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Everything to do with the USA's own Imperial Backyard. From hispanics to the originary peoples of the americas to the diasporas, South America to Central America, to the Caribbean to North America (yes, we're also there).

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Here's a handy resource to understand some of the many, many colloquialisms we like to use across the region.

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Añadí varios de Brasil que suenan bien pero que nunca escuché ni les logro cazar el portugués, si resulta que son malos, me avisan.

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In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates.

Right-wing Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and progressive Luisa González clinched first and second place in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential elections, winning a combined 88% of the valid votes. The two candidates will dispute the Presidency of the Republic on April 13.

According to data from the National Electoral Council, so far, right-wing President Daniel Noboa of the National Democratic Action (ADN) party won 44.29% of the valid votes, while Luisa González, of the Correist Citizen Revolution party, obtained 43.85%. This means that there is more or less a difference of 42,000 votes between the top two candidates out of the more than 10 million people who voted. In third place is the Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza with 5.26% of the Pachakutik party and in fourth place is the right-wing candidate Andrea González with 2.71%. The remaining twelve candidates obtained, individually, less than 1%. Between them, they add up to only 3.89%.

The last time a candidate obtained such a high first-round vote was in 2013, when then-president Rafael Correa reached 57% (thus winning the presidency in the first round). Banker and future president Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023) had won 23%, and former president Lucio Gutiérrez (2003-2005) won 7% of the valid votes. However, it had never happened before that the leading candidates obtained such a high and, at the same time, similar vote share.

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Son 20 capsulas dramatizadas, de no más de 30 minutos, que hacen un recorrido histórico desde la invasión de América por españoles y portugueses hasta el nuevo imperio impuesto por Estados Unidos. Producida por José Ignacio y María López Vigil.

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The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (Persea americana) is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to the Americas and was first domesticated in Mesoamerica more than 5,000 years ago. It was prized for its large and unusually oily fruit. The tree likely originated in the highlands bridging south-central Mexico and Guatemala. Avocado trees have a native growth range from Mexico to Costa Rica. Its fruit, sometimes also referred to as an alligator pear or avocado pear, is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed. Sequencing of its genome showed that the evolution of avocados was shaped by polyploidy events and that commercial varieties have a hybrid origin. Avocado trees are partly self-pollinating, and are often propagated through grafting to maintain consistent fruit output. Avocados are presently cultivated in the tropical and Mediterranean climates of many countries. Mexico is the world's leading producer of avocados as of 2020, supplying nearly 30% of the global harvest in that year.

The fruit of domestic varieties have smooth, buttery, golden-green flesh when ripe. Depending on the cultivar, avocados have green, brown, purplish, or black skin, and may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical. For commercial purposes the fruits are picked while unripe and ripened after harvesting. The nutrient density and extremely high fat content of avocado flesh are useful to a variety of cuisines and are often eaten to enrich vegetarian diets.

In major production regions like Chile, Mexico and California the water demands of avocado farms place strain on local resources. Avocado production is also implicated in other externalities, including deforestation and human rights concerns associated with the partial control of their production in Mexico by organized crime. Global warming is expected to result in significant changes to the suitable growing zones for avocados, and place additional pressures on the locales in which they are produced due to heat waves and drought.

Taxonomy and evolution

The genus Persea to which the avocado belongs is considered to have a North American origin, with Persea suggested to have diversified in Central America during the Pleistocene epoch. The modern avocado is thought to have speciated from other Persea during the Pleistocene, estimated at around either 1.3 million or 430,000 years ago. A number of authors, including Connie Barlow in her 2001 book The Ghosts of Evolution, have speculated that the avocado is an "evolutionary anachronism" with megafaunal dispersal syndrome (a concept originally proposed in the 1980s by Paul S. Martin and Daniel H. Janzen[30]), arguing that the avocado likely coevolved dispersal of its large seed by now-extinct megafauna. Barlow proposed that the dispersers included the gomphothere (elephant relative) Cuvieronius, as well as ground sloths, toxodontids, and glyptodonts.

Etymology

The word avocado comes from the Spanish aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Mexican) word āhuacatl [aːˈwakat͡ɬ], which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa. In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle", and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle".

In Central American, Caribbean Spanish-speaking countries, and Spain it is known by the Mexican Spanish name aguacate, while South American Spanish-speaking countries Argentina, Chile, Perú and Uruguay use a Quechua-derived word, palta. The Nahuatl āhuacatl can be compounded with other words, as in ahuacamolli, meaning avocado soup or sauce, from which the Spanish word guacamole derives.

Cultivation

Domestication, leading to genetically distinct cultivars, possibly originated in the Tehuacan Valley in the state of Puebla, Mexico. There is evidence for three possible separate domestications of the avocado, resulting in the currently recognized Guatemalan (quilaoacatl), Mexican (aoacatl) and West Indian (tlacacolaocatl) landraces. The Guatemalan and Mexican and landraces originated in the highlands of those countries, while the West Indian landrace is a lowland variety that ranges from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador to Peru, achieving a wide range through human agency before the arrival of the Europeans. The three separate landraces were most likely to have already intermingled[a] in pre-Columbian America and were described in the Florentine Codex. As a result of artificial selection, the fruit and correspondingly the seeds of cultivated avocados became considerably larger relative to their earlier wild forebears millennia before the Columbian exchange.

The earliest residents of northern coastal Peru were living in temporary camps in an ancient wetland and eating avocados, along with chilies, mollusks, sharks, birds, and sea lions. The oldest discovery of an avocado pit comes from Coxcatlan Cave, dating from around 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. The avocado tree also has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America, likely beginning as early as 5,000 BC. A water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was discovered in the pre-Inca city of Chan Chan.

Production

In 2020, world production of avocados was 8.1 million tonnes, led by Mexico with 30% (2.4 million tonnes) of the total (table). Other major producers were Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, and Indonesia, together producing 35% of the world total. Despite market effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, volume production of avocados in Mexico increased by 40% over 2019 levels.

In 2018, the US Department of Agriculture estimated that 231,028 hectares (570,880 acres) in total were under cultivation for avocado production in Mexico, a 6% increase over the previous year, and that 2 million tonnes would be exported. The Mexican state of Michoacán is the world leader in avocado production, accounting for 80% of all Mexican output. Most Mexican growers produce the Hass variety due to its longer shelf life for shipping and high demand among consumers.

Market

Seventy-six percent of Mexico's avocado exports go to the United States, with the free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico in July 2020 facilitating avocado shipments within the North American free trade zone.

Culinary

The fruit of horticultural cultivars has a markedly higher fat content than most other fruit, mostly monounsaturated fat, and as such serves as an important staple in the diet of consumers who have limited access to other fatty foods (high-fat meats and fish, dairy products). Having a high smoke point, avocado oil is expensive compared to common salad and cooking oils, and is mostly used for salads or dips.

A ripe avocado yields to gentle pressure when held in the palm of the hand and squeezed. The flesh is prone to enzymatic browning, quickly turning brown after exposure to air. To prevent this, lime or lemon juice can be added to avocados after peeling.

It is used in both savory and sweet dishes, though in many countries not for both. The avocado is common in vegetarian cuisine as a substitute for meats in sandwiches and salads because of its high fat content.

Generally, avocado is served raw, though some cultivars, including the common 'Hass', can be cooked for a short time without becoming bitter. The flesh of some avocados may be rendered inedible by heat. Prolonged cooking induces this chemical reaction in all cultivars

It is used as the base for the Mexican dip known as guacamole, as well as a spread on corn tortillas or toast, served with spices. Avocado is a primary ingredient in avocado soup. Avocado slices are frequently added to hamburgers and tortas and is a key ingredient in California rolls and other makizushi ("maki", or rolled sushi).

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The love affair of Mexicans with the president continues 100 days after her arrival to power, with approval percentages reaching 80%, four points more than just a month ago. There are not many elements yet to qualify a good government, but nor to criticize it, so that citizens feel satisfied with the vote they cast in the elections, which raised Claudia Sheinbaum as the person with the most votes in the country's recent history. . “A huge disaster would have to have occurred for a person who received so many votes to lose support in such a short time,” says Heidi Osuna, director of Enkoll, the house that carried out this survey for EL PAÍS and W Radio between the 3rd and the January 5 through 1,203 interviews in homes. The retrospective vote is always higher than the real vote, that is, when people are asked who they voted for in the previous elections, the majority side with the winner. That is also what happens now with Sheinbaum. And whoever lost the most, the most preferences are taken away. It's the Matthew effect.

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Very clear Marxist-Leninist language there comparing Viv Ansanm with the CPC/KMT alliance in occupied China. Kim Ives doesn't hold back in actual interviews.

But as usual, fantastic analysis on Haiti class dynamics.

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On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.

The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.

Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.

Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.

On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.

In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.

Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.

The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara

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On Sunday, United States President-elect Donald Trump said that his new administration will try and regain control of the Panama Canal.

His statements drew rebuke from Panama President Jose Raul Mulino.

What did Trump say?

Trump brought up the Panama Canal at AmericaFest, an annual event organised by conservative group Turning Point.

“We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else,” he said at the Arizona event, adding that the US “foolishly gave it away”.

After Trump’s statement, he and Panamanian President Mulino traded barbs.

“Every square metre of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area belongs to Panama and will continue belonging [to Panama],” Mulino said in a recorded statement published on his X account.

Trump reposted a news article about Mulino’s statement on his Truth Social platform, captioning it: “We’ll see about that”.

On Saturday in a Truth Social post, Trump also hinted at China’s growing influence over the Panama Canal. “It was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” he wrote. “We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands!”

China does not control the canal. However, a Hong Kong-based corporation, CK Hutchison Holdings has operated two of the canal’s ports, located on the Caribbean and Pacific entrances, since 1997.

In his Sunday statement on X, Mulino also said that China does not have influence over the Panama Canal.

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Me llamo Bijhan Agha. Me trasladé a Uruguay hace muchos años huyendo de la violencia. Aquí puedo perseguir mi sueño de ser creadora de cómics. He hecho este cómic, "Los Legendarios Caballeros X", para expresarme y expresar mi amor por los superhéroes, tanto de los cómics estadounidenses como de la televisión japonesa. Hay artes marciales, travesuras de espías, monstruos, poderes elementales y drama. Estamos haciendo un Kickstarter para imprimir el cómic en inglés. Pero si te comprometes por 1 dólar americano, y me envías un mensaje privado en Kickstarter pidiéndolo, recibirás el cómic digital en español. Lo traduje yo mismo, pero también lo verifiqué con mis amigos uruguayos por si acaso. Me ayudaron con modismos y terminología sudamericana más reciente.

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Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, welcomed the heads of state and government of the ALBA countries as well as all the delegations that will participate at the 24th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) at the Simón Bolívar Convention Center in La Carlota, Caracas, on Saturday, December 14.

Earlier on Friday, in a preparatory meeting at the Foreign Ministry headquarters, >Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said, “At the heart of the revolutionary, anti-imperialist and Bolivarian Caracas, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty, the vital nucleus of the independence, dignity and sovereignty of the Great Homeland … Two visionaries like Commanders Chávez and Fidel were able to unite their capabilities and take the bold step, full of convictions and morals, to urge Latin America and the Caribbean that we must move forward, build together and unite all the forces of a heroic continent that has achieved so many feats for centuries, for its definitive liberation.”

The heads of state who attended the summit were the presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; of Bolivia, Luis Arce; of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; the prime ministers of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit; Antigua and Barbuda, Gastón Browne; and of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.

After bilateral meetings and special activities, the heads of state and government and the delegations were scheduled to hold a private meeting, and in the afternoon they toured the exhibition depicting the achievements of ALBA-TCP during its 20 years of existence.

The meeting was also attended by more than 80 leaders of social and popular movements from 30 countries, belonging to the ALBA Movements.

Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia are the member countries of this regional bloc that is essential in the current international scenario headed by the US and European imperialist powers.

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On April 14, 2023, Brazilian president Lula da Silva arrived at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to meet with President Xi Jinping on his official state visit, his first since being reelected into the presidency in January 2023. Welcoming him was a band playing a popular Brazilian song released in 1980, called “Um Novo Tempo” (“A New Era”) by Ivan Lins, a song marking the transition out of a twenty-year military dictatorship. “A New Era” also fittingly describes the new stage that Lula’s return signified for China-Brazil relations, which had been strained under former president Jair Bolsonaro.

In 1993, Brazil was the first country to establish a “strategic partnership” with China, a relationship that has deepened and broadened at an impressive rate since. In fact, according to the Brazilian government, since Lula’s first visit to China twenty years ago in 2004, trade between the two countries had increased twenty-one times, with Brazilian exports surpassing the $100 billion barrier for the first time this year. Lula’s visit resulted in fifteen agreements and $10 billion in investments from China, which included expanded collaboration in space, digital economy, the automotive industry, and renewable energy, among others sectors.

This year, Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of official diplomatic relations. In this historic year, there are a few highly anticipated events, including the June meeting of the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Partnership and Cooperation Commission, the main mechanism of bilateral dialogue created during Lula’s first term. The presidents are set to meet during Xi’s November state visit to Brazil, which is hosting the G20 Leaders’ Summit. The importance of the Sino-Brazilian relationship cannot be underestimated in the context of the rise of the Global South, the decline of U.S. hegemony, and the emergence of a New Cold War. With a look back into the history of bilateral relations, how can we understand the importance of these two countries in the current conjuncture in pushing forward changes unseen in a century?

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Usual fair stuff, but some funny thingies from new york crimes

Mr. Musk “has bowed down,” Paulo Figueiredo, a right-wing pundit who had his X account blocked in Brazil, wrote in a post on Thursday, when X first hired new lawyers in Brazil, signaling a shift in stance. “It’s a very sad day for freedom of expression.”

The Times failed to mention why Figueiredo was blocked, or his family ties—a connection it had made before, in the 2019 article “Investors in Former Trump-Branded Hotel in Brazil Charged With Corruption” (1/31/19):

Mr. Figueiredo, the grandson of the last military dictator in the authoritarian government that ran Brazil from 1964 to 1985, displayed a picture of himself with Mr. Trump at the Trump Tower in New York, both men flashing a thumbs-up sign.

The different framing illustrates the Times‘ double standard: When it’s useful to attack Trump, Figueiredo is identified as the grandson of an authoritarian. When used to criticize a left-wing Brazilian government as authoritarian, he’s introduced merely as a “right-wing pundit.”

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Journey inside the kitchen of celebrity chef Luis Ramón Batlle, an ambassador for Cuban cuisine. While U.S. sanctions impact the availability and cost of food, Chef Batlle says there is a silver lining: forcing creativity. “You become a magician, an inventor,” he says.

Batlle was part of the first delegation of Cuban chefs to visit the U.S. during the Obama opening. “It changed my life,” he says. But things changed when Trump became president. Cuban food culture, which was flourishing during normalization, has taken a hit from sanctions and other restrictions imposed by Trump and Biden. It is harder for Cuban chefs to travel to the United States, there are fewer visitors to Cuba and food is scarcer than ever.

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Donald Trump’s arrival to the presidency of the United States suggests the possibility that his government team, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, will once again launch the “maximum pressure” strategy against Venezuela and its economy. This policy is yet to be defined.

On some occasions, Trump questioned the Biden administration’s relaxation of some pressure measures against Venezuela, due to the US dependence on crude oil. He also added that in 2020, when he left the White House, Venezuela “was about to collapse, we would have taken it over. We would have taken all its oil, which we have right next door.”

The now president-elect questioned in June 2023 that the Biden government “bought Venezuela’s oil,” as according to him, “it makes a dictator very rich.”

During his campaign, Trump refrained from making any comment on his approach towards the Venezuelan government or whether there would be any policy change on his return to the White House. He has not referred to any concrete actions regarding Venezuela following his election.

However, it is worth considering possible scenarios under the relaunch of “maximum pressure,” and how the Venezuelan economy could react to [asimilar] those measures.

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Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa]; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.

Rivera had four wives and numerous children, including at least one illegitimate daughter. His first child and only son died at the age of two. His third wife was fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with whom he had a volatile relationship that continued until her death. Leon Trotsky lived with Rivera and Kahlo for several months while exiled in Mexico.

Due to his importance in the country's art history, the government of Mexico declared Rivera's works as monumentos históricos. As of 2018, Rivera holds the record for highest price at auction for a work by a Latin American artist. The 1931 painting The Rivals, part of the record-setting Collection of Peggy Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, sold for US$9.76 million.

Biography

He was born in the city of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, on December 8, 1886. At the age of eleven, he entered the National School of Fine Arts, San Carlos, where he was a student of Andrés Ríos, Santiago Rebull, José María Velasco, Leandro Izaguirre and Félix Parra. In 1902, he left the School of Fine Arts and moved to the countryside, where he dedicated himself to painting landscapes with absolute freedom, as well as to the study of pre-Columbian history and Mexican archaeology with Félix Parra. He also became friends with the engraver José Guadalupe Posada.

He was one of the most renowned visual artists and intellectuals of the early 20th century. He belonged to the group of Mexican muralists, mainly formed by José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He cultivated painting, drawing, engraving and sculpture; he also had an enormous interest in architecture and was one of the first collectors of pre-Hispanic art.

In 1907 he presented his first exhibition at the San Carlos Academy, which won him a scholarship to study in Europe. In Madrid, he worked with Eduardo Chicharro at the Academia de San Fernando and became acquainted with Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Ramón Gómez de la Serna. In Paris he studied the works exhibited in museums, became acquainted with the modern painting of Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso, and worked in the open-air schools of Montparnasse and on the banks of the Seine River. He returned to Mexico in October 1910 and participated in the events of the centennial anniversary of the independence, organized by Porfirio Diaz

In July 1912 he returned to Europe, where he dabbled in cubism, was a disciple of Pablo Picasso and exhibited works in various group exhibitions. In 1920, he traveled through Italy for seventeen months to study Etruscan, Byzantine and Renaissance art. Attracted by the political and social changes that had occurred in recent years, such as the death of Venustiano Carranza, the new government of Alvaro Obregón, as well as the possibility of working and growing in his country, he returned to Mexico in 1921.

In 1922 he began his muralist period with the decoration of the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater of the National Preparatory School. Together with José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Xavier Guerrero, Carlos Mérida, Ramón de Alba and Fermín Revueltas, among others, he formed the Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors. From 1923 to 1926 he painted one hundred and sixty-three frescoes on the walls of the Secretaría de Educación Pública and the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura de Chapingo. Between 1927 and 1928 he was invited to the USSR by the Soviet Government and taught Monumental Painting at the School of Plastic Arts in Moscow.

Again in Mexico, in 1929, he painted murals in the Palacio de Cortés in Cuernavaca, the work known as Historia de Morelos, Conquista y Revolución; in the monumental stairway of the Palacio Nacional, Epopeya del pueblo mexicano (completed in 1935); the fresco in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, El hombre controlador del universo (1934); the panels for the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City, México folklórico y turístico, La dictadura, Danza de los huichilobos and Agustín Lorenzo (Carnaval de Huejotzingo) (1936), now in the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; the frescoes of the National Institute of Cardiology (1944); Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central (1947-1948), originally for the dining room of the Hotel del Prado; and in the Cárcamo de Dolores, El agua, origen de la vida (1951). In his later years, he painted the façade of the Estadio Olímpico Universitario, La Universidad, la familia y el deporte en México, and the façade of the Teatro de los Insurgentes, to mention a few.

In the United States, he painted frescoes on the walls of the staircase of the Luncheon Club, of the San Francisco Stock Exchange; at the School of Fine Arts, in San Francisco, California, and in the house of Mrs. Rosalind Sterns, in the same city. In New York, in the Rockefeller Center, in the Radio City Music Hall building (destroyed fresco that he later repeated in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico); in the New Worker's School and the frescoes in the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.

He died in Mexico City on November 24, 1957.

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Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has arrived in the city of Beijing, China, to carry out an extensive agenda to strengthen bilateral strategic relations between both nations, which, in 2024, reached half a century, within the framework of the multipolar world represented by the BRICS alliance.

The top Venezuelan official was received this Wednesday, December 4, by a delegation from the government of President Xi Jinping and the Venezuelan ambassador to China, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, the former Venezuelan interior minister.

During this visit, the vice president is expected to hold meetings with important authorities of the Asian nation to strengthen the relations in economic, financial, technological, and political fields, among others, that have been consolidated in the five stages of strategic relations between both nations.

China and Venezuela have raised their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership for “all tests and at all times,” beginning with the visit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to China in September 2023, which consolidated these ties of cooperation and construction of a new world geopolitics.

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