De la Renta's timing is all the more impressive given that last year, the designer had a cancer scare that prompted those who clearly didn't know him well to assume he would slow down.

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"It's not clear, but the timing is quite coincidental, " de la Fuente said.

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Bill Millar, the governor at La Moye prison, said decisions relating to the timing of inspection requests were a political matter.

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