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...Gonzalo de Aguilera, a Francoist press spokesman in the civil war, was a half-English, polo-playing reactionary who proclaimed, “It is damnable that women should vote....
...of civil war in an unnamed African country....
...The current standard-bearer, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, supports Cuba, Venezuela and, until February, Russia — but not Nato....
...In New Mexico, the revelation is María Izquierdo’s luscious table-top still-life “Calabazas con pan de muerto” (1947)....
...In 1980, the M-19 guerrilla movement stormed a diplomatic reception in Bogotá and kidnapped US envoy Diego Asencio, holding him and several other ambassadors hostage for two months before flying them to Cuba...
...The Russian scenario was centred around a conflict over Belarus — where current civil and political unrest has led to discussion of Russian military intervention....
...Founded in the 1940s to pursue social justice, it is comparable in the duration of its political spell only to Castroism in Cuba....
...During one trip to Havana, Stanfield stumbled upon a government-run bookshop in the city’s oldest square, Plaza de Armas....
...Finally, those who missed the New York Times’s excellent profile of the United Arab Emirates’ de facto leader, Mohammed bin Zayed, should catch up with it now....
...As it turned out, France’s General de Gaulle slammed the door. He would do so again when Labour’s Harold Wilson resubmitted the application. But the direction was fixed. Britain joined in 1973....
...They point to his contribution to the peace process in Colombia and the thawing of US-Cuba relations. Zanatta scoffs at this idea: “The Pope is the grieta,” he says....
...(Caracas Chronicles) ● Juan Guaidó, el delfín de Leopoldo López que tomó por sorpresa el mando de la oposición (El País) ● El Chapo trial: the kingpin’s mistress tells all (New York Times) ● Idas e...
...The economy has halved in five years, a contraction worse than those in the Great Depression or Spanish civil war. Rates of hyperinflation, meanwhile, are similar to those in Germany in 1923....
...After the insurrection to topple Somoza, the FSLN was plunged into civil war against the counter-revolutionary US-backed Contras for most of the 1980s....
...Daniel Ortega coordinates nine-man junta 1981—88 Civil war as US-backed counter-revolutionaries known as “Contras” battle FSLN 1984 Ortega elected president 1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow...
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...Cuba braced for life after Castro...
...The probe, which does not imply any guilt, will be led by three investigating magistrates after a complaint against BNP was filed this summer by three French civil society organisations, according to a spokesman...
...BNP Paribas has been accused of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with three civil society organisations lodging a complaint in the French courts on Thursday....
...In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium....
...The Spanish Civil War, published in 1961, was the first objective general study of the subject....
...“These are the kinds of problems that worry me a lot,” confessed Humberto de la Calle, the government’s chief peace negotiator....
...The hurricane was moving slowly north, and was expected to hit Cuba — striking near the US Guantánamo Bay naval base, the country’s second city, Santiago de Cuba, and a coffee-producing zone, later on Tuesday...
...Civil war later broke out in Mozambique as well....
...“This is a golden opportunity,” says Byron Yepes, a camp commander who, like all rebels, uses a nom de guerre....
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