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Television
From Narcos to Griselda: ‘If Scorsese stops making crime stuff, we’ll stop with the drugs’
...By contrast, Mexican cartel boss Sandra Ávila Beltrán was a third-generation drug trafficker who inspired the TV series Queen of the South....
January 10, 2024
ObituaryEdith Grossman
Edith Grossman, translator, 1936-2023
...She built her early career on Latin American fiction, becoming the voice of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, before cementing her reputation with a highly acclaimed Don Quixote....
September 9, 2023
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
The Big Read
Brazil: how far will Bolsonaro go to win re-election?
...They are less ill-disposed towards Bolsonaro,” says Graziella Testa, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
June 26, 2022
The Big Read
The new commodity superpowers
...Chilean President Gabriel Boric said the plan to increase state control of lithium is the best chance Chile has to become a “developed economy” and to distribute wealth in a more just way....
August 8, 2023
News in-depthColombia
Ex-rebel Gustavo Petro faces uphill task to meet Colombian voters’ expectations
...Ricardo Ávila, senior analyst at El Tiempo newspaper, said Petro’s “first priority would be to calm the markets”, his second to seek dialogue with those who did not vote for him, his third to mend fences...
June 20, 2022
News in-depthBrazil
Royalists pine for days of empire in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
...Yet for Paula Vedoveli, a historian at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, royal rule will remain a thing of the past in Brazil....
January 3, 2020
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewBiography and memoir
Solitude & Company — charming account of Gabriel García Márquez’s life
...Gerald Martin’s 2008 biography, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, was exhaustive, yet the Colombian novelist remains elusive....
June 7, 2019
News in-depthBrazilian politics
Brazil’s election race leaves voters few options for real change
...“Brazil’s established parties are not loved but have shown how resilient they are,” said Oliver Stuenkel at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
August 13, 2018
The Big ReadDigital politics
How social media exposed the fractures in Brazilian democracy
...His running mate, Manuela d’Ávila, is from the Communist party of Brazil....
September 27, 2018
Life & Arts
Alec Russell’s Diary: Cocaine, Coetzee, the agony of writing and how to fight cancer
...Vásquez loyally salutes the luminaries of Latin American literature’s golden years — Mario Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and more....
February 2, 2018
Life & Arts
Rio rebooted: why luxury brands are buying into the city
...Hermès’ first Rio outpost, in a two-storey 1940s house on Rua Garcia D’Avila, has tapped directly into this consumer mood....
October 14, 2016
Global Economy
Historic twist as Brazil awaits Lula’s fate
...“His appointment was just as important as the result of a presidential election in Brazil,” says Gabriel Petrus, analyst at the consultancy Barral M Jorge Associates in Brasília....
March 17, 2016
Brazilian economy
Brazil cans carnival as recession bites
...The gloom is evident in the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s consumer confidence index, which has fallen to new lows in recent months. Ms Rousseff’s approval ratings have shown a similar trajectory....
January 11, 2016
World
Winds of change extract a heavy price on Barcelona’s book industry
...And it was here, in the 1960s, that literary agent Carmen Balcells added Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and many other great writers to her client list, placing Barcelona at the centre of the...
March 30, 2014
World
Novels tell of northeast Brazil’s colonial past
...The carnage was a foretaste of the industrialised slaughter of the first world war, according to Gerald Martin, the biographer of Gabriel García Márquez and author of Journeys Through the Labyrinth (1989...
March 26, 2014
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Q&ALife & Arts
Small Talk: Philipp Meyer
...Gabriel García Márquez or Günter Grass. What are you scared of? Not that much, which sort of shows the size of my ego....
July 26, 2013
beyondbricsMarkets
bb review: Hay in Cartagena – made for each other
...It also helps that Cartagena has been for years the second residence of the iconic Colombian writer and Nobel laureate, Gabriel García Márquez....
January 29, 2013
Life & Arts
Best books of 2014
...… Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, Harvill Secker, RRP£20/ Knopf, RRP$25.95 Years after the title character is told by his closest...
November 28, 2014
ObituaryUK schools
Chronicler of Mexico’s failings
...That position enabled him, together with other literary greats of el boom such as Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, to reach a global audience....
May 18, 2012
ObituaryWorld
Novelist Fuentes dies, age 83
...Tightly associated with Latin America’s literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which included novelists such as Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, Fuentes was outspoken on a...
May 15, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Redeemers
...By contrast, Vargas Llosa has continued to protest against all forms of authoritarianism, be that of the left or right....
August 12, 2011
World
Publishing: A literary hub built on rich history and skills
...In the 1960s, this link led to the emergence of the Latin American “boom” generation that included Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, who spent many years in Barcelona....
March 21, 2011
Life & Arts
Vargas Llosa Nobel is ‘great day for Peru’
...overlooked by the Nobel Prize committee because of his centre-right political views, which contrast with the leftist positions of notable Latin American authors and poets such as Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel...
October 7, 2010
Books
First Peruvian to win Nobel literature award
...Like many of his Latin American contemporaries, including Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez, he was an early supporter of left-wing regimes such as Fidel Castro’s, in Cuba....
October 7, 2010
News in-depthThe Big Read
Mexico: Downward drift
...Abroad, economists and businessmen thought Mexico’s emergence as a full democracy would unleash an economic potential held back by a political system that Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, once...
June 29, 2010

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