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...Orlando, who runs a café in Havana, said the regime “needed to let go” and help people such as himself....
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...Jocsan Avilés Díaz comes from a town called El Progreso — progress — but for him, it was anything but. Unemployment drove him out of Honduras in 2019, bound for the US....
...Italian trade unions and centre-left parties, with labour minister Andrea Orlando of the Democratic party at the forefront, had hoped to extend the ban for a few more months, pending a long-delayed welfare...
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban president, visited Moscow in October for the second time since his inauguration 18 months ago and Mr Putin promised him a return visit to Cuba soon....
...“The parallel exchange rate reflects the total loss of confidence in Maduro’s government,” wrote independent economist Orlando Ochoa. Now prices in certain stores can change daily....
...Even the one Trump-backing congressman in South Florida, Mario Diaz-Balart, won’t mention Trump’s name; he euphemistically calls him “the nominee”....
...He is set to step down in 2018 and be replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, the civilian vice-president. But dissidents warn Alejandro will remain the power behind the throne for time to come....
...Review by Orlando Bird … Bonkers: My Life in Laughs, by Jennifer Saunders, Viking £20, 304 pages Jennifer Saunders’ new memoir reads like a series of comedy sketches....
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