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...Claiming he was facing “unconscionable persecution”, he added: “I will defend my honour. I will defend my innocence.” Read more about Luis Rubiales here....
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...“I was very excited to the point that I lost control . . . So I made that sign to you,” he told Vilda, a sign to salute his courage. “Olé, your balls.”...
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...With the prospect of two bald men fighting over a comb (to steal from Jorge Luis Borges) this year in the US, I suggest the sneering Anglosphere could learn a lot from a small but plucky Central American...
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...In a statement after Rubiales’ defiant speech, Vilda said: “I deeply regret that the victory of Spanish women’s football has been harmed by the improper behaviour of our former head, Luis Rubiales, which...
...“I like the way Luis Barragán or Frank Lloyd Wright frame,” writes Rhael Cape in his poem “The Absence of Light”. “The way light is threaded, sewn and embroidered into the fabric of their buildings.”...
...The Organization of American States, dominated by the US and led by a combative conservative secretary-general Luis Almagro, is unpopular with Latin America’s socialist leaders....
...“This is part of an ongoing transition regarding China exposure for US government money,” said Jason Lui, head of east Asia strategy for BNP Paribas....
...“Boys and girls [in the US] don’t grow up thinking, ‘I’m going to be a writer’,” he once said, “the way we’re told Flaubert did.”...
...“Of course I will keep my word,” Montenegro said. “I would never do such evil to myself, my party and my country as to not fulfil the commitments I made so clearly.”...
...As Abinader puts it: “It’s a simple recipe and I didn’t invent it . . . we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.” michael.stott@ft.com...
...Cascais, which was home to King Luís I’s summer residence in the late 19th century, is a 10-minute drive further west....
...“I think you have to watch her closely,” he said. “She is ready . . . for anything.”...
...Some of them have said ‘it’s just too complicated, I don’t want to be waiting’.”...
...“I am wondering if it’s not pure vested interests — the smell of a big privatisation wave coming and its investment banking mandates.”...
...The chorus of criticism of Rubiales was joined by Luis de la Fuente, manager of Spain’s men’s football team, who said: “I unreservedly condemn [his] misguided and inappropriate behaviour.”...
...Luis De Jesus, owner of an eponymous gallery established in LA in 2010, agrees. “There’s been an obvious readjustment since the feeding frenzy in 2020,” he says....
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