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...In the 1980s, Cuba’s then leader Fidel Castro set up the industry to get around the US embargo....
...Eduardo Valdes, Argentina’s ambassador to the Vatican until 2015, agrees that the Pope’s thinking “has much more in common with Cristina [Fernández] than the neoliberals”....
...The collapse of Toys "R" Us should have helped its toy business. But Walmart, of course, is locked in a battle with Amazon....
...Presidential term limits will be limited to two five-year terms (instead of Fidel Castro’s three decades as president)....
...By 2017 Globo reached almost every corner of Brazil, with revenues topping R$14.8bn (then worth $4.5bn)....
...Mr Díaz-Canel will also be carefully watched by ageing hardliners such as Ramiro Valdes, 85, who was renamed vice-president this week....
...Potter growled out R&B sax, the band played the blues and Hussain’s vocals added Indian flavours to the timbres of rock and roll....
...A few hours after we met, he issued a statement to mark the death of Fidel Castro, whom he called “a giant among global leaders”....
...Fifteen years later, he is reviving the show, which follows the life story of Siomara Valdes, a 75-year-old chanteuse who performed at the Tropicana nightclub before the revolution and once taught Nat King...
...citizens to buy and sell their homes for the first time in decades, the latest attempt by President Raúl Castro to patch up a crumbling economy after decades of communist rule under his older brother Fidel...
...(One of the first newspapers Fidel Castro closed down was the humorous rag, Zig-Zag. In exile, its cartoonists went on to staff MAD Magazine)....
...The government has attracted fierce criticism for bringing in Cuban vice-president Ramiro Valdes, a close ally of Fidel Castro, to help solve its electricity woes, despite Cuba suffering serious electricity...
...Paulo, the government’s tax take has risen by R$31.4bn this year and spending on payroll by R$32.1bn....
...While Raúl, the temporary president, is the most active of the old guard, other prominent members include Ramiro Valdés, the communications minister, and Ricardo Alarcón, a veteran former foreign minister...
...Spending with the credit cards has grown exponentially since they were set up in 2001, rising from R$14.1m in 2004 to R$75.6m in 2007, of which R$58m took the form of withdrawals from cash machines....
...That means Brazilian corporates will raise R$10bn rather than the R$17bn that had been expected....
...“Fidel’s illness has simply accelerated the process.”...
...Mr Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro are focusing most of their vitriol on US ethanol that is made from maize, rather than Brazil’s sugar-based variety....
...) for industry and a new fund for popular housing of a further R$15bn....
...Robert Derbenti Francisco R....
...THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIDEL: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L....
...Dagoberto Valdes Hern-andez, a Cuban Catholic dissident, echoed that assessment in Washington last week, saying that Cuban society was in its ?terminal phase?...
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