Raul Salas-Gonzalez

Climate change increases chances of zoonotic disease ‘spillover’

...Raúl Rivas-González, a microbiologist at the University of Salamanca in Spain, says the virus, part of the orthopox family, was discovered in 2015 and “the evidence so far indicates that it is present in...

April 29, 2024

Film

The latest wave of Mexican cinema

...“Raúl Briones says in his video diary that he sees a policeman and he doesn’t feel safe — the first thing you feel is distance, lack of trust, even fear....

October 27, 2021

FT Live

Brazil Summit

Building a resilient and sustainable economy

Cuba

Exit of Cuba’s last Castro brings curtain down on revolutionary era

...“I don’t think I’ve ever seen things as bad as they are now,” said Anaida González, a retired nursing professor in central Camagüey province....

April 9, 2021

Americas politics & policy

Artists and activists stage rare rights protest in Cuba

...In it, he hurled angry insults at the officer, cursed Communist party leader Raúl Castro and proclaimed support for US president Donald Trump....

November 28, 2020

Mexico

Mexico’s drug cartel chief ‘El Mencho’ shows his might

...Even so, the government was “surprised by the cartel’s demonstration of strength” in the videos, according to Raúl Benítez-Manaut, a professor at Mexico’s UNAM university and expert on security....

July 29, 2020

Cuba

Cuba faces blackouts as US sanctions hit fuel supplies

...“Things could get better or worse,” said retired nurse Anaida González, speaking from central Camagüey province in a phone interview....

September 12, 2019

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

FT SeriesFrieze Week 2019

The art behind Cuban propaganda

...Some, including René Portocarrero and Raúl Martínez González, were artists with well-established careers. At its peak, the organisation employed around 20 illustrators, mostly men....

September 26, 2019

News in-depthThe Big Read

Colombia: ‘Leave the rifles behind’

...“In historical terms, this is comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall,” enthuses Felipe González, Spain’s former prime minister who, in his day, struggled with Basque terrorists....

September 27, 2016

The Big ReadJohn Paul Rathbone

Latin American elections: a year of living dangerously lies ahead

...“I tend to think that the anti-corruption drive shows the region’s democratic strengths,” says Alejandro Salas, regional director of corruption watchdog Transparency International....

February 7, 2018

Trump crackdown has US Latinos too scared to spend

...“All these people talking about law and order will give more power to the criminal elements,” says Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles....

May 21, 2017

Life & Arts

A weekend on the tiles in Seville

...When his job is done, González takes it through to the painting room....

April 8, 2016

US politics & policy

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán faces extradition to US

...Mexico will proceed carefully, but Raúl Benítez-Manaut, a security analyst, predicted that when all legal aspects had been resolved, he would be spirited away “without telling anyone”....

January 10, 2016

News in-depthPerson in the News

Raúl Castro, Cuba’s president

...Last week, Raúl Castro launched into a long speech against the US....

April 17, 2015

News in-depthThe Big Read

Cuba: Showtime in Havana

...This month alone, Raúl Castro, Cuba’s 83-year-old president, has met Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president; Pope Francis; Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister; and François Hollande, the first French head of...

May 21, 2015

US politics & policy

US and Cuba hold highest level meeting in over 50 years

...US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro are attending the summit and, although no formal talks are scheduled, are expected to meet on the sidelines of the summit in the coming days....

April 10, 2015

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Capital markets

Latin America: Corporate bond trade requires time to mature

...“We’ve seen Treasury yields dip back below 2.5 per cent after the Fed’s decision,” says Mr González....

November 17, 2013

News in-depthThe Big Read

Man in the News: Raúl Castro

...Their father, Angel, a Spanish immigrant, was a wealthy landowner; their mother, Lina Ruz González, was a scullery maid who became Angel’s second wife. Both attended prestigious Jesuit-run schools....

September 17, 2010

Commodities

Cuba worries as sugar industry dissolves

...His deputy, González Orlando Celso, is destined to be the island’s last such minister. “Sugar cane is part of Cuba’s patrimony . . ....

May 18, 2010

Life & Arts

Make a stand

...Progetti’s Spider, designed by Alberto Sala, with its geometrically angled, painted steel rods and triangular base, also displayed this approach....

May 14, 2010

World

Cuba slow to ease grip on shopkeepers

...Raúl Castro, president, has insisted that Cuba’s Soviet-style command economy needs fixing....

February 9, 2010

Jancis Robinson

Summer wine special

...winemaker Raúl Peréz has a great reputation....

June 25, 2010

Americas economy

Cuba forced to rethink system of paternalism

...Wages and pensions are too low to eliminate everything if they do not take other measures,” Julián González, a public works employee, said, expressing widespread anxiety over the elimination of the food...

September 17, 2009

World

Marcos and her gems to be reunited

...Raul Gonzalez, justice secretary, said that the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which aims to recover about $10bn of the allegedly ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos, the late dictator, and...

June 15, 2009

Global Economy

Mexico and US meet to avert trade dispute

...Mr Gonzalez’s fears are shared by the vast majority of Mexicans, who in general believe that Nafta has brought huge benefits over the years....

March 17, 2009

World

Peruvians try to maintain ‘water bank’ flow

...Far from the decisionmakers in Lima, Victor Raul Salas, a sprightly man in a formal shirt and trousers, is head of one of the communities that draw their water direct from the reserve....

April 13, 2009

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