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...Stiffly determined aristocrats — Velázquez’s moustache-curling “Count-Duke of Olivares”, Goya’s wigged, powdered “Manuel Lapeña” — tower above us, while a laughing “Lucienne Bréval as Carmen” shines in the...
...Manuel Villafaina, owner of the Los Manueles beachfront restaurant in the Spanish resort of Torremolinos, has hosted his share of celebrities over the years....
...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...
...For Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his supporters, the detention was proof that the peace process works — when someone breaks its terms they will be punished, no matter who they are....
...The central bank really needed to get in front of the situation by raising rates by at least 75bp,” said Edwin Gutiérrez, Aberdeen Asset Management’s head of emerging markets sovereign debt....
...Juan Manuel Gutiérrez Bernaldo de Quirós, who joins from Credit Suisse, and José Luis Ruiz González, who joins from Santander Private Banking, will become directors in the private banking business....
...Yet President Juan Manuel Santos’s re-election attempt is struggling....
...He was the only parliamentarian, with the exception of Lt Gen Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado and the Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, who refused to lie down and take cover when the guardsmen began firing on...
...It was another intense week for Colombia after the initial announcement that the government of Juan Manuel Santos has been holding “exploratory” peace talks with leftwing FARC rebels....
...peace talks that will last “months, not years,” according to the country’s president, Juan Manuel Santos....
...Related reading: Interview transcript: Juan Manuel Santos, FT Colombia file, beyondbrics...
...Colombia will sell another 9.9 per cent stake in state-run Ecopetrol as early as the first half of 2011 after President Juan Manuel Santos gave the company his permission on Thursday....
...We are going to help Juan become the next governor.”...
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