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...Young women take some of the starring roles — most notably the extravagantly talented Iciar Pérez, chef at the Hotel Santa Catalina’s in-house restaurant Poemas....
...But by casting a soprano as Montezuma and a baritone as Cortés and by fashioning a non-narrative libretto (from texts by Antonin Artaud and Octavio Paz) that is not time or space specific, Rihm produced...
...“Look at this,” Mr Pérez says jumping out of his office chair....
...“This street, Andrés Pérez, was actually quite dangerous, somewhere you would avoid, but look at all the development going on now,” said Garrido....
...As the Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude in 1950: “It is now difficult to distinguish the Spanish from the Indian.”...
...The Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz, for example, wrote trenchantly of “the thread of continuity between the ancient society and the Spanish order: that of domination”....
...Miguel Octavio, a stockbroker in Caracas who formerly worked as a researcher at Venezuela's scientific research institute, said Venezuela had few nuclear physicists to develop atomic energy....
...Mexicans' conflicted sense of self-worth, according to several advertising executives, can be said to go back to La Malinche, the native Mexican translator of the conquistador Hernán Cortés....
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