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...The count was proceeding slowly after the server which was being used to centralise the vote count was blocked, the head of the vote Jesús María Casal said....
...Grupo Aval is a conglomerate controlled by Colombia’s richest man, Luis Carlos Sarmiento....
...Admiral Ángel Enrique Sarmiento, the naval ministry undersecretary, later apologised for the confusion....
...“Thank God those days are gone,” recalls María Jimena Duzán, El Espectador’s co-ordinator at the Kremlin at the time. They certainly have. Back then, Colombia was on the verge of apparent collapse....
...“She is an example to any entrepreneur,” says María Lucía Roa, the national head of Ashoka, the social innovation programme through which Escobar passed....
...Jude María José Sarmiento granted injunctions last Friday blocking the use by Cristina Fernández, the president, of emergency decrees to transfer the funds and to fire Martín Redrado, the central bank president...
...His unexpected reinstatement capped a day of drama that began when Judge María José Sarmiento upheld a request by opposition parties to freeze the transfer of reserves to the fund, which Ms Fernández created...
...The government has lodged appeals and María José Sarmiento, the judge, is expected to respond on Monday. Further appeals, to the Supreme Court, are likely to follow....
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