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...Víctor Sánchez was among a group of Venezuelans huddled under a tree in a patch of shade on the Mexican side on Tuesday, hungry and tired after waiting seven days for a chance to get into the US....
...She speaks to FT columnist and Working It regular Emma Jacobs about which aspects of upskilling are worth the time and investment, and also to Dan Bullock and Raul Sanchez, training and communications experts...
...It is — according to our guests this week, New York University’s Dan Bullock and Raúl Sánchez — possibly the key to sustainability and world peace. That’s . . . a big claim....
...According to our guests, New York University’s professor Raúl Sánchez and instructor Dan Bullock, effective communication is the key....
...‘How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere’, by Raul Sanchez and Dan Bullock This is an unusual and potentially very valuable addition to the often generic presentation and networking books that...
...But the suspension could also have the curious effect of simplifying his chances of forming a government. Mr Sánchez has pulled together a coalition of 175 of the 350 seats in the Spanish parliament....
...Raúl Herranz joined hundreds of other taxi drivers on a hot July night as they blocked Madrid’s central artery, the Paseo de la Castellana, with their cabs....
...The FT's Latin America editor John Paul Rathbone reports on what the appointment of a new president means for the small band of self-employed businesses in a country marked by economic stagnation and fading...
...“Cuba became a country of silent people this Saturday,” tweeted Yoani Sánchez, publisher of the independent news website, 14yMedio.com....
...His greatest personal confidante was Celia Sanchez, who had helped to organise his life from the earliest days of his campaign in the Sierra....
...Obama looks quiet and looking into the future,” said blogger Yoani Sanchez on Twitter....
...On Monday he will meet Cuban leader Raúl Castro and will hold a forum with Cuban entrepreneurs and a large delegation of American business leaders who are on the trip....
...As US-Cuban relations began to thaw following the agreement struck last year between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, the art world responded in the best way it knew how: it promptly opened a gallery in downtown...
...But their main alternative is a fledgling independent media — such as Havana Times, a bilingual website, and 14ymedio.com, set up by dissident journalist Yoani Sánchez — where coverage is lively, well reported...
...But public criticism has stopped short of questioning the political status quo, aside from a fledgling dissident press, such as the online newspaper 14ymedio.com, run by writer Yoani Sánchez....
...“All of Raúl’s economic reforms involved decentralisation, which is good, as Cuba needs that,” says Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a state-published cultural magazine....
...We have lost count,” wrote dissident journalist Yoani Sánchez in a column on her website, 14ymedio.com. “But their illustrious presence has brought little relief to Cuban daily life.”...
...Nonetheless, Havana’s decision to sink scant resources into Mariel’s modern container terminal – and to build new marinas and golf courses elsewhere – suggests Raul Castro, president, decided long ago to...
...When asked by the FT earlier this year what victory might mean for her, Yoani Sánchez, a leading Cuban dissident, gave a nuanced and long-term view....
...Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s best known dissident, still blogs and tweets. Yet the defiant tread a fine line....
...(Weirdly, according to Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, Cuban state media also broadcast the handshake on television.)...
...success,” said Carmelo Mesa-Lago, author of Cuba Under Raúl Castro: Assessing the Reforms....
...Raúl Castro, 81, made the announcement in a speech broadcast shortly after the National Assembly elected him to a second term as president. “This will be my last term,” he said....
...(Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s leading dissident and blogger, has dubbed the Venezuelan oil supply “Cuba’s Viagra”.)...
...The long-awaited measures, hinted at by President Raúl Castro more than a year ago, will be popular among ordinary Cubans who have complained bitterly for years about travel restrictions....
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