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...Cárdenas said there was a “big difference between talking to somebody who’s part of the team and staff and somebody who gets to talk to him every night”....
...Lázaro Cárdenas, the Mexican president who nationalised Mexico’s oil industry in 1938, briefly legalised all drugs in 1940, including heroin, morphine and cocaine, and allowed for addicts to be treated as...
...“For us, the collapse in commodity prices is a permanent change,” says Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister. “We are operating under no illusions....
...According to Alejandro Reyes, director of Ultrabursátiles, a Bogotá-based brokerage, the market expects 5 per cent growth in the first quarter....
...Late last year, the Templars effectively took over Michoacán’s Lázaro Cárdenas port – an important Pacific entry to drugs and precursor chemicals as well as an exit for Michoacán’s iron ore, avocado and...
...“They will still be buying dollars, but much less, ” says Alejandro Reyes, an analyst with Ultrabursátiles in Bogotá, adding that so far this year the central bank purchased some $6bn in the spot market....
...“Drugs are not the issue,” says Alejandro Hope, a Mexico City security consultant....
...Although Colombia’s finance minister, Mauricio Cárdenas, had expected the country to grow 4.8 per cent this year, he was forced to revise that figure downwards last week....
...For Alejandro Grisanti and Alejandro Arreaza of Barclays Capital: Even if there is not a clear signal of a recovery yet, growth seems at least to be stabilizing, thereby reducing downside risk....
...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...
...Cárdenas joy was echoed locally. “In the current global scenario, there is a lot of appetite for Colombia,” Alejandro Reyes a senior trader with Ultrabursátiles in Bogotá, told beyondbrics....
...“You can’t ever begin to think you are even halfway with reforms,” says Mauricio Cardenas, finance minister of Colombia....
...The economy expanded almost 6 per cent last year, and Mauricio Cárdenas, the finance minister, forecasts an expansion of 4.7 – 5 per cent in 2012....
...“This could mean that we see a drop in violence in the short term in the areas he was disputing,” said Alejandro Hope, a security expert at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness in Mexico City....
...In the early 1990s, after abandoning an elite outfit in the military together with dozens of fellow soldiers in favour of a life of organised crime, Mr Méndez became a bodyguard of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén...
...But Alejandro Chacón, Mexico’s director of ports, aims to change that. Work has already begun on vastly expanding the Gulf of Mexico port’s infrastructure to the north of the existing installations....
...As Alejandro Díaz, a trade expert at Mexico’s College of the Northern Frontier in Baja California, puts it: “Nafta is not a complete free trade agreement at all.” And things have worsened....
...Peru What does Alejandro Toledo need to do to enhance his popularity?...
...Alberto Cardenas, the environment secretary, is a dark horse....
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