Hints and tips:
...When salsa legend Willie Colón tweets, “Black Beans Matter”, you know that US politics has truly degenerated into a food fight....
...From my palatial balcony at Hotel Plaza Colón, I watch a trio of nuns tearing through yucca and vigorón (pork crackling) with their fingers....
...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...
...“It’s better for him to stay, to avoid a war and more bloodshed,” said José Ramón Centeno, in Monimbó, an indigenous neighbourhood of Masaya that was both a Sandinista stronghold in 1979 and the last bastion...
...and Jose Mourinho’s cousin....
...“This is producing a social rupture in Catalonia and this has to be resolved through dialogue, never via unilateralism,” said Jose Manuel Garcia, 61, an economist wearing white at one march....
...“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....
...huge rock, just like a castle should ● La Estación San Pablo must be the prettiest railway station in the world ● Zorro is a great little bar in Gaucín Photograph: Jose Colon...
...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...
...The monetary body’s chief, Jose Darío Uribe, echoing the concerns said it was committed to buying a minimum of $20m a day through the end of March to keep the peso’s appreciation in check....
...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...
...Havana filled me with life – there was a palpable buzz, a sense of whispers in the bushes even when I stepped out of José Martí international airport at 2am – and then smothered me under the blanket of a...
...A car stops and she leans towards the lowered tinted window to tell the occupants her fee: 10,000 colons ($20, €16.50, £11.50) an hour for conventional sex or 15,000 colons with her friend, a young black...
...Jose Perez, Boynton Beach, Florida, USA Andrew Balls: The bank is a multilateral institution - 184 members - so it has a global mission....
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