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...Despite the problems, political change in Cuba 63 years after the revolution that brought the Castro brothers to power seems unlikely....
...In a class-action lawsuit, the migrants say they were lured from shelters in San Antonio, Texas with food vouchers and false promises of jobs, only to be abandoned on an island in the dark....
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
...Letter in response to this report: US’s biggest problem in Cuba is not Putin / From Richard J Salvucci, San Antonio, TX, US...
...The 2017 documentary about influential fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez made for compelling viewing. Subtitled 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, it captured the era and his supercharged aesthetic with élan....
...The best gift I’ve received recently was an oil painting of a vase of peonies by Paul César Helleu....
...Cuba after the Castros: escaping a long shadow . . . or in fellow socialist Nicaragua either . . . Daniel Ortega’s last stand?...
...Candidates including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro adjusted their campaign schedules to join workers at McDonald’s protests across...
...Take Mexico’s new leftist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...He also had Antonio Palocci as finance minister. Although I hate to give Lula credit for anything . . . López Obrador does not sound as pragmatic as Lula . . ....
...“I would characterise Díaz-Canel as a non-liberal moderniser,” says Arturo Lopez-Levy, a former Cuban government intelligence analyst and now a lecturer at the University of Texas....
...He has a 23-point lead in the polls over Ricardo Anaya of the conservative PAN party, and a 30-point lead over Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling PRI....
...“History will judge those who . . . enabled him,” José Antonio Meade, 49, the PRI’s candidate, warned this week....
...Thirty years later, Mr Díaz-Canel was this week named as Raúl Castro’s replacement as Cuba’s president in a carefully managed succession from the Castro brothers’ rule....
...Nonetheless, he makes no secret of his admiration for the late Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro....
...Still, few believe there is a wholesale rejection of the left in Latin America, especially as leftist nationalist Andrés Manuel López Obrador looks set to be Mexico’s next president....
...In Mexico, Manuel López Obrador, a leftist nationalist who considers Fidel Castro a hero, looks set to sweep to the presidency on July 1....
...Mr López Obrador, who sees Fidel Castro as a “giant” like Nelson Mandela, is a former firebrand....
...Cuba proposed Miguel Díaz-Canel as the sole candidate to replace Raúl Castro as president on Wednesday, making him the first non-Castro to lead the socialist country since the 1959 revolution and marking...
...Leading the polls is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 64, a leftist patriarch and successful former mayor of Mexico City....
...Next on the calendar is Mexico, where maverick leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a nationalist who wants to stamp out corruption but believes that Fidel Castro was a hero, leads polls ahead of the July...
...Even Cuba will have a new head of state, whose surname will not be Castro....
...The front-runner is Amlo — Andrés Manuel López Obrador, twice narrowly defeated before, a former mayor of Mexico City and the champion of the left....
...Castro set to stand down Raúl Castro is due to step down as president of Cuba, the first time a Castro has not held the post since the start of the revolution almost 60 years ago....
...In Mexico, maverick populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador also praised Castro....
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