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The Big Read
The condo king betting that Miami’s Covid-era boom is here to stay
...Then came Fidel Castro. Pérez’s parents supported him at first — only to lose everything. “They did not think that the revolution was going to be what it ended up being,” Pérez recalls....
December 3, 2023
Colombia
Colombian rebel group releases father of footballer Luis Díaz
...The ELN was formed in 1964 by a group of radical students who had studied in communist Cuba and were inspired by Fidel Castro’s Marxist revolution....
November 9, 2023
FT Live
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Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
The Big Read
The surprising resurgence of Republicans in Miami
...It was roiled by tensions between an impoverished black community, a displaced Anglo elite and fresh waves of immigrants fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba....
December 19, 2022
The Big Read
‘There is no food, money or work’: how shortages fuelled Cuba protests
...“The government needs to open up every opportunity possible to the private sector,” says Cuban economist Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva a former University of Havana professor....
July 16, 2021
Energy Source
Why Mexico’s latest energy rule is likely to see a court challenge Premium content
...The move could be challenged under WTO rules on the grounds that the new measures constitute a barrier to trade, Ávila said....
June 24, 2021
Americas politics & policy
Artists and activists stage rare rights protest in Cuba
...It drew support from well-known cultural figures, including singer Carlos Varela, who called on the authorities for dialogue, while film-maker Fernando Perez quipped “it is time for a new language” before...
November 28, 2020
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
FT SeriesFrieze Week 2019
The art behind Cuban propaganda
...Acosta Avila’s formidable silkscreen of Hatuey, a Taíno chief and early freedom fighter, stands out....
September 26, 2019
Special ReportInvesting in Mendoza
Argentina: Mendoza’s economy surmounts natural — and man-made — hazards
...“We have to integrate the value chain,” says Gabriel Fidel, an Argentine member of the Mercosur parliament, the trade bloc’s representative body....
March 21, 2018
World
Peso rallies as results point to poll win for Mexico’s ruling PRI
...An admirer of Fidel Castro, he splits opinion between those who brand him a dangerous populist and those who hail him as a reformer....
June 5, 2017
World
Venezuela’s US spat takes on a Cold War edge
...In a letter, Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader, last week praised Mr Maduro’s “brilliant and brave” response to what he described as “brutal” US plans against Venezuela....
March 15, 2015
Life & Arts
In praise of revolution
...Rubin owns more paintings by Douglas Peréz (25 of them) than by any other artist, in part because Peréz’s surrealistic canvases poke fun at the revolution and the US embargo....
May 3, 2013
FT Magazine
Gossip guy
...In the summer of 2007 this child of Cuban immigrants almost caused an international incident when he reported that Fidel Castro had died....
August 3, 2012
The World blogWorld
Latin American strength comes in myriad guises
...Now, alongside Fidel Castro, he is the most disliked leader among Latin Americans, according to Latinobarómetro, a regional poll....
November 7, 2011
World
Ties bolster regimes in Havana and Caracas
...Mr Pérez, who participated in a first abortive Cuban invasion of Venezuela in 1967, says this second invasion is the fruit of a “political seduction” campaign by Fidel Castro to convince Mr Chávez to shore...
September 14, 2011
Americas economy
Cuba’s economy at a crossroads
...When former Cuban president Fidel Castro quipped to American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg this month that “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”, his comments reverberated around the world....
September 12, 2010
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Commodities
Cuba worries as sugar industry dissolves
...Cuban sugar minister Luis Manuel Ávila resigned earlier this month. His deputy, González Orlando Celso, is destined to be the island’s last such minister. “Sugar cane is part of Cuba’s patrimony . . ....
May 18, 2010
Americas politics & policy
Raúl uses film to lay down the law
...The cabinet members and Fidel protégés remain free. Mr Perez is working at an electronics factory and Mr Valenciaga at the national library, while Mr Lage remains holed up at home....
July 15, 2009
Americas politics & policy
Cuban weddings, video and political funerals
...Mr Lage, long considered a leading candidate to succeed Fidel, arrives from a politburo meeting to tell Felipe Perez Roque, foreign minister, and other friends and family gathered on a hotel balcony that...
July 14, 2009
Americas politics & policy
Cuban-Americans shift on dialogue with Havana
...“New people may be arriving,” Ms Pérez said. “But still not enough to make it a majority.”...
September 1, 2009
Americas politics & policy
Castro era comes to an end after 49 years
...As Marifeli Pérez-Stable, a Cuban-American sociologist at Florida International University, put it in a recent book: “The comandante…has wielded an impregnable veto over the economic transformations…He has...
February 20, 2008
Americas politics & policy
Cuba’s old guard jostles with young guns
...and Fidel Castro’s former private secretary....
February 19, 2008
Americas politics & policy
Analysis: What next for Cuba?
...As Marifeli Pérez-Stable, a Cuban American sociologist at Florida International University, put it in a recent book*: ”The comandante… has wielded an impregnable veto over the economic transformations… he...
February 19, 2008
Americas politics & policy
Fresh edge to new Cuba embargo call
...Speaking for Cuba, Felipe Pérez Roque, foreign minister, said the embargo was the biggest obstacle to the welfare and development of the Cuban people....
October 30, 2007
Life & Arts
The rock-star revolutionary of Caracas
...Military conspirators describe how Mr Chávez built up support among fellow officers for the attempt to overthrow the democratically elected but unpopular government of Carlos Andrés Pérez....
August 26, 2007
Emerging markets
Cubans adjust to new life without Fidel
...It was Mr Castro who called the shots to defeat the motion, Mr Pérez Roque said. “Fidel followed everything....
November 14, 2006

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