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...They fell out after Rodríguez Rivas turned against Stalin. Years later, Guzmán was ambushing army patrols while his former mentor lectured at the Center of Higher Military Studies....
...Miss Rivera (Elizabeth Rodriguez), a single mother who runs the house with benevolent ferocity, does her best to hold things together in the face of local residents’ objections and an indifferent city government...
...Mr Sánchez’s clearest option is to use the fear of the right to attract enough centrist voters to make a PSOE-led coalition inevitable and force Mr Rivera to consider reversing his veto, said Mr Rodríguez...
...The Catalan parties had helped bring Mr Sánchez to power last June, when he ousted former PP prime minister Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote....
...But Albert Rivera, the head of the opposition Ciudadanos party, said on Friday that Mr Sánchez should call swift elections. “We are entering a period of political instability in Spain,” Mr Rivera said....
...But many Colombians, who have suffered at the Farc’s hands, would rather see former rebel leaders humiliated, such as how Abimael Guzmán, head of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, was dressed...
...Quote of the week “Let’s make this the last day of the war” – Farc Commander Rodrigo Londoño, nom de guerre, Timochenko, after the signing of this week’s agreements....
...Politics is our living organ, our reason for being,” says Felipe Rodríguez, a beret-wearing guerrilla, as he slams Colombia’s conservatives including former president Álvaro Uribe, neoliberalism and capitalism...
...“If the heroic revolution of commander Fidel Castro managed to last more than 50 years [in Cuba], the beautiful revolution of Commander Chávez can last for ever,” she says....
...A former guerrilla fighter in El Salvador’s civil war between 1980 and 1992 and a mother of four daughters, she looks unshockable....
...Primo de Rivera was killed by a Republican firing squad in 1936, just months after the start of Spain’s civil war....
...Libyans say Isis fighters and their jihadi allies have menaced supporters of Khalifa Haftar, the former general and army commander backed by the Tubruq government, which is locked in a civil war with remnants...
...The US military barely acknowledges Camp 7, the facility’s supermax-style facility holding the 9/11 five and other high-value detainees, but the Guantánamo commanders provide the press with a limited tour...
...During the former tank commander’s 14-year rule, he spread martial ideals in an attempt to achieve a “civic-military union”....
...Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Richard Rodriguez, Viking, RRP$26.95 An author whose charming, associative prose is reminiscent of James Baldwin, Rodriguez has written autobiographical essays about...
...Among their number are supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former French far right leader, and Italians, who have travelled to Madrid especially to mark the occasion....
...“We have dealt the heaviest blows in our history against the narco-terrorist structure of the Farc,” Mr Rivera said of his 13 months in office, citing the killing of guerrilla commander Mono Jojoy....
...“I don’t need someone who is going to bad mouth everyone in Washington and talk sass to them,” said Theresa Rodriguez, 52, a former defence industry worker....
...It’s a country that has undertaken reforms,” was the verdict of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, prime minister of Spain, the Arab world’s nearest neighbour in the European Union....
...Other critics also found a moment to praise the commander-in-chief....
...The killing is the biggest setback for the Farc since a 2008 raid across Ecuador’s border that killed another top commander, Raúl Reyes, and a dramatic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential...
...“Things aren’t looking too good for Chávez on the international scene,” said Mervin Rodriguez, head of international relations at the Central University of Venezuela, who said that the former tank commander...
...“There could be more attacks, but it won’t achieve anything,” says Joseba Arregi, a former Basque nationalist politician opposed to terrorism....
...A US commander who has worked with Qadir describes him as an excellent ally....
...Such is the case of the former vice-president Jorge Rodriguez, one of 120 pre-candidates in the Caracas municipality of Libertador, for example....
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