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...Central bank governors in Brazil and Colombia have come under pressure from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Gustavo Petro, respectively, to cut rates further to help boost the economy....
...The fight for social justice certainly remains a potent unifying force, bringing together figures as diverse as Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia’s leader Gustavo Petro....
...Alejandro Silva, coached by the role’s creator Daniel Proietto, drifts through boneless solos, collapsing and rising as if at the mercy of an unseen puppeteer....
...“We are sleeping on top of a volcano,” says Alejandro Gaviria, former rector of the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá who stood as a progressive candidate for the presidency but lost in a primary....
...“Economically, it’s a catastrophe,” said Rémy Silva, who manages the Hotel d’Angleterre, once the haunt of Ernest Hemingway....
...Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was taken into custody; Ollanta Humala is awaiting trial; Alejandro Toledo was arrested in the US and is resisting extradition, and Mr García killed himself in April as the police were...
...additional reporting by Vanessa Silva in Caracas...
...Meanwhile, Mr Duque’s pick for ambassador to the Organization of American States is Alejandro Ordóñez, a bastion of Christian conservatism who may well go down well in Republican circles....
...“Brazil has a very delicate fiscal situation,” says Alejandro Werner, director, western hemisphere department, of the IMF....
...In Brazil, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has thrown the field wide open....
...A return to growth, markets on the up, and following the latest legal ruling against former president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, growing hopes of a market-friendly candidate winning this October’s presidential...
...Third in the polls is Marina Silva, an environmentalist on her third presidential run....
...“It is as if Colombia does not know how to turn the page,” says Ricardo Silva Romero, a leading columnist....
...“Deep inside, he’s the same López Obrador,” says Alejandro Schtulmann at Empra, a consultancy. “He might not be as bad as some people think, but we’re not sure.”...
...Alejandro Toledo, president from 2001 to 2006, faces charges that he received $20m in illicit funds from Odebrecht, while his successor Ollanta Humala was arrested last year on charges of taking bribes and...
...Others named are: Geraldo A Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Juan P....
...Indeed, it is perhaps telling that Marina Silva, a leading contender in the Brazilian presidential race, is an environmental activist raised by rubber tappers in the Amazon jungle....
...Those convicted in the Mensalão include former top lieutenants of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president – such as his then chief of staff José Dirceu – who were found guilty of using public money...
...The initiative dates back to 2005 under former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was his Brazilian counterpart. It continued under Peru’s next president, Alan García....
...Ricardo Guisecke, former vice-minister of energy under Toledo, environment; Rudecindo Vega, minister of work;René Cornejo, housing; Carlos Paredes, transport; Francisco Eguigurenm, justice; José Luis Silva...
...Mr Favre’s experience – he worked closely with the campaign that carried former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to victory – helped him turn a radical ally of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez...
...Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru’s Nobel laureate, had called on voters to back former president Alejandro Toledo to avoid an Humala-Fujimori run-off, which he said would be a “catastrophe” for the Andean nation...
...Ollanta Humala, a nationalist who has sought to cast himself as a moderate leftist in the style of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won 29.8 per cent of the vote....
...Mr Humala is now taking his cues from the successful Brazilian-style left of former president Luiz Inacio da Silva, promising to protect investors’ rights, and going so far as to tell Mr Chavez to butt out...
...The jostling among the three candidates locked in a tie behind Mr Humala – Ms Fujimori, former president Alejandro Toledo and former finance minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, or “PPK” – has been intense....
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