Hints and tips:
...US officials temporarily closed the San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana on Sunday to install barriers and concertina wire....
...Javier Valdez, an award-winning reporter on cartel crime in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, was the latest journalist to be shot dead this year....
...Rivera Velazquez, 37 Luis Daniel Conde, 39 Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25...
...“It is hard not to associate good quality coffee with the name and the image of Juan Valdez,” says Mr Méndez....
...Juan Valdéz, the moustached embodiment for Colombia’s coffee industry (along with his loyal donkey), may be grinning from the sidelines....
...His death sparked several bloody power struggles, including with former ally Edgar Valdez Villarreal, who is also now in jail....
...Appreciation is also harshly affecting some non-commodity exporters, such as those of flower, banana and, more worrying in the land of Juan Valdéz, coffee....
...“Here people assume that by 2018 or 2020 the mines will have disappeared,” says Angel Valdez Puente, a 59-year-old former miner nursing a glass of red wine in a bar....
...With his embroidered black and white poncho slung over one shoulder, the grizzled coffee farmer is the embodiment of Juan Valdez, the fictional frontman for Colombia’s coffee industry advertisements since...
...Five food and drink brands from emerging markets are tipped to become global brands: Juan Valdez Café, a Colombian coffee chain; Almarai, a Saudi dairy and fruit-juice company; Patchi, a Lebanese boutique...
...They comprise Juan Valdez Café, a Colombian coffee chain; Almarai, a Saudi dairy and fruit-juice company based in Riyadh; Patchi, a Lebanese boutique chocolate chain; ChangYu, China’s biggest wine producer...
...Ultimately, Colombian emeralds, which account for about 60 per cent of world supply, could become as well known as the country’s coffee, made famous by Juan Valdez....
...Valdez coffee shop (Colombia’s home-grown answer to Starbucks) and what might be the capital’s best-stocked bookshop....
...Java jolt Juan Valdez has made quite a comeback. The iconic campesino and his mule have been the face of Colombian coffee for half a century....
...A Juan Valdez coffee house offers a welcome alternative to Starbucks. “Downtown was desolate, certainly after 5pm,” says Horsley....
...We must not forget the past,” says Patricia Valdez, executive director for Memoria Abierta, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that, through memory, that episode of Argentina’s history is never repeated...
International Edition