Former guerrilla Hashim Thaci bids for a third term as prime minister of Kosovo yesterday, under pressure from voters angry over poverty and corruption and a war crimes investigation that threatens to ensnare his former comrades-in-arms. Some analysts expect the closest election race since Thaci presided over Kosovo’s Western-backed secession from Serbia in 2008. Frustration with Kosovo’s progress since independence is running high among many of its 1.8 million people, who rank among Europe’s poorest. About one-third of the…
Summer-long events honor Fania Records’ 50th year – New York Daily News
Sun Jun 8 , 2014
New York Daily News Summer-long events honor Fania Records’ 50th yearNew York Daily NewsFor many Latin music lovers, it doesn’t get any better than the Fania All-Stars. The band created in the late 1960s by cherry-picking hot talent from the roster of acts on the Fania Records label brought the […]