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....
...But the consistently shouty tone of John Ortiz’s staging seems unbalanced....
...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...
...“I have to be honest, there’s no internal [government] criticism,” says José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, author of a flattering López Obrador biography and his former private secretary....
...In a new biography, José Agustín Ortíz Pinchetti, who served in the candidate’s cabinet for part of his 2000-05 tenure as Mexico City mayor, paints a picture of a political animal who grew up in Tabasco...
...In a first for the gallery and for Photo London (from May 17), Almanaque will present the work of three generations of Mexican artists, including a new documentary-style work by Pablo Ortíz-Monasterio entitled...
...In a low-ceilinged courtroom just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, Jose Ortiz waits to learn whether he can stay in the US....
...“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...
...The surprise is the choice of new CEO: José Marcos Ramírez Miguel – a man with a quarter-century record in banking and finance but only four years at Banorte, where he has been managing director of the wholesale...
...A number of other one-man shows are excellent: one on José Ortiz Echagüe (1886-1980), a brilliant specialist in the gloriously rich Fresson carbon printing process who makes a nonsense of so many of the...
...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...
...Let’s hope the telecoms law ends up reflecting this,” said Aitor Ortiz, a telecoms expert at Cidac, a think-tank....
...The move was described by Spain’s industrial minister José Manuel Soria as a sign of “greater confidence and credibility”....
...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....
...If Olvera’s food is minimalist, Ortiz’s is simply beautiful....
...At the weekend, José Antonio Meade, a deputy finance minister, said investment in programmes to regenerate jobs and boost public works amounted to 1.8 per cent of gross domestic product in 2009, “a sum that...
...As a result, US dollars are accepted alongside the local currency, the colón....
...Things have become so acute that José Reyes Ferriz, the mayor, refers to the downturn as “the perfect storm”. He told the Financial Times recently: “We have a big problem.”...
...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...
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