Luis Blanco-Matos

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Far-right former football pundit shakes up Portugal

...Luís Montenegro, leader of the centre-right Democratic Alliance coalition, which includes the Social Democrats, said Chega lacked the “responsibility” and “maturity” needed to govern....

March 1, 2024

Art Basel 2023

Art Basel’s Parcours section turns churches, tunnels and roundabouts into galleries

...For the grand contemporary-art library of the Kunstmuseum, Portuguese artist Luís Lázaro Matos is staging an intervention that subverts its austere quiet with a work about desire “with an underlying, sexy...

June 9, 2023

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Travel

Postcard from Gran Canaria: a ‘gastronomic explosion’ on the holiday island

...tones of Canary-Island Spanish, she explained that in the past the local wine was often rough and rustic stuff but was now doing justice to aromatic local grape varieties such as Albillo Criollo, Vijariego Blanco...

January 6, 2023

FT Magazine

Battle between Lula and Bolsonaro heats up ahead of Brazil’s election

...Only a few weeks after that rally, a Lula supporter was stabbed to death by a Bolsonaro fan during a political argument in the central-west state of Mato Grosso....

September 16, 2022

Brazilian politics

Pro-Bolsonaro rallies put Brazil on edge

...Ahead of the rallies, police had also expanded the security detail for Luís Roberto Barroso, another justice who has repeatedly clashed with Bolsonaro over the president’s unfounded claims of voter fraud...

September 7, 2021

Coronavirus

Brazil vaccine scandal poses fresh political threat to Bolsonaro

...Luis Miranda, a federal lawmaker and brother of the whistleblower who first flagged the Covaxin contract issues, has said they personally raised the concerns in March with Bolsonaro....

June 30, 2021

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News in-depthGlobal Insight

Covid-19 has silver linings for Argentina’s president

...“It has fit him like a ring on his finger to consolidate power,” says Luis Tonelli, a political scientist. The pandemic has provided a distraction from Argentina’s existing economic woes....

April 28, 2020

Argentina

Argentines take no chances as default fears grow

...Already, Luis Barrionuevo, who leads the union of restaurant workers, fears that almost half of the country’s 45,000 bars and restaurants could close in the coming weeks and months....

May 20, 2020

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson on the new wave of Spanish wines

...The grapes responsible for Vinho Verde — chiefly Loureira, Treixadura and Caiño Blanco — over the Miño river are grown in Rías Baixas too....

March 13, 2020

News in-depthVenezuela

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tightens grip on media

...During the power outage, local radio journalist Luis Carlos Diáz was briefly arrested and accused of orchestrating it....

March 27, 2019

FT CollectionsLatin American upheaval

Will Argentina be safe in the Peronists’ hands?

...“This coalition will not be a long-lasting one,” says Jimena Blanco, head of Americas research at Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy....

October 22, 2019

European separatism

Eta announces dissolution and ends campaign for Basque independence

...The group quickly turned to armed conflict, and possibly changed the course of Spain’s transition from dictatorship when it assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish prime minister, with a car bomb in Madrid...

May 2, 2018

European separatism

Eta apologises to victims of violent separatist campaign

...The group quickly turn to armed conflict, and possibly changed the course of Spain’s transition from the Franco dictatorship when it assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, the Spanish prime minister, with a car...

April 20, 2018

Due Diligence

FT investigation: Guggenheim faces allegations of self-dealing Premium

...Picón will become managing partner in Spain at the end of the year when Latham's José Luis Blanco retires....

November 3, 2017

FT Magazine

After Eta: Spain’s history of violence

...The group went on to assassinate Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco’s chosen successor in 1973, a killing that had profound political repercussions....

January 27, 2017

FT Live

Investing in America

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Law

Young legal innovators: new generation of original thinkers

...Luís Roquette Geraldes, lawyer, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Luis Roquette Geraldes launched Team Genesis, which supports technology start-ups in their early stages....

October 5, 2016

Beer and spirits

Tequila takes a shot at the premium market

...“The [success of the] 100 per cent has taken the industry a bit by surprise,” admits Luis Velasco, president of the National Tequila Industry Chamber....

October 21, 2016

World

Orlando nightclub attack: profiles of the victims

...Ms Blanco was treated for gunshot wounds but her condition remains unclear....

June 14, 2016

Americas society

The digital revolution liberating Latin American people

...Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state launched a free online service to prepare high school students for a tough national exam in which a good grade is a prerequisite for admission to federal universities....

July 12, 2015

Letter

Argentina is threatening the future of financial markets

...José Luis Blanco Claro, Santiago, Chile...

June 25, 2014

Letter

Paying vultures would confirm public’s worst suspicions

...Sir, José Luis Blanco (Letters, June 26) frets that public trust in financial markets will be endangered if Argentina does not pay what the New York court ordered....

June 29, 2014

Americas business

Drama of state violence grips Mexico

..., Iñaky Blanco, told reporters....

October 9, 2014

World

Real Madrid signs James Rodriguez for €80m

...He will be presented to fans of Los Blancos on Tuesday....

July 22, 2014

Martin Wolf

Defend Argentina from the vultures

...Blanco Claro Act together to prevent more sovereign debt crises / From Mr Brett House...

June 24, 2014

World

Hopes of thaw as Peña Nieto heads to China

...In that sense, insiders say that Mexico’s president is likely to raise with Mr Xi the possibility of Chinese backing for Herminio Blanco, the Mexican former trade negotiator, as candidate for the post of...

April 4, 2013

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