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...Maribel López is the managing director of ARCOmadrid, Spain’s largest contemporary art fair....
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...In the hotel La Residencia, ground zero of high-end tourism in these mountains, I stood with Chilean sculptor Juan Waelder under an orange tree outside his studio....
...On offer was a bold initiative: the promise of a free trade area stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego....
...“Clearly Amlo will keep on being Amlo, and this is something businesses and society have to learn to live with — we’re not going to change him,” said Antonio del Valle, head of the Mexican Business Council...
...But right now, it makes no sense,” said Juan Alberto Díaz López, a criminal law professor at Madrid’s Autonomous University.Díaz believes eliminating defamatory speech protections for the monarchy would...
...Orbia’s billionaire patriarch, 82-year-old Antonio del Valle, made his name in banking before president José López Portillo nationalised the sector in 1982....
...While there have been deaths across the country, it is striking how many have occurred in Cali, a city of 2.3m people in the restive south-west of the country, and the surrounding region of Valle del Cauca...
...But Mr Martínez-Valle, who joined Grupo Kaluz, Orbia’s holding company, in 2010 after cold-calling owner Antonio del Valle (no relation) to discuss his quest for “the most relevant social change platform...
...For now, Rocío del Valle Maneiro, the Maduro government’s ambassador to the UK, appears to hold the cards....
...Antonio del Valle, president of the Mexican Business Council, told me recently that despite corporate goodwill, “there are no clear projects to invest in” — only grand plans, not yet detailed projects....
...“It’s the Amlo effect 100 per cent,” said Juan Musi, director at brokerage Cifondos. “The local market is in panic…. There’s a lot of fear, nerves and pessimism over Mexico.”...
...Also tendering his resignation was Juan Carlos Zepeda, president of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH). He said in a statement he was leaving his post as of December....
...Quote of the week “This is not about me, but about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship” — José Antonio del Valle, a Mexican businessman on his dispute with Coca-Cola over a drink that aims to boost brain...
...Prado Museum, Paseo del Prado, 28014 (museodelprado.es). Restaurante Viridiana, Calle Juan de Mena 14, 28014 (restauranteviridiana.com)....
...Everyone’s on tenterhooks during the transition to the socialist administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The offices, I’m told, are going to be turned into a museum....
...Alberto Montoya Martín del Campo, an academic who has been proposed by incoming Energy Minister Rocío Nahle to become hydrocarbons undersecretary, has praised Venezuela and Bolivia....
...Briefly The latest Mexican opinion poll has leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador with nearly an 11 percentage point lead over his closest rival ahead of the July presidential election....
...“They sent a piece of shit out to navigate,” she added in Mar del Plata, where the submarine was scheduled to dock. There is understandable anger at the decrepitude of Argentina's naval fleet....
...On Twitter, Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos condemned “vandalism and looting” and said the situation was under control....
...Another of the alternative judges, Elenis del Valle Rodríguez, has taken refuge in the residence of the Chilean ambassador in Caracas....
...Mr López Obrador’s candidate, Delfina Gómez, and the PRI’s Alfredo Del Mazo are running virtually neck-and-neck in the State of Mexico polls, while Juan Zepeda, the PRD candidate, has surged to overtake...
...For many years she was a faithful chavista — in 2014 she jailed opposition politician Leopoldo López for leading anti-government protests....
...But time will not wait for us,” says Juan Triana, a Cuban economist. Meanwhile, although time may not move fast, Cuba’s people do. Its population is around 11m, but another 2m live abroad....
...Carlos, son of Juan Carlos López de Lacalle, who runs Artadi, thinks the name rioja no longer has any value. He points out that the rioja appellation is the second-biggest in the world....
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