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...“The way [homeland security secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas and Biden have interpreted the asylum system, you can just come in and say I have a credible fear,” Scott Fry, a local engineer, told McCormick....
...Alejandro Werner, director of the Georgetown Americas Institute, recalled how during his time as a senior IMF official during the pandemic “the African delegations would present a specific list of joint...
...Economy minister Alejandro Gil told parliament in July that economic growth is less than 2 per cent this year and eight points below pre-pandemic levels....
...Rebecca Bill Chávez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, believes that measuring Latin America’s leaders on a traditional political axis is outmoded....
...Instead they lobby privately and hope that a moderate faction, which includes finance minister José Antonio Ocampo and education minister Alejandro Gaviria, will act as a brake on Petro....
...Guatemala president Alejandro Giammattei is another possible absentee. He said last month he would not attend after the US sanctioned the country’s attorney-general, accusing him of corruption....
...The original Caracas incarnation, El Palmar, used to serve Peking duck to Venezuela’s politicians, reportedly including Hugo Chávez in the early years of his presidency....
...“We’re stupid — we let ourselves be mistreated,” says Zenaida Chávez, whose daughter Linda Olguín Chávez went back to her abusive partner, only to be stabbed to death, her throat cut, in 2014....
...While Alejandro Grisanti, a director on the ad hoc PDVSA board appointed by Mr Guaidó, sees the executive order as a “clear signal from the US administration that it’s seeking to protect Venezuelan assets...
...“This has been building for a while,” said 28-year-old Alejandro Rosas, an anti-government protester, as he joined a march that snaked through the streets of the capital. “We need a new Venezuela....
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...Manager Alejandro Valenzuela greets us, motioning for quiet, before pointing into the canopy. “A woodcreeper,” he says....
...The days when the Chávez government prided itself on decent medical care for the poor are long gone....
...Murals of Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s charismatic predecessor, and Simon Bolívar, Latin America’s great liberator, have been defaced....
...Those include freeing more jailed dissidents, among them Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of Caracas; granting the opposition more seats in the electoral council, and establishing an electoral calendar that might...
...Chávez bequeathed an economy on the ropes to his successor, Nicolás Maduro....
...Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in August 1926 in Oriente province — or so the official Cuban biographies say....
...Alejandro Moreno, a priest and social scientist who researches violence from his bullet-pierced home in Petare, agrees....
...Ledezma was elected as major of Caracas in 2008 — would be suicidal....
...Mr Ledezma’s lawyer similarly said the accusations were unfounded....
...He says, however, that everything started to change when Hugo Chávez, the late president, rose to power in the late 1990s....
...“Maduro is trying, but he is not Chávez,” says socialist party supporter Jesús Rodríguez, a reference to the late Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s charismatic predecessor who won legitimacy with serial electoral...
...Hours after trading began, mayor Ledezma was dragged from his office....
...On Thursday afternoon, Venezuelan security forces arrested Caracas metropolitan mayor Antonio Ledezma, a fierce critic of President Nicolás Maduro who has accused Mr Ledezma of working with the US in a coup...
...The rapprochement began as back-channel talks two years ago, shortly after Hugo Chávez died of cancer....
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