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...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....
...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...
...They teamed up with Damián Ortega, José’s brother Gabriel Kuri, Cruzvillegas and Jerónimo López Ramírez, better known as tattoo artist Dr Lakra....
...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....
...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....
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...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”....
...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....
...If Olvera’s food is minimalist, Ortiz’s is simply beautiful....
...Confidence was bolstered last year when Mr Calderón appointed the respected finance minister, Agustín Carstens, to succeed Guillermo Ortiz as governor of the Bank of Mexico....
...As a result, US dollars are accepted alongside the local currency, the colón....
...Guillermo Ortiz, governor of Mexico’s central bank, said this month that the economy had probably touched bottom....
...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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