Hints and tips:
...“Look at how the US and UK absolutely support the one-party state of Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. “Inside the country no one can tell the difference between the US position and the Chinese.”...
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...Héctor Vasconcelos, president of Mexico’s Senate foreign relations committee and a close adviser to populist leftwing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denied Mexico was holding up the trade agreement...
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...US....
...US president Joe Biden travels to Mexico City for a North American leaders summit with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau....
...People have died, Mexican and foreign, and that can’t happen again,” Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said in November....
...“Tomorrow they’re going to inform us about this issue,” the president said. López Obrador said Mexico would follow any WHO guidelines on the safety of the jab....
...receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...On Friday night, Mr López Obrador spoke by telephone with US president Joe Biden and posted a photograph to Twitter of himself around a table with Marcelo Ebrard, foreign minister, and former cabinet chief...
...So far, 16.7m vaccine doses have been administered with 10.7m people having received their full course of treatment, said Hugo López-Gatell, health undersecretary....
...Of those received, 5.7m were the BioNTech/Pfizer jab; 3.6m were AstraZeneca; 4m were Sinovac of China and 900,000 were Russia’s Sputnik V, coronavirus tsar Hugo López-Gatell told the news conference....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Get in touch with us anytime: Due.Diligence@ft.com. Will Spacs ever lose their sparkle?...
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that the economy has now touched bottom. “The worst is behind us. Our strategy has worked....
...Mr López Obrador this week blasted the IDB-funded $12bn loan scheme for small and midsized firms, saying: “I didn’t much like the way they got together and want to impose their plans on us.”...
...Rex Sinquefield, aims to match them. 2355 Nana Dzagnidze v Ju Wenjun, Cairns Cup, St Louis 2020....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...Mr Trumka said on Thursday that he “wants to get to yes” on the Nafta successor, but planned to head to Mexico next week to meet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss his concerns that Mexico...
...UPSCALE: Buyers reach out to us....
...Sterling would crash (it was 1.50 to the USD before Sunderland reported on referendum night v 1.30 today, so surely we could survive a short-term move to 1.10?)....
...The US economy is partly to blame here. As close trading partners, Mexico's growth tends to fluctuate with that of the US....
...“We are used to V-shaped recessions in Turkey but with the policy options as they are, we don’t see any chance of a swift recovery.”...
...Mr López Obrador had previously named veteran diplomat Héctor Vasconcelos for the post, but announced the change after Mr Vasconcelos won a senate seat....
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