Hints and tips:
...From Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa to Honduras’ Xiomara Castro, they hope to ape the Salvadoran millennial’s success in cracking down on violent crime....
...the sage counsel that Deas, who has died in Oxford at the age of 82, gave as tutor and then adviser to multiple Latin Americanists and diplomats, some spies and several Colombian presidents — including Álvaro...
...Letter in response to this article: Questions for Colombia’s comeback candidate / From Iván Castro-Campos, Frankfurt am Main, Germany...
...Repression is not in our nature,” Álvaro García Linera, Bolivia’s vice-president, told the Financial Times....
...Álvaro García Linera, Mr Morales’ vice-president who resigned along with him on Sunday, was apocalyptic, saying that in a Bolivia without his boss, “there will be weeping and the sun will hide, the moon...
...It also led to a controversial US-backed counter-insurgency led by President Álvaro Uribe, called Plan Colombia....
...Abroad, that won him a Nobel Peace Prize, but at home critics panned it as a sellout to socialist “Castro-Chavistas”, inflaming old divisions that have now produced a poisonous presidential race....
...“No to a second Venezuela [here],” says Mr Uribe, who claims that leftist candidates will drive Colombia into a “Castro-Chavista” abyss. The Colombian economy is also just emerging from recession....
...proposing with his plans to overturn the country’s reliance on hydrocarbons — a policy that is resonating with young voters, unnerving investors and that opponents call a half-baked idea typical of a “Castro-Chavista...
...Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his political nemesis Álvaro Uribe met on Wednesday in a bid to save a peace deal with the hemisphere’s oldest Marxist insurgency....
...In the recent referendum campaign Mr Uribe labelled Mr Santos a “Castro-Chavista” and Farc as “narco-terrorists”....
...The negotiations are launched in Norway and continue in Havana, under the auspice of Cuban President Raúl Castro (centre) Aug 24 2016 Colombia’s government and Farc leaders announce a historic peace accord...
...Raúl Castro, Santos and the narcoterrorist guerrillas are the ones that have been defeated.”...
...Cuban President Raúl Castro and Norway’s foreign minister Børge Brende will attend the ceremony, as will UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon....
...Opposition is led by Álvaro Uribe, the former president, who fought the Farc while in office and is one of the most vitriolic critics of the peace process....
...Indeed, Diez says a “turning point” was reached in relations with foreign miners in July, when Alvaro García Linera, the vice-president, publicly ruled out any state grab for San Cristóbal....
...He had many reasons to throw himself into the arms of Fidel Castro....
...“This scandal has contributed greatly to the fall in the popularity of the president,” says Senator Álvaro Dias, of the opposition PSDB, who is participating in one of the congressional inquiries into the...
...Juanita León, journalist When Colombia’s constitutional court struck down a challenge to the law preventing Álvaro Uribe, the popular former president, from running for a third term, the scoop went to a...
...Indeed, while once considered by many to be a communist and a supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he was also known for his criticism of the left....
...By 2002, when Álvaro Uribe took office, Farc was lobbing mortar shells into downtown Bogotá and the country was sometimes called a “nearly-failed” state....
...When Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president, travelled to Cuba in March, it was ostensibly to visit Raúl Castro to discuss the Caribbean island’s participation in the Summit of the Americas, which he was...
...Like García Márquez, Mr Vargas Llosa started out as a supporter of leftist leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro....
...Mr Chávez, who takes advice from his ally Fidel Castro, saw all this coming long ago....
...President Raúl Castro of Cuba was among the participants who applauded the bloc’s creation with enthusiasm....
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