By RICARDO CASTILLO Presidential Turkey Might Just Fly After several weeks of indecision, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has opted to hold a super lottery draw next Sept. 15 to “sell off” the onerous Dreamliner 757 deluxe transport presidential jet used by his predecessors Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, valued at $130 million. During his daily morning
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Shangri-la and the Green Umbrella By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Well, at long last, my not-so-fabulous-but-then-again-not-so-dreadful journey to the Dominican Republic (DR) has finally come to an end, so this will be the third and final installment of my journal. My next-to-last day was spent with my daughter at the ultra-luxurious Casa de Campo Golf Resort and Villas in La Romana, along
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My ‘Excelente’ Adventures in Punta Cana By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Well, it is finally Day Seven of my Dominican odyssey, and I am out of the hospital and inside the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Punta Cana, at the fareastern end of the Dominican Republic. And everything here, I am told, is “excelente.” Except it is not. I cannot say
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Not the Best Start By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Allianz, the international medical insurance company my daughter works for, decided to send her for a week to the Dominican Republic (DR) to check out hospitals across the island, so I decided to tag along to keep her company and to get to know the country firsthand. As it turned
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