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In Rome, a New Branch of Eataly – NYTimes.com

FOR more than two decades, the glass-domed Air Terminal languished beside the rail lines of Rome’s Stazione Ostiense in a state of abandonment. Squatters occupied its hollow vertical spaces, and the surrounding area could only be described as seedy. Then, two years ago, the giant high-end supermarket chain Eataly began …

Latin America’s new authoritarians

CARACAS, Venezuela – More than two decades after Latin America’s last right-wing dictatorships dissolved, a new kind of authoritarian leader is rising in several countries: democratically elected presidents who are ruling in increasingly undemocratic ways. Unlike the iron-fisted juntas of a generation ago, these leaders do not assassinate opposition figures …