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...Paintings are like patients, Enrique Quintana, the head of restoration, explained to me: they need check-ups every few years, and must be X-rayed and inspected to determine their state of health....
...The new Felipe Ángeles facility opened in March at a cost estimated by former finance minister Carlos Urzúa of $5.7bn....
...Hard Like Waterby Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus £16.99/Grove Atlantic $27 At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, Gao Aijun, a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army, returns...
...Property prices in Quintana Roo, the Riviera Maya’s state, have also been climbing steadily....
...“Mexico needs more initiatives like this to start reactivating the industry since it employs nearly 5m people, or about 7.7 per cent of the workforce,” said Carlos González, director of Visit México, a private-sector...
...The Explosion Chronicles , by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Grove Press, RRP$26 In this absurdist satire of China’s rapid urbanisation, the ancient village of Explosion...
...Carlos Capistran, Mexico economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said: “In our view, challenges to the results are highly likely and there is a chance that the election is annulled, although that can...
...Rodrigo Quintana, 25, was hit by a rubber bullet fired by police in the headquarters of the liberal youth activist group, the Paraguayan opposition said....
...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...
...The Four Books, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 Banned in mainland China, Yan’s novel is set in a “re-education camp” in northern China between...
...The sport remains a source of great pride, as when Colombian cyclists Nairo Quintana and Rigoberto Urán came first and second in the Giro d’Italia last week....
...Carlo Rovelli Physicist and author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics In Steven Weinberg’s To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science and Frank Wilczek’s A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s...
...Carlos Quintana is Mexican and Genilson Melo is Brazilian....
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...names commonly associated with the international emergence of Latin America’s best-known authors are Carmen Balcells, the formidable literary agent known as “la Mama Grande” to her clients, and publisher Carlos...
...This was essential to the success of the generation of Latin American writers known as El Boom, which includes Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes....
...Happy Families By Carlos FuentesTranslated by Edith Grossman Bloomsbury £17.99; 332 pages FT Bookshop price: £14.39 This is a big year for Carlos Fuentes....
...Fiction Compiled by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Pregnant Widow, by Martin Amis, Jonathan Cape RRP£18.99 Hailed as a return to form, Amis’s 12th novel recaptures the melancholy humour of The Rachel Papers...
...the Colombian Nobel laureate, remains the most conspicuous figure to emerge from the Latin American fiction “boom” of the 1960s and 1970s that also brought international fame to authors such as Mexico’s Carlos...
...He relishes the poem’s economy of language, and cites American poet William Carlos Williams, for whom a poem was “a machine of words”....
...Writing in the same newspaper, the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes wondered what the best name for this new continent of the Spanish language would be....
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