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...The next morning in Santa Cruz, La Palma’s capital and main port, I meet Jonás Pérez who runs Isla Bonita Tours, a trekking company....
...And then climbed higher still, to the coffee plantations near the indigenous town of Santos Reyes Nopala, looking for the sources from which the water comes....
...The cross he erected on the shore — La Cruz de la Parra — is in the cathedral here, encased in ecclesiastical silver....
...By the time of the election this October, graffiti had already sprung up around La Paz and Santa Cruz, the largest cities, denouncing Mr Morales as a dictator....
...Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky; the last Shah of Iran; Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Spanish surrealist film-maker Luis Buñuel are just some of the leftists, leaders and luminaries who have taken refuge...
...Exiled from Cuba by Fidel Castro’s revolution, the singer Celia Cruz settled in New York, living for a while in Hell’s Kitchen....
...2016 2018 Political crisis over social security reform erupts and swiftly turns into nationwide anti-Ortega protests “Before April, you could have argued that he was a benign autocrat,” says Arturo Cruz...
...He went on to serve as Bolivia’s ambassador to the UK and Mexico, and now teaches at a private university in Santa Cruz, Bolivia....
...Its chief executive, Alex Cruz, has apologised but insisted he would not resign....
...The Cuban-American senator Ted Cruz, runner-up to president elect Donald Trump in the Republican presidential race, said: “If you wouldn’t go to Pol Pot’s funeral or Stalin’s funeral or Mao’s funeral because...
...Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and senator Ted Cruz of Texas were among the speakers at a Tea Party rally on Wednesday in an effort to denounce the Iran nuclear accord, reports Demetri Sevastopulo...
...Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 Gonzalez-Cruz worked for UPS and attended high school in New Jersey, according to his Facebook page....
...The US has long been a magnet for refugees, attracting everyone from Vietnamese after the Vietnam war to Cubans escaping the communist regime of Fidel Castro....
...Santa Cruz, its largest city, is home to most of the nation’s wealth and also frequent secessionary claims by grumpy agro-industrialists....
...“We won’t permit the elections,” says their spokesman, Felipe de la Cruz in the patio now taken over by a shrine to the missing, with chairs decked with photographs and banners....
...The curtain will drop after Celia Cruz’s “Yo Viveré”, a cover version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I will Survive”, while the encore is “Adiós”, a poppy salsa number....
...He also had to revise a story about his family fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba after it was pointed out that they came to the US before the revolution that brought Castro to power....
...In the 1970s, anyone in Miami advocating diálogo with Fidel risked getting bombed....
...Instead of extracting “significant concessions” from Cuba in exchange for rapprochement, Mr Cruz thundered....
...But the future would be far less clear under a Republican president, and cetainly the rhetoric from Ted Cruz sounds quintessentially hardline-Republican. The situation in Cuba is more complex....
...Fidel Castro’s kid brother is 81 years old and considering retirement. Red China is sitting on a mountain of greenbacks. Old Soviets wear Prada....
...Indeed, while once considered by many to be a communist and a supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he was also known for his criticism of the left....
...He also reserved plenty of criticism for the left, growing disenchanted with Fidel Castro’s vision for Cuba and labelling Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, “a tropical Mussolini”....
...The Little Havana district remains a bastion of Cuban exiles who for decades have plotted against Fidel Castro....
...The Spanish child should send assurances about angelic behaviour not to Father Christmas but to los Reyes Magos – the three kings or three wise men – and leave out shoes (not stockings) to receive presents...
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