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El director y los actores de ‘Cien años de soledad’ se entregaron por completo a esta arriesgada adaptación
1 week, 4 days ago

El director y los actores de ‘Cien años de soledad’ se entregaron por completo a esta arriesgada adaptación

LA Times  

No estamos hablando de una versión cualquiera, sino de la que se ha hecho sobre la base de “Cien años de soledad”, que no es solo una de las novelas más celebradas de la literatura latinoamericana, sino una obra cuyo renombrado autor se rehusó a ofrecer para cualquier tipo de adaptación cinematográfica. Anuncio Haberlo logrado no puede haber sido fácil, …

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Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador’s Cecot prison
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador’s Cecot prison

CNN  

Tecoluca, El Salvador CNN — Sunlight pours into the cavernous building. This is Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center — and the men are known as the “worst of the worst.” Mass murderers, drug dealers and gangsters, they are accused of once holding El Salvador hostage, gripping the nation with fear as they ruled cities and streets. We don’t …

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‘The sandwich’ at Roma Market is perfect. Why I mess with it anyway
2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘The sandwich’ at Roma Market is perfect. Why I mess with it anyway

LA Times  

Roma Market in Pasadena is known for “the sandwich,” seen here doctored with fresh mozzarella, basil and red cherry peppers bought at the Italian market. But I’ve acquired a habit of taking his wildly popular deli creation known simply as “the sandwich” and adding fresh mozzarella, sweet red cherry peppers, some strategically placed basil leaves and an extra drizzle of …

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Salmonella outbreak at popular L.A. Oaxacan restaurant sickens 44
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Salmonella outbreak at popular L.A. Oaxacan restaurant sickens 44

LA Times  

The dining room at Madre Oaxacan Restaurant in Santa Clarita. The lawsuit aimed at Madre Oaxacan Restaurant in the Valencia area comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health shut down the restaurant on Sept. 18 following a salmonella outbreak that sickened about 44 people. “We take responsibility for what happened with the outbreak.” Vásquez said he called …

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Padres Hit 3 HRs in Thriller, Clinch 5-0 Win Over D-Backs
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Padres Hit 3 HRs in Thriller, Clinch 5-0 Win Over D-Backs

Associated Press  

The San Diego Padres defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 in a crucial game in the National League playoff race. Kyle Higashioka, Brandon Lockridge, and Donovan Solano hit home runs in the ninth inning, securing the win for the Padres. Despite giving up one run over 27 innings, the Diamondbacks fought valiantly but fell short of securing a playoff spot.

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Busch hits game-ending HR, Bellinger goes deep in return as Cubs beat Padres 3-2
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Busch hits game-ending HR, Bellinger goes deep in return as Cubs beat Padres 3-2

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Michael Busch led off the ninth inning with a game-ending home run, Cody Bellinger went deep in his return from broken ribs and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 3-2 on Tuesday night. The Cubs tied it in the bottom half when Mike Tauchman walked leading off against Yuki Matsui, took third on Bellinger’s single and …

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Panama Canal traffic cut by more than a third because of drought
11 months ago

Panama Canal traffic cut by more than a third because of drought

Associated Press  

PANAMA CITY — A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes. Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez now estimates that dipping water levels could cost them between $500 million and $700 million in 2024, compared to previous estimates of $200 million. …

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A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal, disrupting global trade
11 months ago

A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal, disrupting global trade

The Independent  

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Drop in Panama Canal traffic because of severe drought could cost up to $700 million
11 months ago

Drop in Panama Canal traffic because of severe drought could cost up to $700 million

LA Times  

Severe drought has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal. A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes. On Wednesday, Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez said authorities would cut daily ship crossings to 24, after …

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Colombian president’s son ‘won’t last’ in jail, defence lawyer warns
1 year, 4 months ago

Colombian president’s son ‘won’t last’ in jail, defence lawyer warns

Al Jazeera  

Both the prosecution and defence in the case of Nicolas Petro have requested house arrest while the investigation proceeds. The accusations first emerged in an interview that Nicolás Petro’s ex-wife, Daysuris “Day” Vásquez, had with the news magazine Semana in March. She accused the younger Petro of accepting donations for his father’s presidential campaign from people with “a dark past”. …

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Son of Colombia’s president is charged with money laundering
1 year, 4 months ago

Son of Colombia’s president is charged with money laundering

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — The son of Colombia’s president was charged Tuesday with money laundering and illicit enrichment at a hearing where prosecutors said he took thousands of dollars from drug traffickers and used it to buy luxurious homes and expensive cars. Nicolás Petro, 36, pleaded innocent to the charges, which have raised questions about the financing of President Gustavo Petro’s …

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Accusations against relatives a blow to Colombian president
1 year, 9 months ago

Accusations against relatives a blow to Colombian president

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked prosecutors to investigate accusations against his brother and one of his sons that could deal a blow to his presidency and undermine his plans for peace and to fight corruption. Petro, a former guerrilla who was elected as Colombia’s first leftist president last year, has promised to battle endemic corruption and …

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How ‘crunch’ time and low pay are fueling a union drive among video game workers
1 year, 10 months ago

How ‘crunch’ time and low pay are fueling a union drive among video game workers

LA Times  

Some 3.6 billion people are expected to play video games globally by 2025. “People are sort of waking up to the idea that they are, in fact, entitled to predictable work schedules, healthcare, fair compensation and equitable treatment,” says Joost van Dreunen, a games industry analyst and the author of “One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video …

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Honduras ex-President Lobo's son killed in attack
2 years, 5 months ago

Honduras ex-President Lobo's son killed in attack

Daily Mail  

The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo and three other young men were executed allegedly by gunmen with the MS-13 early Thursday after they left a nightclub in the country's capital. Said Lobo Bonilla, whose father Porfirio Lobo was president of Honduras, was shot dead execution style with three friends after they left a nightclub in Tegucigalpa on Thursday …

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Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives
2 years, 5 months ago

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS, Honduras — Children set out hoping to earn enough to support their siblings and parents. “You think that when people have a higher level of education, they have to get more employment opportunities,” said Karen Caballero, the brothers’ mother. The boys had grown up friends and did everything together: playing, going out, even planning to go to the …

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Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio
2 years, 5 months ago

Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state. Flores López is now missing, his family said, while Vásquez Guzmán is hospitalized …

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Salvadoran women jailed for abortion warn US of total ban
2 years, 6 months ago

Salvadoran women jailed for abortion warn US of total ban

The Independent  

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Priest slain in Honduras may be 1st in nearly half a century
2 years, 9 months ago

Priest slain in Honduras may be 1st in nearly half a century

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Relatives, parishioners and fellow priests on Friday mourned the Rev. José Enrique Vásquez, who was abducted, shot dead and dumped on a bridge in northern Honduras — apparently the first such slaying in almost half a century. Juan Ángel López, spokesman for Honduras’ Episcopal Conference, said he could not think of another time a Honduran priest was …

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Peru: 21 beaches polluted by spill linked to Tonga eruption
2 years, 11 months ago

Peru: 21 beaches polluted by spill linked to Tonga eruption

The Hindu  

Peru has declared an environmental emergency after announcing that 21 beaches on the Pacific coast were contaminated by an oil spill at a refinery run by Spain-based Repsol, following surging waves caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga. Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez said Repsol has promised to deliver a cleaning schedule, to incorporate local fishermen in the …

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Meet The Guatemalan Woman Who's The 'Guardian Angel' Of Zacapa Rum
3 years, 3 months ago

Meet The Guatemalan Woman Who's The 'Guardian Angel' Of Zacapa Rum

Huff Post  

Zacapa Rum/HuffPost In 1979, at the beginning of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Lorena Vásquez moved from her hometown of San Marcos, Nicaragua, to Guatemala with her then-husband. In September 1984, she started working at Zacapa Rum, in quality control; she was later promoted and became the distillery’s and the country’s first female master blender. Guatemala isn’t typically known for its rum …

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Mourning daughter, a Guatemalan couple find healing in dance
4 years, 2 months ago

Mourning daughter, a Guatemalan couple find healing in dance

Associated Press  

Jenifer Vásquez was 32 when she died of renal insufficiency in June, leaving behind grief-stricken parents already struggling with the isolation of the coronavirus lockdown in Guatemala. Then Fabio Rodolfo Vásquez heard about a dance contest organized on social media, “Covi Dance 2020.” The 50-year-old shoemaker thought it might be a good idea, but he had doubts. “I wanted us …

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