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...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
...It was Ibarra’s group that devised plans for an annual “Victims of Communism Day” in Florida that DeSantis declared on the eve of November’s midterm elections. It looked to critics like a hollow ploy....
...It was filled with photos and artefacts, including pictures of him with the Obamas, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez....
...On the stump, DeSantis sometimes reads like Eve Harrington to Trump’s Margo Channing, an alluring understudy lacking the crackling presence of a star....
...On the eve of the financial crisis, when he was just 26, Kushner helped his family sign a $1.8bn deal for 666 Fifth Avenue — then the most expensive New York office purchase in history....
...I knew Fidel Castro, Gandhi, all the great ones of the world, wealth, work, happiness, love, everything, recognition too. I do not regret anything.”...
...Cuba after the Castros: escaping a long shadow . . . or in fellow socialist Nicaragua either . . . Daniel Ortega’s last stand?...
...Still, it will be the first time since dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country on New Year’s Eve 1958 and Fidel Castro took power the following day that a Castro has not headed the country....
...Xiaosong-pedia , which covered topics from Star Wars to Ming Dynasty concubines to CIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, received more than 900m views over its two-and-a-half-year run....
...Three questions José Luis Castro, president of Vital Strategies, which works with governments on public health in lower and middle-income countries to tackle non-communicable diseases....
...Noriega went underground but surfaced in the Vatican embassy in Panama City on Christmas Eve....
...Last year, a tax evasion scandal even prompted the resignation of the Guatemalan president on the eve of an election....
...But while friendly governments in Brazil and Bolivia are wrestling with corruption-related scandals, and Venezuela’s ally Raúl Castro is due to shake hands with US President Barack Obama in Havana this month...
...A few years ago he went to Cuba to interview Raúl Castro, and also visited Venezuela several times, where he struck up a friendship with the late Hugo Chávez....
...The broader metro region is among the top five performers of 100 urban areas since the eve of the Great Recession, according to the Brookings Institution....
...In a country famous for its political billboards, Cuba this week prepared to welcome Latin American heads of state to Havana for a regional summit with a new poster showing Cuban President Raúl Castro with...
...There was a song that we would take the country the Castro way, based on the banana boat song Belafonte used to sing....
...On the eve of the federal government shutdown at the end of September they handed over another 296,500 tons worth $136.9m....
...He countered in an interview in newspaper O Globo that radical greens wanted Brazilians “to live in the trees, eating coconuts, like Adam and Eve”....
...“Nothing is better for a mother or a father of a family than to be able to say on Christmas Eve that in spite of its challenges, this year was good and the next will be even better,” the president told the...
...During the sacrosanct big family meal on Christmas eve, the streets of Little Havana, Coral Gables and other quintessentially Cuban neighbourhoods evoke the years before Fidel Castro’s 1959 Revolution....
...Raúl Castro lacks Fidel’s vision and drive, but calls a spade a spade, and is known to care for his own....
...A receipt among his papers shows he had financed Castro’s rebels to the tune of $25,000....
...“We welcome this overture,” Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, said on Friday in a reference to remarks by Mr Castro....
...Kennedy, Khruschev and Castro were rational men, McNamara argued, but it was only through luck that they avoided destroying the planet....
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