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...Léon Bakst’s original designs are swapped for a projected backdrop of tree trunks with suitably leafy lighting....
...“Petro is a revolutionary who has left a lot of inconclusive revolutions,” said Juanita León, editor of politics website La Silla Vacía....
...During her long lifetime, her work was often attributed to men, the E-1027 villa to Badovici or even to arch Modernist Le Corbusier and, on other occasions, to a “Leon Gray”....
...“But now the troubles are over and people need to return,” says Róger Gurdián Vigil, the mayor of León....
...García Márquez fled to Mexico. I found my son hiding the diary of Che I had brought back from Havana. He said he didn’t want the police to take his mother away. He was only six.”...
...There they had a daughter Beatriz, who married Don Mario Santo Domingo, the patriarch who, alongside his son Don Julio Mario, cultivated the family fortune....
...Leon Posen is a leading character in Commonwealth, a legendary writer who hasn’t published anything for years....
...Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 Perez was killed along with his partner, Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon....
...“But he really is a nice guy, clever and kind, and takes great care of his mother, Doña Beatriz.”...
...The top estimate is for the kaleidoscopic “O Moderno” (2002) by Beatriz Milhazes of Brazil....
...Yet for five decades Botero was almost alone in the international limelight — rather as the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was the sole writer known outside the country....
...It was, declared Colombia’s finest writer, Gabriel García Márquez, a country consumed by a “biblical holocaust”....
...“The commercial side has been harder than I thought,” León admits....
...disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones . . . why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid . . . ” Nothing else you read this summer will come close to Gabriel García Márquez...
...Guillermo León Sáenz, better known by his alias, Alfonso Cano, was gunned down in the jungle just two hours from the city of Cali....
...Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, assured a congressional committee that there was a “strong likelihood” Mr Mubarak would step down before the day was out. Then he didn’t....
...I’m in León. ‘Let’s have dinner.’ We met and since I was going to write for him, we quizzed each other about our tastes. Who is his favourite filmmaker? Kurosawa....
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