Juan Diego Quesada

3 weeks ago | elpais.com | Silvia R. Pontevedra |Museo Del Prado |Juan Diego Quesada |Diego Quevedo

La guía puesta por el Ayuntamiento ha convocado a los visitantes a la sombra de la puerta del recinto amurallado que corona uno de los mayores parques urbanos de Vigo, el monte de O Castro. Pero antes de acceder a la fortaleza que sirvió para defender la estratégica plaza —a lo largo de siglos— de los asedios extranjeros, la historiadora pide a los turistas que se atrevan a abandonar por un momento la frescura de la bóveda de entrada para observar dos cañones recalentados al sol de primavera.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Martín Bianchi |Juan Diego Quesada

Mario Vargas Llosa had known for almost five years that he was going to die. His doctors told him in the summer of 2020. According to the writer’s closest associates, one of the first things the Nobel Prize winner in Literature did after receiving the news was write a letter to his three children: Álvaro, Morgana, and Gonzalo. In it, he told them about his illness, a serious illness, in his case incurable, but for which there were treatments that could delay the final outcome.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Juan Diego Quesada

They warned him not to do it — that it would end badly — but nothing could dissuade him. In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa ran for the presidency of Peru with the same fervor he had always brought to his typewriter, as if his very life depended on it. He proved to be both a passionate and cerebral candidate, much like the characters in his novels, but ultimately lost at the polls to an agronomist engineer named Alberto Fujimori, who would later become a dictator.

2 months ago | elpais.com | Juan Diego Quesada

Los escritores del Boom pasaban a veces el fin de semana en alguna playa, juntos, con cenas que se alargaban hasta la madrugada. Se levantaban tarde, somnolientos, tomaban café y agarraban unas toallas que extendían sobre la arena, frente al mar. El primero en lanzarse al agua era Mario Vargas Llosa, que no se entretenía demasiado. Se secaba y daba un paseo por los alrededores.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Juan Diego Quesada

The meeting between Gustavo Petro and Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security, included some tense moments. There was no chemistry between them, and it was especially noticeable in Noem’s face, as she displayed her discomfort. The Colombian president, known for speaking his mind, told the ultraconservative Republican official, face-to-face, that one of the solutions to combat drug trafficking would be to legalize cocaine, as was the case in the past with alcohol.