Hints and tips:
...On Monday morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed the current unrest on “mediocre politicians and social media terrorists organised from South Florida”, where many Cuban exiles live....
...Miguel Faria e Castro and Fernando Leibovici have used Google’s large language model PaLM to produce retrospective inflation forecasts for 2019-23, and compared them to the predictions of the Philly Fed’...
...slashing clouds in José Gutiérrez Solana’s “Mariners of Castro Urdiales” (1915-17)....
...José Miguel Vivanco, who is stepping down as head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division after 28 years, said the Trump phenomenon “has provided ammunition and inspiration for the wrong side in Latin...
...Despite the problems, political change in Cuba 63 years after the revolution that brought the Castro brothers to power seems unlikely....
...The Castro era in Cuba came to a carefully choreographed end on Monday, as President Miguel Díaz-Canel was elected head of the ruling Communist party, replacing the retiring leader, 89-year-old Raúl Castro...
...The Cuban regime is facing the biggest threat to its authority in decades, just four months after President Miguel Díaz-Canel consolidated his power on the communist-run island....
...It fell to Miguel Díaz-Canel, a party bureaucrat lacking any revolutionary pedigree, to respond. Looking rattled, the president initially made a blood-curdling call to arms....
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, the uncharismatic post-Castro leader, was quick to call for “revolutionaries” to take to the streets and face down the protesters....
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
...President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Castro’s 60-year-old protégé, is expected to take his place, concluding a lengthy transition from revolutionary veterans to the generation born after 1959....
...Plus, Miguel Diaz-Canel has been confirmed as the new head of Cuba’s Communist party. The FT’s Latin America editor, Michael Stott, discusses the island’s future in the post-Castro era....
...He was also fired up by Fidel Castro’s success in Cuba. Feudalistic Peru in the 1960s was a cauldron of Marxism. Peasant uprisings began to erupt....
...There has been no discernible glasnost in the island’s politics from Miguel Díaz-Canel, Castro’s anointed successor, to accompany the perestroika of the economic reforms....
...Without a Castro in power for the first time since the 1959 communist revolution, it fell to President Miguel Díaz-Canel, a stodgy party technocrat, to answer thousands of Cubans who thronged the streets...
...There has been a “big change in direction”, chief executive Miguel Patricio told DD’s James Fontanella-Khan and the FT’s Judith Evans....
...“You can easily see why CPI was a poor measure of inflation during the pandemic recession,” said Miguel Faria e Castro, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis....
...Portugal’s interior minister Miguel Macedo resigned three days later. Both were later acquitted....
...The peso, which has been artificially set at parity with the US dollar for decades, will be valued at 24 pesos to the dollar from January 1, Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel announced late on Thursday....
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban president, did not congratulate Mr Biden or mention his name in public after the US election....
...It is one of communist Cuba’s most hallowed slogans, deployed by Fidel Castro in the 1959 revolution and repeated countless times since: “Patria o Muerte” — Fatherland or Death....
...In it, he hurled angry insults at the officer, cursed Communist party leader Raúl Castro and proclaimed support for US president Donald Trump....
...President Miguel Díaz-Canel then appeared at a youth rally supporting the government where he evoked Fidel Castro’s famous statement to intellectuals in 1961, “within the Revolution everything, outside the...
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, announced last month that he was scrapping a dual currency system and bringing in a wave of economic reforms because of the crisis....
...Miguel Patricio, the chief executive selected two years ago by 3G, said: “What we concluded is that we need to grow organically, and that is the most sustainable way of keeping the company growing....
International Edition