Hints and tips:
...Born Juan Azarías Pacheco Knipping in the Dominican Republic’s second city, Santiago de los Caballeros, Pacheco came with his family to New York in the early days of the mambo boom, when he was eleven....
...Melina Aguilar Colón (who had introduced me to the coffee farmer Jonathan) is my guide. We don’t walk far....
...Juan Luis Herrero of Lucas Fox says he has noticed a “significant” increase in inquiries and transactions since the separatist debate heated up two months ago....
...Reputations, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99/Riverhead, RRP$25, 192 pages...
...The Dominican Republic honoured de la Renta with the order al Merito de Juan Pablo Duarte and the order of Cristobol Colon....
...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....
...I would have lingered but, to keep with the wandering spirit of San Sebastián, we walked round the corner to Hidalgo 56, the tapas bar of chef Juan Mari Humada, renowned for its ancho ahumado, smoked fresh...
...The cycle began in 1516 when Juan Diaz de Solis, while celebrating his discovery of the river, was captured on its banks by the native inhabitants, who subsequently ate him....
...The Catalan writer Jordi Punti has redubbed Plaza Colon the “Plaza Roja” – Spain’s Red Square....
...While Mr García leans heavily on Haya de la Torre, Mr Humala, a former army officer, has marketed himself as the political heir of Juan Velasco Alvarado, the leftwing military dictator who governed Peru...
...Cresa faces a rival bid of €80 a share for 26 per cent of the company from Joaquin Rivero, Metrovacesa’s chairman, and Juan Bautista Soler, the owner of Valencia Football Club....
...The controversial Argentine leader preferred a break in his home province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia to going with the Dutch monarch to the ballet, in the opulence of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires....
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