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...She then focused on three-dimensional works that honoured Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) rituals as a “form of cultural reclamation”, Mesa-Bains says, speaking from her home in San Juan Bautista on...
...of Spain’s transition to add special protections for royalty “in the face of a possible lack of public support”, said Gómez Bravo....
...The local priest, Father Francisco Olveira, better known here as Padre Paco, admits that his impoverished congregation is “somewhat lapsed” and “does not have to go to mass on Sundays”....
...The air was filled with roses, the hum of laughter broken by the rapid beat of the greatest dancer of them all – Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito” – who took to the floor with a click...
...The consensual Juan Manuel Santos has been replaced by centre-right president Iván Duque....
...Economist Francisco Rodríguez believes there is still hope because “Venezuela is a patient in intensive care, not one suffering from a terminal illness.”...
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...On a rest stop, I saw a red Juan Fernández firecrown (an endangered species of hummingbird) flitting about the flowers of a cabbage tree....
...“It was a very unpopular decision but we had to do it,” says Mr del Mazo Fernández....
...On Tuesday, Miguel Angel Fernández Ordóñez, the outgoing bank governor appointed by the Socialists, is due in the parliamentary dock....
...“Sometimes you might find a good painting lacking beauty and delicacy,” wrote Inquisition art censor Francisco Pacheco....
...“It has been a difficult time for the fund management industry in Spain,” says Luisa Gómez Bravo, head of global asset management at BBVA, Spain’s second biggest bank....
...In 1704 the cantankerous buccaneer Alexander Selkirk quarrelled with his captain and was offloaded on the rocky island of San Juan Fernández, 600 miles south of Valparaíso, Chile....
...Its return to democracy and prosperity after a civil war and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco is, after all, one of the great success stories of postwar Europe....
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