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...Belfrage was raised in Italy by a Brazilian mother, who grew up in Cuba and Mexico, and a British-American father, and her cooking draws from the flavours of her family history....
...One of the main reasons is the rise of populist leaders with an authoritarian bent, such as El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele....
...If you’re looking to shop, a discreet cut-through takes you from the back of the hotel straight into the neighbouring department store, El Corte Inglés....
...“My main adviser will be Rafael Correa,” she told Telesur, a leftwing news channel funded by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua....
...The coup de grâce: a fly-by-night rental office in the basement of a Nice hotel that flew by night, stranding me and my 88-year-old father at 11pm....
...On Tuesday, the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy, announced that six congressional representatives would visit Taiwan on Wednesday and Thursday....
...“This is the cornerstone of Cuba’s oil logistics system,” Piñón said....
...But while you’ll find plenty of high-rises in places like Lloret de Mar, the bays to the north remain unspoilt....
...Dining El Palacio de los Jugos (“The Palace of Juices”) is a sprawling, sweaty, authentic Miami-Cuban experience, opened in 1977, and now with branches across the city....
...Uruguay, for example, had a large influx from the Canary Islands along its coast, as did both Venezuela and Cuba....
...“My approach to diversity has been an organic one,” says Luis De Jesus, owner of the eponymous gallery downtown....
...Two dissident rappers living on the island, El Funky and Maykel Osorbo, members of the San Isidro artistic collective, also feature....
...This was but an amuse-bouche for the banquet that awaited me at the festival in Cuba back in February, which was largely dedicated to the launch of the Romeo y Julieta Línea de Oro, a range of three new...
...When flights resume, Cubana flies several times a week from Havana to Baracoa and daily from Havana to Santiago de Cuba. Hotel El Castillo has doubles from $80....
...He first oversaw the reconstruction of the Captain General’s office on the stately Plaza de Armas, the El Morro castle built to guard the port entrance from British corsairs and latterly, among many other...
...Born in Cuba in 1915 to a father who founded the newspaper El Mundo and a mother who was a reporter, Herrera took drawing lessons as a child before travelling to Paris, where she studied art, and visited...
...The African hollow timbre of the beats on “Contra La Pared” coexists with arpeggiated synthesisers; tropical birds chirp through “El Bosque”....
...Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, a leader of the militant youth group La Cámpora, has become interior minister, while Ms Fernández’s longtime ally Carlos Zannini, known as “El Chino” because of his admiration for...
...Mr Sánchez de Lozada was forced to resign in 2003 following mass protests that led to scores being killed in El Alto, a city that is populated primarily by indigenous rural migrants....
...exhibition at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in Havana....
...(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 president doesn’t even touch the local delicacy, getting lost instead in a story about how he angered Cuba’s Fidel Castro soon after winning his first election....
...US-based think-tank Freedom House says that in Latin America, only Cuba has a worse record....
...If proof be needed, head to El Alto....
...Fidel Castro asked her to create a company that would be the envy of the world, and she did — the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Like el comandante, she built a personal mythology with it....
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