Hints and tips:
...Once again, I’m grateful to have followed the kite....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is ricotta salata cheese from Porto Bello restaurant in Salina....
...I come and go as I please, I like to cook and to entertain people here, but I also like to be alone, and because I’m in a village I never feel isolated.”...
...Within hours of the announcement Ricardo Salinas, a prominent Mexican billionaire with interests in banking and television, expressed interest....
...Salinas Pliego’s Banco Azteca — ninth largest by deposits — wasted no time in entering the fray on Tuesday saying he would look at the assets....
...Then there’s the Principe di Salina. It’s simple; its 12 rooms are spare and white, its sitting room a cute hybrid of California and Sicily....
...The volcano on Stromboli, some 40km away from where I’m perched on the Aeolian island of Salina, even puts on a show with random hiccups of fire illuminating the approaching night....
...Morgan Stanley is hiring UBS banker Emilio Greco to head its financial services M&A business in Italy. Read more here from Reuters....
...People think I’m the executioner . . . [but], in a democracy, the people rule,” he said....
...“I’m not going to cover up murky actions from the past but nor am I seeking reprisals . . . vengeance is not my strong suit,” he said at his daily news conference....
...They say I’m a terrorist that brought the virus to kill the whole world,” complained Carmela Hountou, the designer, at the time....
...“I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. He can’t change the country overnight.” Supporters say he is to be applauded for trying a different tack. “I was a neoliberal....
...“What are you going to do when I’m gone?” jude.webber@ft.com...
...I’m not trying to end competition . . . We just want them [private companies] to be honest and pay what they have to.”...
...“This isn’t sustainable, what I’m doing for these families,” she said. “At some point, somebody needs to help.” Tell us about what’s happening around you. Are jobs being cut?...
...Salinas is one of a growing number of designers making clothing from waste plastics....
...Great and unusual California wines are being made and, I’m particularly delighted to see, some are finding their way across the Atlantic....
...This first episode finds him on Salina, one of the Aeolian islands, and as anyone who’s ever been there will tell you, it’s all about the capers....
...“I’m fed up with Mexico being an unsafe country,” says Bernardo León, who led the Morelia initiative and now advises León’s scheme....
...One Mexican official calls them “unworkable, and I’m being generous”. The result has been a gridlock that has affected the negotiations as a whole....
...I’m a teetotal vegetarian when I arrive in Argentina. A week later — well, let’s just say I’m less so....
...“The Pacific Alliance is the result of deals already happening rather than making them happen”, says Jaime Trujillo, the head of Baker & McKenzie’s Latin America M&A practice....
...We’ve also done one for [tech company] Nvidia in the shape of its latest chip design in a barley field in Salinas, California....
...Pulled from a burning Porsche 550 Spyder on the road to Salinas, with his chest and forehead caved in, his hair shaved back at the temples to make him look like a raddled old drunk for the final scenes in...
...Having celebrated at the weekend his first 100 days in power with a claim that “I’m here to transform the country, not simply run it”, on Monday Peña Nieto unveiled a plan to reform telecommunications, a...
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