Monday evening belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and although his trippy psychedelic feminine ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is enjoying out of competitors, it spiced up the Grand Theater Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the pageant, although Refn…
Even probably the most succesful autocrats can not rule alone. In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin wants his circle of handpicked oligarchs; in Iran, the Revolutionary Guards and its allies in the enterprise world shield the regime’s energy; Viktor Orban reworked Hungary into an “elected autocracy” with the assistance of some essential judges, political enforcers and…
Alex Saab is accused of having been the entrance man of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro (EFE/Rayner Peña R.) After a number of weeks of a lot hypothesis about his whereabouts, this Saturday Alex Saabfigurehead of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, was extradited again to the United States. According to sources consulted by the Colombian…
When Erika Rolo heard that the United States would restart direct business flights to Venezuela, she started obsessively checking the American Airlines web site. For months, she noticed nothing. Then, simply over every week in the past, Ms. Rolo, a Houston resident who was born in Venezuela, discovered one: American Airlines 3599 from Miami to…
In someday, Nicolas Roy went from cellar-dweller to Stanley Cup or bust. The Avalanche acquired the veteran in a commerce with Toronto on March 5, sending a conditional fifth-round draft choose in 2026 and a conditional first-round choice in 2027 to the Maple Leafs in change for Roy. It was a welcome transfer for Roy,…
The US authorities on Friday night conceded that the Venezuelan authorities might pay for Nicolás Maduro’s protection legal professionals, a problem that had been hanging over the case for weeks. In a letter filed in Manhattan federal courtroom, the US lawyer for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, stated that the Treasury Department…
