Word: vanguardia
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...this last element that attracted attention across the country. "Masturbation Workshops for Adolescents," ran the headline in Que!, a free daily in Madrid. "Extremadura Promotes Masturbation," cried the centrist national paper El Mundo. Criticizing the spending as frivolous, especially during a recession, the Catalan paper La Vanguardia sniped, "Extremadura's youth may have the highest rates of unemployment, but they'll be the best masturbators...
...Ram?rez, que naci? hace 50 a?os en Puerto Rico, fue nombrada la primera directora del Centro Internacional del Arte de las Am?ricas, ubicado en el Museo de Bellas Artes, Houston, TX. El centro se dedica no s?lo ha coleccionar y exhibir las obras de la vanguardia latinoamericana sino tambi?n a apoyar la investigaci?n y ense?anza para aclarar que tal arte va m?s all? del surrealismo folkl?rico de Frida Kahlo o los campesinos de Diego Rivera...
...most recently in September; the $2.5 million damage tally included destruction of the computer system and presses. Yet El Espectador has not missed a day of publication and has kept up the drumbeat against the cartels. Even harder hit was the country's second oldest newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does not tolerate opposition...
...World, an untranslated novel of a 19th century peasant uprising in Brazil, is currently a bestseller in Spain and South America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona's La Vanguardia. Once a supporter of Castro's Cuba, Vargas Llosa now campaigns against totalitarian regimes of the left and the right. He is a backer of Poland's Solidarity movement and a former president of the P.E.N. club, the international writers' organization that monitors the restriction of free expression. This is the stuff...
...wanted a coalition government. Imbert was ready with his own version. After huddling with representatives of six parties, ranging from the far-right Vanguardia to the middle-of-the-road Christian Democrats, he announced a "broad-based provisional legislative assembly" composed of appointees from each party as well as delegates from labor, business, the professions, and farmers. Declared Imbert: "This solution should be preferred over formulas brought in by airplane...