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...Huezo is part of a rising new generation of Mexican women filmmakers, including Lila Avilés (recent art-house hit The Chambermaid), Diana Cardozo, Yolanda Cruz and Ángeles Cruz (no relation), whose triptych...
...“If anyone in the Biden administration had any hope that Bukele was somehow committed to democratic rule,” tweeted José Miguel Cruz, a political analyst, “he is not. He never was.”...
...He is always invoking the military, always speaking for the military,” says Raul Jungmann, a veteran centre-left politician who was defence minister in the previous government of Michel Temer....
...“The fires are having a strong negative effect for Evo Morales,” said Raúl Peñaranda, a columnist and founder of the critical newspaper Página Siete....
...The US really doesn’t have to do much,” says Raul Gallegos, a Venezuela analyst at Control Risks....
...The White House said Mr Obama would meet Raúl Castro during his visit and would also speak with “members of civil society and entrepreneurs”....
...In April, he held his first proper meeting with Cuba’s President Raúl Castro at a summit in Panama....
...Jeb Bush, who is expected to run for the White House, and Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican presidential hopeful whose father was born in Cuba, both criticised the move by Mr Obama....
...The curtain will drop after Celia Cruz’s “Yo Viveré”, a cover version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I will Survive”, while the encore is “Adiós”, a poppy salsa number....
...The Vatican has limited his stay at high altitude to about six hours, before he heads to the much less elevated city of Santa Cruz, but this could still be a big worry....
...Instead of extracting “significant concessions” from Cuba in exchange for rapprochement, Mr Cruz thundered....
...But the future would be far less clear under a Republican president, and cetainly the rhetoric from Ted Cruz sounds quintessentially hardline-Republican. The situation in Cuba is more complex....
...Several leading Cuban-American politicians denounced Mr Obama’s decision, including potential Republican presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Democrat Robert Menendez....
...While many Tea Party-backed Republicans, especially Ted Cruz of Texas and Utah’s Mike Lee, oppose the bill, they are considered unlikely to amass the 40 votes needed to stop the cloture vote today....
...Lifting the country’s 21m extreme poor out of poverty could boost GDP by as much as 9 per cent, said Raúl Feliz, an economist at Mexico’s CIDE think tank....
...Raúl Castro, president, has insisted that Cuba’s Soviet-style command economy needs fixing....
...Raul Prada Alcoreza, a member of Mr Morales’s political group, gave warning that a failure to solve the crisis might lead to “the brink of a civil war”....
...Leftwingers were divided though and it now seems as if their leading candidate, Raul Pont, will be unable to secure sufficient unity to overturn the reign of the Majority Camp....
...Raul Gonzales, a staunch political ally of Mrs Macapagal, was appointed justice secretary, replacing veteran department insider Merceditas Gutierrez....
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