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...Among its pioneers was the Spanish disc jockey José Padilla, who has died at the age of 64....
...“They’ve erected a protective shield against abortion,” said Cristina Alvarado of the Women for Peace Visitación Padilla women’s rights group. “This is historic . . ....
...When salsa legend Willie Colón tweets, “Black Beans Matter”, you know that US politics has truly degenerated into a food fight....
...The boys crowd round their father, Jose Adán, who fought for the contras in the mountains....
...José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” is the solitary vieja castaña. Elsewhere, a well-chosen selection of folk songs and festive curios predominates....
...The excellent English spoken by many Costa Ricans and the acceptance of dollars instead of the national colón currency almost anywhere makes its welcome warmer....
...Below Guanacaste Province and less than two hours from the international airport in San José, Costa Rica’s capital, the 1,100-acre Los Sueños Resort and Marina offers a range of apartments and detached homes...
...In Madrid, thousands of people gathered beneath an enormous Spanish flag in Colon Plaza waving their own, singing and chanting “Viva España” and “Viva Catalonia”....
...The powerful control board established to oversee a restructuring of Puerto Rico’s $69bn debt burden elected insurance executive Jose Carrión III as its chairman on Friday as it set a two-week deadline for...
...The board will be joined by governor Alejandro García Padilla as an ex officio member, who will not have the ability to vote on its decisions....
...“Venezuelans are facing one of the highest murder rates in the hemisphere and urgently need effective protection from violent crime,” said José Miguel Vivanco HRW’s Americas director....
...It has long-term debt of $76bn and $90.5bn in pension liabilities and new chief executive José Antonio González Anaya says its debts are “unsustainable”....
...John Padilla, managing director of IPD Latin America, a consultancy, is less sanguine. “This [aid] clearly does not resolve the underlying structural problems that face the company....
...Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla performs a pass during a bullfight at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona...
...“Puerto Rico can avoid a costly default,” said Jose Fajgenbaum, a director at Centennial Group Latin America, which is advising the bondholders group, and one of the authors of the report, in a media call...
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...Alternatively, head for the Plaza de Colón and Platea, a supercharged top-end take on the food court unveiled in July in a converted art-deco cinema with interiors by Spanish design doyen Lázaro Rosa Violán...
...However, increasingly, Colombia, Peru and even Costa Rica are turning into brothers in arms, determined to ease the appreciation of their own currencies, the peso, the sol and the colón, respectively....
...Prof Lo and MIT colleagues, Jose-Maria Fernandez and Roger Stein, have proposed the creation of a $30bn “megafund” that would invest inearly-stage biomedical research and drug development....
...As a result, US dollars are accepted alongside the local currency, the colón....
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, has found a new slogan – menos ladrillo y más ordenadores (“less bricks and mortar, more computers”) – to describe the policies he hopes will...
...Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member who sparked a confrontation between the US administration and the courts over detentions in the “war on terror”, was jailed on Tuesday for more than 17 years for supporting...
...“José Padilla received a fair trial and a just verdict.” Lawyers for Mr Padilla had argued that he moved to Egypt in 1998 to study Arabic and Islam....
...In one famous terrorism case, Judge Mukasey found a middle ground between the demands of the government and the rights of a detainee, Jose Padilla....
...The tango melody is borrowed from José Padilla’s song “La Violetera” – you can hear it sung in Lucrezia Bori’s captivating 1928 recording – but Chaplin’s tunes are compelling too....
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