Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever their field, Hispanic artists, designers, chefs and architects are united in their distaste for stereotypes and their appreciation of the richness of the individual cultures that are clustered under the Hispanic umbrella. "Taste is universal," insists Venezuelan-born Fashion Designer Carolina Herrera. "You either have it or you don't." The visions of creative Hispanics, like those of any other artists, are complex and individual. And yet few will deny the abiding presence and influence of a certain shared . . . sensibilidad...
...jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power!" But he never did. Within hours, Colino and Jose Alegrett, a Venezuelan and Intelsat's deputy director general, were fired. Alegrett was cited in the case for being involved in some of Colino's dealings, but he has returned to Venezuela and has not been charged with any crime...
...Just a day after last Wednesday's near disaster over the North Atlantic, a Pan American jet and a Venezuelan airliner came within 300 ft. of each other as they flew near Bermuda. An air-traffic controller apparently put the two planes at the same altitude -- about 39,000 ft. -- by mistake...
...about the waste product in the air- turbulence apparatus, the exchange seems rather stilted for a chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and a distinguished authority on international finance. But then, much needs to be explained if the reader is to share in the panic. Why are two unappealing Venezuelan brothers plotting to wreck the U.S. economy? What fearsome weapon does the Third World wield? How much do Swiss banks and European money houses have to gain at America's expense...
Early one morning last week, when most Nicaraguans were still asleep, Felix Pedro Espinoza Briones, a member of the National Assembly, was busy climbing the chain link fence surrounding the Venezuelan embassy in Managua. After diplomats began arriving for work, he entered the building and requested asylum. Espinoza, a critic of the Sandinista regime, apparently feared arrest. Such concerns are widespread in Nicaragua these days. Since the House passed legislation to give $100 million in aide to forces fighting the Sandinistas, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has been cracking down on a wide range of opponents...