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...A third broker, JLT, now a division of insurance broking giant Marsh McLennan, stumped up $29mn and was issued a so-called declination relating to bribes paid by an intermediary to Seguros Sucre....
...But the best comparison is the little-known Sucre (a Spanish acronym standing for “Unified System for Regional Compensation”), which was initially proposed by Cuba to facilitate the cross-border trade between...
...It’s about 20 minutes by car to Jerez airport, which serves destinations in Europe....
...Theatre director Alan Lyddiard, who divides his time between Jerez in southern Spain and Leeds’ South Bank, loves both the Leeds Playhouse — where he’s an associate artist — and the council’s neighbourhood...
...There’s also Atelier Sucré in Manhattan, which hosts virtual and IRL sessions centred on formerly out-of-reach delicacies – the French macaron class is a bestseller....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley Letters in response to this article: Argentina and Brazil should heed fate of the Bolivarian ‘sucre’ / From Thierry Larose, Portfolio Manager, Vontobel, Zurich...
...They also no longer use white sugar, preferring what the French call sucre roux, unrefined brown sugar, and using “a lot less than we once did,” stresses Dolfi....
...The rolling plans of the south, where Extremadura bumps up against Andalucía, have something of that region’s smiling charm, with a dazzle of whitewash in pretty towns such as Jerez de los Caballeros and...
...The grape harvest in Jérez began on July 28, the earliest in the region’s history. Already, desertification affects about a fifth of Spain’s land....
...But even its 160-year lifespan seems fleeting when compared with the 1728 Vino Pancho Romano I discovered at Bodegas González Byass in Jerez de Frontera recently....
...Jerez had come as a surprise to me....
...It became popular in the 1920s when Antonio Chacón, an acclaimed flamenco singer from Jerez, began to host shows here, bringing with him an entourage of fellow artists and fans....
...Ricardo Sucre, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela, said events in the state “reinforce the image that this is not a trustworthy government”....
...The La Paz-based collective Proyecto Nativa (which is behind the celebrated restaurant of the same name in the city of Sucre) ensures the food experience here matches everything else....
...For his latest venture, Trocca is directing his audience to Soho, to a brand-new outpost of his Buenos Aires-based restaurant Sucre....
...Or how about Viso, discovered in the kitchen of a small finca between Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera? (I love the way the natural pigments in these tiles have faded and aged.)...
...Ecuador’s national currency, the sucre, was replaced with the dollar in January 2000 in a bid to regulate runaway inflation and stabilise the country’s economy....
...SHERRY Lustau Dry Oloroso 20% Crazy price for a 12-year-old single-vineyard, hugely appetising wine. Will someone please put Jerez out of its stock surplus and restore prices to what they should be?...
...Andrónico Rodríguez, a young Bolivian indigenous leader, hops hurriedly into a car with tinted windows outside the city of Sucre. “We have to be careful, everything is tense,” he said....
...During their first dance, in the Colombian town of Sucre, 13-year-old Mercedes Barcha told Gabriel García Márquez: “My papa says that the prince who will marry me hasn’t been born yet.”...
...The GI protections cover more than 3,000 products ranging from feta cheese to Vinagre de Jerez sherry vinegar, meaning that imitations with the same name cannot be sold in the EU single market....
...Another yet-to-be-discovered wine style comes from less than 500km north-east of the sherry capital Jerez....
...They were swiftly joined by anti-Morales protesters cheering the “police mutiny,” which rapidly spread to Sucre, Santa Cruz, Potosí and Oruro....
...Violence broke out in several Bolivian cities on Monday evening, with reports of protesters setting fire to electoral authority offices in Sucre and Potosí, and burning ballot boxes in Tarija....
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