Hints and tips:
...It was the unlikely patronage of Nelson Rockefeller that launched his career, after the US politician acquired a number of his works and spread the word....
...In the 1960s Fidel Castro wore two at once. Those days are over. “The scarcity of our products is not a strategy on our part,” Rolex says....
...“As long as we stick together, we’ll definitely be out in the forefront,” says Castro, founder of the Castro NYC brand....
...He has also hobnobbed with a procession of leaders, including Nelson Mandela — who radiated “natural wisdom and authority” — and Fidel Castro, who kept him up till 3am in heated argument and then sent him...
...The president doesn’t even touch the local delicacy, getting lost instead in a story about how he angered Cuba’s Fidel Castro soon after winning his first election....
...Mr López Obrador, who sees Fidel Castro as a “giant” like Nelson Mandela, is a former firebrand....
...The largest, where Nelson Peltz sought a board seat at Procter & Gamble, went down to the wire in a vote earlier this month. In the end, Mr Peltz lost by a tiny margin....
...Unlike Nelson Mandela, he never stepped down to give others a chance. And in the past decade his brother Raúl has been left to try to make Fidel’s system work in the 21st century....
...“All of them have liabilities,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves, analyst with Eurasia Group....
...State funerals have often been good opportunities for high-level diplomacy and Castro’s is likely to attract a large number of heads of state, making it the biggest such event since the death of Nelson Mandela...
...Barbados, with its golf clubs, Anglican churches and statues of Lord Nelson, is disappointingly suburban and “Little England”-like for Jelly-Schapiro....
...For Mexico’s business and political establishment, Mr López Obrador — who says Fidel Castro was a giant of the stature of Nelson Mandela — is a terrifying prospect because of his opposition to the structural...
...This gives some hedging options for them,” Nelson Barbosa told the Financial Times in Davos. “There are not so many capital outflows from Brazil right now....
...If the odds start moving against her, Ms Rousseff could seek to interfere in central bank policies to please her base in the left, said João Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group....
...Mr Morales declared after his third poll victory: “This is the triumph of the anti-capitalists” and dedicated his win to Fidel Castro....
...After more than a decade on the rocky island off Cape Town, Nelson Mandela was working with “Mac” Maharaj on his clandestine autobiography....
...João Augusto de Castro Neves, analyst at Eurasia Group, called the infrastructure plan a “positive step”, particularly the efforts to reduce the dependency on the development bank....
...The president is due to talk with Mr Castro on the margins of a summit in Panama on Saturday, their first meeting apart from an awkward handshake at Nelson Mandela’s funeral in 2013....
...There was a song that we would take the country the Castro way, based on the banana boat song Belafonte used to sing....
...He also had to revise a story about his family fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba after it was pointed out that they came to the US before the revolution that brought Castro to power....
...Not everybody would have felt comfortable buying a house in apartheid South Africa or Castro’s Cuba....
...“It took time but at the end of the day she does have a sense of pragmatism,” said Joao Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group....
...Rumoured candidates for finance minister include senior minister Aloizio Mercadante, Nelson Barbosa, former finance secretary, and Luciano Coutinho, head of the BNDES development bank....
...The most credible rumoured candidates include former central bank governor Henrique Meirelles and former finance ministry official Nelson Barbosa....
...Examples include Barack Obama’s incidental handshake with Mr Castro at Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Last week, the State Department also noted the positive tone of recent Cuban-US talks....
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