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...Pablo Alonso, 64, who repairs appliances, said extortion of small businesses was rife in his neighbourhood near the centre of Mexico City....
...“If he’s taking over two-and-a-half years into the president’s administration, Rogelio must know the game plan for public spending very well,” said Alonso Cervera, chief economist for Latin America at Credit...
...“We don’t yet have information on capital flight but all the anecdotal evidence suggests people are looking to get their money out,” said Alonso Segura, a former finance minister....
...Alicia Alonso is everywhere and yet nowhere. Cuba’s prima ballerina assoluta is on the posters for Havana’s 26th international festival of ballet; she is on the programmes....
...“Daniel Ortega can’t govern amid hostility from the US,” says Mr Ramírez....
...The Venezuelan military has long enjoyed a cosy relationship with government, ever since one of its own — Hugo Chávez — rose to power in the late 1990s....
...Ramírez left the US in 1925 to find work on the railroads, but lost his job after the Great Crash four years later....
...Luisa Ortega, who was sacked as attorney-general on Saturday after months of criticising the regime, as well as her husband and leading Socialist party member Germán Ferrer, and former ombudswoman Gabriela Ramírez...
...In Caracas, some cracks have appeared in the Bolivarian façade, constructed by the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez and bolstered with increasing difficulty by Mr Maduro since Mr Chavez’s death in 2013....
...The pragmatic fiery leftwing president was once seen as the regional heir of the late Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez....
...Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela’s then Opec representative, failed in his attempt to cajole influential Gulf producers, and suppliers including Russia and Mexico, to agree to output cuts to prop up the oil price...
...This biennial get-together for the world’s dance community, now in its 24th incarnation, is the continuing legacy of celebrated dancer and Cuban National Ballet founder Alicia Alonso and seeks to set the...
...All that changed with the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, followed by the assumption of direct political as opposed to professional control over the company in 2002....
...Mr Ramírez, who will become foreign minister, was seen as the figurehead of a pragmatic faction within the government, whereas Mr Maduro has remained staunchly loyal to his predecessor Chávez....
...Venezuelan bond prices (which move inversely to yield – see chart above) continued to fall after Maduro’s announcements on Tuesday night, which saw Ramírez demoted to foreign minister, and Asdrúbal Chávez...
...Indeed, the ruling party, the PSUV, has been riven by internal struggle since Chávez died....
...Since the late President Hugo Chávez died last year, not only has the economy deteriorated but economic attitudes have soured....
...It seems not, even if those were the words Venezuela’s foreign minister, Rafael Ramírez, penned in a statement this month....
...Economists say at the heart of Venezuela’s economic woes are stringent currency controls, first imposed by Mr Chávez in 2003....
...When Ollanta Humala became president in 2011, many feared he was a Hugo Chávez in waiting; but Castilla’s appointment as finance minister gave them comfort....
...Related reading: Reform drive puts strain on Chávez legacy, FT Venezuela’s Maduro: ideologue or reformer?...
...Alonso Segura, Mr Castilla’s replacement and his former chief of staff, said Peru’s economy would probably expand by less than 4 per cent this year....
...These include the energy minister and vice-president in charge of the economy, Rafael Ramírez....
...Unease accelerated after economic tsar Rafael Ramírez was demoted to foreign minister as part of last week’s cabinet shuffle....
...The late President Hugo Chávez even called it “a bad business”. But García disagrees with the Comandante....
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