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...I will often start my visits around here at the impressive Álvaro Alcázar, which specialises in paintings, sculptures and works in paper by contemporary Spanish artists....
...Foreign minister Alvaro Leyva said that the opposition leader had entered the country “inappropriately.”...
...“Specialised national police units remain active and are investigating,” said interior minister Juan Zapata in posts on social media on Thursday....
...Another candidate, Daniel Noboa, the son of banana magnate Álvaro Noboa, said on Thursday that his motorcade had come under fire. Interior minister Juan Zapata later said Noboa was not targeted....
...In February, he paid an additional €4.4m in back taxes relating to private jet travel provided by the Zagatka Foundation, a Liechtenstein-based entity controlled by his distant cousin Alvaro de Orléans-Borbón...
...Letter in response to this report: Chile-US tax treaty could boost key lithium projects / From Juan Ignacio Lagos, Tax Lawyer, Santiago, Chile...
...“We’ve had takeovers before in Colombia but the difference this time is that they’re hostile, and they’re big,” said Juan Camilo Jiménez, head of equities at Credicorp Capital in Bogotá....
...However, Juan Carlos Restrepo, a former national security adviser and intelligence chief, said such a move would be a mistake....
...Three years after Chavéz came to power, Colombia elected the hawkish rightwing president Álvaro Uribe, who cracked down on leftwing guerrilla groups that had Chavez’s support....
...There was a terrible cost in human rights abuses but Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe’s successor, signed a deal with the Farc in 2016....
...It is also a setback for many of the international backers of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who the US recognises as the country’s legitimate interim president....
...Until now, the conservatives have relied on the popularity of former president Álvaro Uribe to drum up support for their cause, but his star is waning....
...However, in an interview last year with the El País newspaper Alvaro de Orléans-Borbón, Juan Carlos’s cousin, said that the “many” flights paid for by the Zagatka Foundation lasted between 2007 and 2018....
...“What there is in Honduras is a pact promoted by political parties not to touch each other,” said Juan Jiménez Mayor, who led the MACCIH from 2016-18....
...During his two terms as president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe was the US’s closest ally in Latin America, railing against the revolutionary socialist government in neighbouring Venezuela....
...There was no second referendum, and those who voted No — led by the country’s combative former president and scourge of the Farc, Álvaro Uribe — have always felt their opinion was ignored....
...That happened in Colombia, where Juan Manuel Santos broke with his mentor Álvaro Uribe, and more recently in Ecuador, where current president Lenín Moreno has fallen out in spectacular style with Rafael...
...Here too were surprises and delights — none greater than the Ifergan Collection, opened in 2018 by businessman Vicente Jiménez Ifergan....
...Since the start of the year it has recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the head of Congress, as the president’s temporary replacement....
...“Maduro is a dictator,” he says, reiterating his support for Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader whose bold bid this year to oust Mr Maduro through a popular uprising has so far failed....
...The peace deal with the Farc was agreed in 2016 by then-president Juan Manuel Santos....
...Unlike Maduro, the parliamentary assembly, including Juan Guaidó have a democratic mandate from Venezuelan citizens.”...
...The air was filled with roses, the hum of laughter broken by the rapid beat of the greatest dancer of them all – Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito” – who took to the floor with a click...
...The government of then-president Juan Manuel Santos made minor amendments and controversially pushed the deal through parliament....
...The flower displays are wilting at the Casa de Nariño palace in Bogotá where, after two terms as president, Juan Manuel Santos is in a reflective mood on the divided Colombia he will leave behind after it...
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