A Ravel Work Premieres at the New York Phil After Nearly 125 Years

A Ravel Work Premieres at the New York Phil After Nearly 125 Years

The conductor Gustavo Dudamel has premiered dozens of pieces in his career. But the score that he was giddily studying on a recent afternoon at Lincoln Center was different: a nearly 125-year-old piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel that had only recently surfaced in a Paris library. “Imagine more …

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How Venezuela Helps Feed the Violence in Colombia

How Venezuela Helps Feed the Violence in Colombia

In a remote corner of northeast Colombia, where dirt roads lead to lush hills lined with banana trees, farmers and their families have become the victims of a spate of violence unlike anything the country has seen in a generation. As two rebel groups battle for territory, more than 54,000 …

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Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil

Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil

Temperatures were rising inside the plane. Eighty-eight Brazilian deportees, most of them handcuffed and shackled, were getting restless on Friday under the watch of U.S. immigration agents. The passenger jet, dealing with repeated technical problems, was stuck on the tarmac in a sweltering city in the Amazon rainforest. Then the …

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Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations

Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations

Colombia’s president, early on Sunday, announced that he had turned back two American military planes carrying deportees from the United States, setting off an extraordinary crisis inside and outside his country as he infuriated President Trump and caught even his own inner circle off guard. President Gustavo Petro’s friends — …

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