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Spain’s Queen Letizia visits Los Angeles to promote language

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Spain's Queen Letizia attends the inauguration and plaque unveiling of The Instituto Cervantes in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Luis García Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute, left, Queen Letizia, Santiago Cabanas, Spanish Ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Spain's Queen Letizia attends the inauguration and plaque unveiling of The Instituto Cervantes in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Luis García Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute, left, Queen Letizia, Santiago Cabanas, Spanish Ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spain’s Queen Letizia was in Los Angeles on Tuesday where she celebrated the opening of a center that promotes the Spanish language and culture throughout the world.

https://apnews.com/article/education-los-angeles-spain-c5eea9502afde9ab3c3abf4e8cc3ff91

China on campus: Confucius Institutes collapse nationwide

by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |

May 04, 2021 07:00 AM

Confucius Institutes are billed by the Chinese Communist Party as benevolent language and culture programs and once numbered more than 100 on U.S. campuses across the country. But intelligence officials, members of Congress, and the Trump administration accused them of being an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, used for propaganda and malign foreign influence purposes. In part one of this series, China on Campus, the Washington Examiner looks at how the once-ubiquitous institutions have waned over the past couple of years, shrinking in size and disappearing from dozens of colleges — including an Ivy League school once seen as its flagship program.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/confucius-institutes-collapse-us-campuses

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Human Trafficking Network in Spain’s Barcelona Dismantled With Over 1,000 Victims

ByJeremy Dickson

Jun 12, 2020 000 Victims, Global 247 news, Human Trafficking Network in Spain’s Barcelona Dismantled With Over 1

Human Trafficking Network in Spain’s Barcelona Dismantled With Over 1,000 Victims

Catalonia police bust the network with 12 arrests and identified almost 1,000 victims who formed part of an international human trafficking network.

The Mossos d’Esquadra forces carried out searches in the provinces of Burgos and Barcelona, as well as overseas. Police abroad also carried out three searches in Portugal, one in Holland and two in Germany.

Almost 1,000 victims have been identified in this operation, including women and children. Two kilos of marihuana were seized and around €500,000 in profits was also retained from the criminal network.

The operation labelled ‘operacion-contra-el-trafico-de-personas’ started after Guardia Civil officers identified a criminal gang who was in charge of transporting a high number of undocumented migrants to France in 2018.

Of the 1,000 victims were children recruited to work and were exported through Europe from Spain into France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Pregnant women were also exploited.

https://global247news.com/2020/06/12/human-trafficking-network-in-spains-barcelona-dismantled-with-over-1000-victims/

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Spain's King Felipe VI renounces father's inheritance

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15 March 2020

Former King Juan Carlos (left) and King Felipe VI. Photo: May 2019Image source, EPA

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King Felipe VI (right) is trying to distance himself from his father Juan Carlos, Spanish royal analysts say

Spain's King Felipe VI has renounced the inheritance of his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos.

In a statement, the palace said that Juan Carlos, who abdicated in 2014, would also stop receiving an annual grant of €194,000 (£174,800; $217,100).

This comes as the 82-year-old former king is being criticised for his lavish lifestyle.

Juan Carlos, who reigned for 39 years, is also facing an investigation by the Swiss financial authorities.

This follows media reports that he had received $100m in 2008 from Saudi Arabia via an offshore account.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51902673

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Nixon and Mao: the handshake that turned Taiwan towards a new future

Chiang Ching-kuo inherited his father’s ambitions to retake mainland China but Washington’s embrace of Beijing shattered those hopes

In the aftermath, the island embarked on a path of self-reliance that made it into an Asian tiger

Lawrence Chung

Lawrence Chung in Taipei

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Published: 8:00am, 30 Mar, 2022

In February 1972, US president Richard Nixon defied conventional foreign policy wisdom when he arrived in Beijing for meetings with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In recognition of the trip’s historical significance, the South China Morning Post is running a multimedia series exploring the impact of that moment. Here, Lawrence Chung looks at the view from Taiwan.

The handshake between then US president Richard Nixon and chairman Mao Zedong half a century ago was hailed at the time as a historic moment. But for Chiang Ching-kuo, Taiwan’s then vice-premier and the eldest son of Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, it was a slap in the face.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3172286/nixon-and-mao-handshake-turned-taiwan-towards-new-future

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California Uber Alles

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William Calhoun Baggs, called "Bill", was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Colquitt, Georgia in Miller County near the Georgia-Alabama border. He attended Miller County High School, which was still racially segregated at the time. There, he edited the school newspaper and lettered in numerous sports. His classmates voted him valedictorian of the 1941 graduating class. He turned down an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy and, instead, moved to the Panama Canal Zone with his sister and brother-in-law.[citation needed]

Career

Baggs started work in journalism as a reporter for the Panama Star and Herald. In 1942, he volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Force and served with the 485th Heavy Bomb Group (830th Squadron) of the Fifteenth Air Force in Venosa, Italy. As a bombardier, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Unit Citation. During a period of rest and reassignment in Miami Beach, Florida, he fell in love with the growing city of Miami as well as a Red Cross Recreational Assistant named Joan Orr, who later would become his wife. He worked briefly as a cub reporter in Greensboro, N.C., before returning to Miami as the aviation reporter for the Miami News. He was named a columnist in December 1949, and distinguished himself for taking progressive stands on civil rights, economic investment in Latin America to combat the rise of communism, and preserving the environment. As a columnist, he traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe and throughout the United States. He built strong friendships with world leaders as well as high-ranking politicians, such as Adlai Stephenson, and brothers John F. and Robert Kennedy.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Baggs

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Area occupies approximately the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne, at coordinates 25°40′25″N 80°09′34″W. This park includes the Cape Florida Light, the oldest standing structure in Greater Miami.[1] In 2005, it was ranked as having the 8th best beach in the country,[2][3] and in 2013 Forbes ranked it at 7th.[4]

The park was named in honor of Bill Baggs, editor of The Miami News from 1957 until his death in 1969. He worked to protect the land from development and to preserve some of the key in its natural state.

In 2004 a large historical marker was erected at the site to mark it as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail, as hundreds of Black Seminoles, many fugitive slaves, escaped from here to freedom in the Bahamas, settling mostly on Andros Island. In the early 1820s, some 300 American slaves reached the Bahamas, aboard 27 sloops and many canoes.[5] The US National Park Service is working with the Bahamas, particularly the African Bahamanian Museum and Research Center (ABAC) in Nassau, to develop interpretive programs at Red Bays, Andros.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Baggs_Cape_Florida_State_Park

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Bullet

The Misfits - Topic

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, was the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree inLatin Americanaffairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush becameFlorida's Secretary of Commerce. He served until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

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The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reassigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

The bay is historically important for the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. The area is a site known for its diving, with an abundance of marine fauna, e.g. 30 species of sponges belonging to 19 families and 21 genera,[3] to be found in the bay.[4]

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The Spanish General

Íñigo became a page in the service of a relative, Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, treasurer (contador mayor) of the kingdom of Castile. During his time in the household of Don Velázquez, Íñigo took up dancing, fencing, gambling, the pursuit of the young ladies, and duelling.[9] Íñigo was keen on military exercises and was driven by a desire for fame. He patterned his life after the stories of El Cid, the knights of Camelot, The Song of Roland and other tales of romantic chivalry.[16]

He joined the army at seventeen, and according to one biographer, he strutted about "with his cape flying open to reveal his tight-fitting hose and boots; a sword and dagger at his waist".[17][page needed] According to another he was "a fancy dresser, an expert dancer, a womanizer, sensitive to insult, and a rough punkish swordsman who used his privileged status to escape prosecution for violent crimes committed with his priest brother at carnival time."[18]

In 1509, aged 18, Íñigo took up arms for Antonio Manrique de Lara, 2nd Duke of Nájera. His diplomacy and leadership qualities earned him the title "servant of the court", and made him very useful to the Duke.[19] Under the Duke's leadership, Íñigo participated in many battles without injury. However at the Battle of Pamplona on 20 May 1521 he was gravely injured when a French-Navarrese expedition force stormed the fortress of Pamplona, and a cannonball ricocheting off a nearby wall shattered his right leg.[20] Íñigo was returned to his father's castle in Loyola, where, in an era before anesthetics, he underwent several surgical operations to repair the leg, with his bones set and rebroken. In the end, the operations left his right leg shorter than the other. He would limp for the rest of his life, with his military career over.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola#Military_career

Brown was a member of the California Cadet Corps at St. Ignatius High School, where he graduated in 1955.[5][6] In 1955, Brown entered Santa Clara University for a year and left to attend Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit novice house in Los Gatos, intent on becoming a Catholic pries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown

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>Brown was a member of the California Cadet Corps at St. Ignatius High School, where he graduated in 1955.[5][6] In 1955, Brown entered Santa Clara University

Leon Edward Panetta is an American Democratic Party politician who has served in several different public office positions, including Secretary of Defense, CIA Director, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as a U.S. Representative from California.

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Panetta Institute for Public Policy

https://www.scu.edu/cas/political-science/beyond-the-classroom/panetta-institute-for-public-policy/

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