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...Opposition leaders including former president Álvaro Uribe attacked Petro and his reform plans....
...Until now, the conservatives have relied on the popularity of former president Álvaro Uribe to drum up support for their cause, but his star is waning....
...“We have a pension system which is absolutely unequal and a tax system riddled with loopholes,” said Alejandro Gaviria, rector of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and a former health minister....
...Colombia’s ambassador to Washington is Francisco Santos, a former vice-president under Alvaro Uribe....
...“We run the risk of becoming digital tribes and returning to the Middle Ages via the back door,” says Alejandro Santos, director of leading newsweekly Semana, which this month published an electoral poll...
...He is a philosopher-politician and a welcome newcomer to the genre of medical writers: Colombia’s health minister, Alejandro Gaviria Uribe....
...Alejandro Ordóñez, Colombia’s inspector-general, who acts as the watchdog of public officials and is seen as an ally of Mr Uribe, also weighed in on Thursday, telling Congress: “Symbolic punishments are...
...According to Alejandro Reyes, director of Ultrabursátiles, a Bogotá-based brokerage, the market expects 5 per cent growth in the first quarter....
...The mayor was accused in December of mismanaging changes to rubbish collection by Alejandro Ordóñez, the conservative grand inspector general, who acts as the watchdog of public officials and holds the power...
...Mr Peña Nieto is no Álvaro Uribe, the obsessively micro-managerial former Colombian president who took a hard line on leftist guerrillas....
...Indeed, there was scarcely a gallery to visit until a crackdown on the gangs by President Álvaro Uribe, who held office from 2002 to 2010. Bogotá has gone from fear to hope....
...So, according to Alejandro Ordóñez, the inspector general, Petro violated the principles of the free market while also endangering people’s health....
...Colombia’s grand inspector general, the ultraconservative Alejandro Ordóñez, sparked an outcry when on Monday he removed Mr Petro, a former guerrilla with the defunct M-19 armed group, from his post and...
...“During the weekends in the peak of the season, there are horses and players everywhere here; this is a feast,” says Alejandro Montaña, the club’s vice-president....
...Alejandro Arreaza and Alejandro Grisanti of Barclays Capital have this to say: Even if the board members are supposed to maintain independent positions, being designated by the president, the new members...
...Santo Domingo’s son Alejandro continues to support the newspaper financially....
...In New York, a city that is home to more than 200,000 Colombians, Alejandro Santo Domingo stands out....
...A US-backed military offensive, started by former president Álvaro Uribe, has put the rebels on the back foot, allowing the government to regain control of many areas....
...The truth is that, in practice, it has been so,” says Alejandro Reyes, an analyst with Interbolsa in Bogota....
...“It was the price of President Uribe’s ‘social cohesiveness’ pact.”...
...Alejandro Santos, editor of Semana, the Bogota-based magazine that broke the wiretapping story, says disenchantment with President Uribe began to set in among the country’s intelligentsia during his second...
...Alejandro Encinas and Jesus Ortega, the two candidates for the party presidency, are very different figures. Mr Encinas is considerably further to the left than Mr Ortega....
...Finally, Mr Uribe’s political opponents will take every opportunity to shift the debate to Antioquia where Mr Uribe was a firm supporter of the controversial Convivir neighbourhood watch groups when he was...
...Bad start Alejandro Toledo has had a commendable late surge of energy in the twilight days of his presidency, personally lobbying members of the US Congress to support a trade agreement with Peru....
...Uribe’s election Álvaro Uribe looks certain to win his second term as Colombian president, with opinion polls showing that he is likely to achieve victory in Sunday’s first round of voting....
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