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...The country’s entry for the 2023 Oscars, the unapologetically accessible The Blue Caftan is something of a high-class tear-jerker, but of a mature, insightful kind....
...The backdrop is Jnane Tamsna, a hotel in Marrakech’s Palmeraie oasis, with candlelit group dinners and trips to the 11th-century Medina....
...Mirna Medina Quiñonez, the group’s leader, hits a bone with her spade....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was just the other week, when I shipped a box to my parents in Belgium that was full of local products from the souk in the medina....
...Just outside the medina, between a crusader citadel and the sea, is what appears to be the ruins of a space-age colony....
...Lari’s favourite — “because it looks like an Oscar” — is for “outstanding achievement in sports” at last year’s Young Arab Awards....
...… Talent drain For Henry Medina, a retired major general and former head of Colombia’s Superior School of War, this is “bleeding” the country of its best men....
...After replacing his prime minister, Salomon Lerner, with Oscar Valdés in a major cabinet reshuffle, his approval rating jumped to 59 per cent in February....
...Trailing are candidates such as right-of centre Ms Machado, 44, and former union leader Pablo Medina, 64....
...Oscar Aguad, leader of the Radicals in the lower house, says they will present proposals on Monday or Tuesday to scrap the government’s sliding scale of export tariffs and turn the clock back....
...“Elections are not a solution to the problems facing Bolivia,” says Oscar Olivera, a factory workers’ leader in Cochabamba and a central figure in the social movements that are clamouring for change....
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