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...Cervantes would be followed by more Spaniards, exquisite translations ranging from Luis de Góngora’s The Solitudes to Carmen Laforet’s Nada....
...But he will be under pressure to unveil his choice soon: names under consideration include Macri’s former central bank head Federico Sturzenegger and former finance minister Luis Caputo, according to local...
...The scandal came to the fore after Luis Ricardo Miranda, chief of the ministry’s import division, highlighted alleged irregularities in invoices....
...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....
...“Two young people have been sacrificed absurdly, stupidly, unjustly by the police,” said Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru’s Nobel Prize-winning author, in a video posted on social media....
...But Raymundo Vargas, who owns a garage now suffering a lack of car parts from China as supply chains are disrupted, said a three-month tax breather would be better....
...Justice minister Judit Varga indicated in an interview published last weekend in Die Welt that some of the emergency decrees could become permanent....
...One of the centre’s marine biologists, Luis Vargas-Chacoff, opens the door of a walk-in refrigerated lab, and shows me another species that is a potential climate-change loser....
...On Sunday, Mr Guaidó was detained briefly by security forces who stopped his car on a highway between Caracas and his home state of Vargas....
...But Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organisation of American States called it the “biggest electoral fraud” in Latin America’s history....
...But La dictadura picks up again the story of Vargas, the murderous garbage man with presidential ambitions....
...The Discreet Hero begins, promisingly enough, with an epigraph from a text by Jorge Luis Borges: “Our beautiful task is to imagine there is a labyrinth and a thread.”...
...“The appreciated peso and exchange rate controls are choking economic growth,” Pilar Tavella and Sebastian Vargas, analysts at Barclays, said in a note to clients....
...When a sleazy Mexican state governor, Carmelo Vargas, is caught on camera receiving a suitcase of dollars from a drug lord, his career appears to be in ruins....
...“All of this will be gone in minutes, so I’d rather stay the night out than be hungry the rest of the week,” says Magali Vargas, visibly tired at dawn....
...“Lack of economic growth in general limits opportunities and social mobility,” says Luis de la Calle, an economist in Mexico City....
...The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges commented wryly: “One Hundred Years of Solitude is all right but it would be better if it was 20 or 30 years shorter.”...
...Mr Vargas Llosa, who lost a presidential bid to Ms Fujimori’s father, Alberto, in 1990, blasted Alejandro Toledo, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Luis Castañeda for splitting a sizeable voter base that favoured...
...Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa had called the Humala-Fujimori runoff option ‘a choice between AIDS and terminal cancer,’ because of concerns about their anti-democratic tendencies....
...Two days before Peruvians go to the polls, Toledo is calling on rival candidates Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Luis Castaneda to strike a deal that will unite their shared centre-right supporters to gain a...
...Polls give Mr Toledo the best chance of beating Mr Humala in a run-off vote, but without the support of PPK or flagging candidate Luis Castañeda, he may not make it over the line....
...Authorities believe the killing, the highest-profile murder of a Mexican politician since the slaying of 1994 presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, was the work of the drug cartels....
..., had moved into key leadership positions within the unruly Uribista coalition in recent weeks, undermining the aspirations of Juan Manuel Santos, defence minister, and German Vargas Lleras, leader of the...
...It is a screenplay oeuvre that merits, for some fans, a Latin American art throne alongside Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Jorge Luís Borges....
...This year’s programme includes appearances by Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda and Mexican writer and editor Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and will take place from January 29 to February 1. www.hayfestival.com/cartagena...
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