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...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is ricotta salata cheese from Porto Bello restaurant in Salina....
...Within hours of the announcement Ricardo Salinas, a prominent Mexican billionaire with interests in banking and television, expressed interest....
...Even allowing for the vagaries of the heart, his obsession resembles more that of an unsophisticated 20-year-old than a middle-aged Sicilian aristocrat in the mould of Lampedusa’s Prince Fabrizio Salina....
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...In Mexico, Ricardo Salinas, the country’s third-richest man, said he holds 10 per cent of his liquid portfolio in bitcoin....
...I worked with [Carlos] Salinas and [Ernesto] Zedillo,” says Patricia Armendáriz, a businesswoman close to López Obrador, referring to two of his 1990s predecessors. “But we failed . . ....
...FT Weekend summer tech booksTo extend your reading, John Thornhill has a selection of novels and non-fiction on tech, from Agency by William Gibson to Michael Wooldridge’s The Road to Conscious Machines....
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang in Beijing and Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Nine properties are available on Sicily and nearby islands, including Capo Faro lighthouse on Salina, the setting for the 1994 Michael Radford film Il Postino....
...“This brings Mexico into South America – that’s the extent of its importance,” says Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank....
...But in a recent interview with the FT, Mr Salinas Pliego admitted that philanthropy in Mexico was not easy....
...But I was not cut out to flog fine and rare wines in a smart suit to aristocrats: as my boss at Christie’s wine department, Michael Broadbent, quite accurately put it, “You’re a talented wine taster but...
...To run BBC Radio 4 is to learn the art of doing what the Prince of Salina, hero of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard, famously said was the dominant necessity for Sicilian life: everything...
...In another security issue, Mr Fox said there was no apparent political connection in the death of Enrique Salinas, brother of former president Carlos Salinas, found murdered on Monday....
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