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...In a virtual news conference soon after starting her job in January, she referred to her female under-secretary, Luz María de la Mora, by her first name, and the diminutive “LuzMa”....
...There is a politicisation of justice,” said María Amparo Casar, executive president of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, an NGO....
...“Mexico and Mexico City are still seen as ripe for investment and growth,” says Santiago Gil of Paladin Realty, a property investment fund focused on Latin America....
...Hotel de la Reconquista, Gil de Jaz 16, 33004 (+34985-241 100; eurostarshoteldelareconquista.com) An object I would never part with is my iPad....
...By 2010, the club owed €452m, calculated José María Gay de Liébana, economist at the University of Barcelona. Nearly half of that was unpaid taxes....
...In 1979, Graciela Iturbide shot a gently surrealistic, black-and-white photo essay on the women of Juchitán, Mexico, that would have delighted Cartier-Bresson....
...“A contemptible being has left this world,” said Estela de Carlotto, head of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which has so far identified 108 grandchildren. “This was an evil man.”...
...A silver-and-pearl needle case, circa 1900, belonged to the Argentine socialite María Luisa Unzué de Aldao and was purchased in New York for £27,000....
...Last week, health minister Graciela Ocana resigned, allegedly due to her frustration at not being able to introduce nationwide prevention measures earlier....
...& Bess programme (conducted by Maria Schneider)....
...Belatedly, the place has been turned into a memorial, but the original name survives on the front of the building: Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada – the ESMA....
...By the early 1870s, Antonio Gil was working as a farmhand on a ranch in Corrientes owned by Colonel Juan de la Cruz. Some say that Gil angered De la Cruz by falling in love with the colonel’s daughter....
...On one occasion, crossing the 9 de Julio to the Avenida de Mayo, we ended up at a café that was nearly empty and seemed on the verge of closing. Coffee and brandies came and went....
...It is a British bugbear and veterans recall that, at the EU summit in Cardiff in 1998, Blair tackled the then-speaker of the parliament, José María Gil Robles, for dragging his feet on the issue....
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