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Television
From Narcos to Griselda: ‘If Scorsese stops making crime stuff, we’ll stop with the drugs’
...One of my biggest references was Gena Rowlands in [John Cassavetes’ 1980 thriller] Gloria, more than The Godfather or Scarface.”...
January 10, 2024
The Big Read
The new commodity superpowers
...John Baffes, head of the Commodities Unit at the World Bank, who has studied these groups, says successful cartels have three characteristics: a small number of producers, who share a well-defined objective...
August 8, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
The Big Read
Can Lula put Brazilian democracy back together again?
...Luis Felipe D’Avila, a political scientist and former rightwing presidential candidate, is one of those who has voiced concern....
January 13, 2023
ReviewLife & Arts
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère — a religious journey
...Its interest is intellectual as well as spiritual, suggesting connections with the lives and classic works of great Catholic mystics: Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, Simone Weil....
March 3, 2017
FT SeriesFT critics’ fiction picks for April 2017
The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney — agony and ecstasy
...Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’ (Profile) The Blood Miracles, by Lisa McInerney, John Murray, RRP£14.99, 299 pages Illustration by Dan Mitchell...
April 13, 2017
Life & Arts
Artist Celia Paul explores the beauty of melancholy
...Teresa of Avila says sometimes God gives you a pattern, you have to fill it in. With my art, things do just happen, you have to accept it....
September 2, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Anjana Ahuja
The minds that are first in their Fields
...The age limit was set by John Charles Fields, the Canadian mathematician who established the awards in 1936, as “an encouragement for further achievement on the part of the recipients and a stimulus to renewed...
August 13, 2014
Life & Arts
Sacred music experiences a revival
...John Studzinski of the Genesis Foundation, which has created a series of commissions in partnership with The Sixteen, agrees....
December 5, 2014
Life & Arts
Best books of 2014
...… By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$15.95 The volcanic island of Annobón, off the west African coast, provides the setting...
November 28, 2014
World
Bogotá sets up Farc peace negotiations
...The Farc leaders’ main challenge “is to take the organisation through a dignified process that implies more than surrender and a laying down of arms,” said conflict analyst Ariel Avila....
August 28, 2012
InterviewClimate change
Californians reassess attitudes to reactors
...In operation for 25 years now, the two nuclear reactors barely register in the minds of most residents of Avila Beach, eight miles downwind....
March 18, 2011
Aerospace & Defence
Japan carmakers’ supply woes hit EU and US
...Jim D’Avila, regional officer for the union Unite, told the Financial Times that the options Honda was discussing with workers included working a week with reduced hours, shutting down for four weeks, or...
April 5, 2011
UK companies
Honda moots alternative to redundancies
...“We intend to ensure that these discussions are genuine negotiations which seek to produce a realistic outcome,” Jim D’Avila, the union’s regional officer, said....
March 24, 2009
Asia-Pacific companies
Nissan slashes staff in Spain as sales drop
...Nissan also has two other plants in Avila and Cantabria, and also makes Cabstar and Atleon light trucks in Spain....
October 13, 2008
World
Business hubs: Take a hike on the wild side of an oil state
...What to do Caracas is set at the foot of the spectacular Avila, a beautiful and imposing mountain that separates the city from the coast. A cable car ride will deliver you to excellent views....
September 14, 2008
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Terrorism
Observer - US
...A family member revealed she was descended from the illegitimate child of Maximino Ávila Camacho, the playboy brother of Mexico's president in the 1940s....
March 10, 2005

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