colombian army raided a leftist guerrilla camp on Ecuadorean soil last year and killed Raul Reyes...
...But Rafael Vanegas, a Senguio doctor, fears prolonged use of herbs over modern medicine could lead to a decline in the population’s health....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, and Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, have sent troops to the Colombian border....
...In Ecuador, news of the incursion of Colombian troops across the border has sparked strong protest from neighouring President Rafael Correa. ”The (Colombian) president either was poorly informed or brazenly...
...The claim was based on information allegedly recovered from the laptops of Raúl Reyes, a slain Farc commander....
...Senior Farc commander Raúl Reyes was killed during Saturday’s raid....
...The government of President Rafael Correa has continued Quito’s traditional policy of neutrality in the decades-old Colombian civil strife....
...Computer evidence captured last weekend after the death of the Farc’s number two, Raúl Reyes, points to the Farc’s links with both countries (see Semana in Spanish )....
...Ecuador: disaster delayed It would come as a shock if Rafael Correa were not to mark his first month in office on Thursday by missing a $135m coupon payment to holders of Ecuador’s Global 30 bonds....
...The short-passing team that the Argentine coach has assembled is much more inclined to attack through the centre, with dead-ball specialist Pável Pardo and captain Rafael Márquez dictating the tempo....
...Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, the governor of the province of Barinas and the president's father, issued a decree on Monday expropriating a flour milling plant belonging to Polar, Venezuela's largest food company...
...Under Rafael Benitez, Liverpool have few problems in generating a head of steam, merely in directing it....
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