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...Guayasamín was a life-long leftist who, like another friend in the photos, Gabriel García Márquez, stayed loyal to Castro and his ideals until the end....
...She was manager, adviser and gatekeeper to “Gabo”, the writer and journalist beloved by the public and connected to the powerful, from Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro, to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim,...
...The unrest culminated in riots where Cubans yelled for the end of the regime and were only quietened after Fidel Castro waded into the crowd....
...Gabriel García Márquez called Cuba “the most dance-orientated society on earth”. Cubans dance with fluid elegance. They swim through their music....
...Subsequently photographed with Presidents François Mitterrand, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and (not least) Fidel Castro, he was now a wealthy man with seven homes in five countries....
...Repression is not in our nature,” Álvaro García Linera, Bolivia’s vice-president, told the Financial Times....
...Álvaro García Linera, Mr Morales’ vice-president who resigned along with him on Sunday, was apocalyptic, saying that in a Bolivia without his boss, “there will be weeping and the sun will hide, the moon...
...There were, however, a handful of very successful female designers: Daisy Garcia, Helena Serrano and Gladys Acosta Avila among them....
...Exiled from Cuba by Fidel Castro’s revolution, the singer Celia Cruz settled in New York, living for a while in Hell’s Kitchen....
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...Nicaragua timeline 1937 Anastasio Somoza García elected president....
...Based in Madrid, Mr García De Pablo joins the ratings group from Banco Santander....
...About a year ago, we interviewed Miriam Leiva about the life of her late husband, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a Cuban economist who was persecuted by Fidel Castro’s security services and Miriam is herself an...
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...Cuban dissident and independent journalist Miriam Leiva speaks with Cardiff Garcia about the death of Fidel Castro, the reaction of Cubans, and her hopes for the economic and diplomatic relationship between...
...With the death of Fidel Castro, what next for Cuba — and most interestingly for this column, what next for the Cuban economy?...
...Che Guevara wore a Rolex; Fidel Castro wore two....
...But when the worst of the period had ended by 1996, Fidel Castro once again restricted private-sector activity and the government continued propagandising against it to reinforce the stigma of profit-making...
...My parents were both born on the island, and I grew up hearing tales of how their families had escaped the newly entrenched regime of Fidel Castro in 1959....
...In 1959 the US began plotting to unseat the regime of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. The plan has not worked yet. But the Castros, like Mr Blatter, cannot rule forever. Can they? simon.kuper@ft.com...
...Gabriel García Márquez, the revered Colombian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and once described by Fidel Castro as “the most powerful man in Latin America,” died at the age of...
...A well-known leftwinger, who was close to Cuba’s Fidel Castro, García Márquez was the master of magical realism – a blend of everyday Latin American realities and fantastical elements....
...Mr Chávez, his protégé, is only 58 years old, and still with a body that looks like “packed concrete,” as Gabriel García Márquez put it. But even he is now contemplating succession....
...Hugo Chávez, his ideological son, is only 58-years old (and with a body that still looks like “packed concrete,” as Gabriel García Márquez once put it)....
...“It is newspaper policy,” says Fidel Cano, El Espectador’s editor and the nephew of Don Guillermo – one sign of editorial continuity under its new owners....
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