Hints and tips:
...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”....
...“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....
...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...
...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...
...At the Colón cemetery, swooping angels and great sepulchres recalled Spain at the height of its glory....
...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...
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