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...“Governor [Alejandro] García Padilla is eager for the oversight board to meet so that Puerto Rico’s comprehensive debt restructuring process can move forward,” a spokesperson for governor’s office said....
...Alejandro García Padilla pushed on Monday for the American Senate to pass the PROMESA legislation that would create an oversight board that would be empowered to try to mend Puerto Rico’s finances....
...The proposal comes days after governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed into law emergency legislation that would give him the ability to declare a state of emergency and halt payments to creditors....
...The legislation, which previously passed in the Puerto Rico Senate, is expected to be signed into law by governor García Padilla shortly....
...Puerto Rico has been shut out of capital markets since governor Alejandro García Padilla characterised its debt obligations as unpayable. The island has defaulted on a number of its obligations....
...Freddy Padilla, commander of Colombia’s armed forces, is at pains to play down concerns, saying the real threat is posed by narco-traffickers rather than the Venezuelan armed forces. “I am not worried....
...No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Gabriel Silva, defence minister, and Freddy Padilla, head of Colombia’s armed forces, blamed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc)....
...Carlos Padilla, a Sandinista supporter who lives in Ciudad Sandino, a poor neighbourhood about eight miles from Managua, sums up the views of many when he says that almost 17 years of centre-right governments...
...Luttig has come out to say he was incensed by the suggestion, according to the Legal Times, and even called the attorney-general to make it clear his decision had “nothing whatsoever” to do with the Padilla...
...Europe’s central bank is misplaced ECB confirms rate rise FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 US response to Appeals Court ruling calling on the government to give an explanation for the criminal charges against Jose Padilla...
...least four areas: Guantánamo where fresh allegations of abuse emerge almost weekly; the existence of secret detention centres; “renditions” and abductions of suspects on foreign soil; and the case of Jose Padilla...
...President Bush’s justice department claims that suspected American terrorist Jose Padilla and an accomplice planned to enter the US through Mexico and blow up buildings in New York and other cities....
...One, Jose Padilla, remains in custody....
...“Previously the only leverage we have had was to revoke trade privileges altogether, but this is a very crude instrument, and neither Democrats nor Republicans have been willing to do this,” said Chris Padilla...
...Mr Hamdi's detention, along with that of another US-born terrorist suspect, Jose Padilla, triggered a huge legal battle over whether Washington had the power to detain indefinitely either citizens or foreigners...
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