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...Jhan Carlos Moreno, who spent 21 years in the insurgency, likens reintegration to “being dropped on the beaches of Normandy without weapons or leadership”....
...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...
...The painter Alvaro Casanova built a castle with a drawbridge and turrets, which fired a cannon every day at noon. The spirit of innovation continues....
...Rafael Correa anointed Lenín Moreno to be the next president of Ecuador. Alvaro Uribe pushed Iván Duque to the fore in Colombia....
...Colombia’s ambassador to Washington is Francisco Santos, a former vice-president under Alvaro Uribe....
...For rightwing candidate Iván Duque, who heads polls with about a third of the potential vote, the arrest on April 9 was proof of what his mentor and former president Álvaro Uribe has long claimed: that the...
...These range from implementing Colombia’s controversial 2016 peace process with Marxist Farc guerrillas, to Venezuela’s crisis, and the fate of Mr Duque’s political mentor — the polarising figure of Álvaro...
...Mr Moreno Ocampo, who as an internationalist jurist has seen several peace accords, insists the “unique” deal must go ahead....
...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....
...While Santos, who avoided endorsing any candidates, emerged as one of the day’s big winners, former president Álvaro Uribe and his “U” party took a beating....
...For Luis Alberto Moreno, head of the Inter-American Development Bank, the biggest risks facing Brazil are “complacency and hubris”. For the moment, optimists appear to have the upper hand....
...“Lately, we’ve seen a lot of Brazilians coming to Peru to try and poach our expertise,” says Alvaro Correa, Credicorp’s chief financial officer. That is not surprising....
...Álvaro Uribe Vélez and his wife Lina Moreno flinched at the blasts and continued into Congress. There, on August 6 2002, Mr Uribe donned the presidential sash for the first time....
...Marulanda’s death represents the latest setback for Farc, which has been on the defensive since the conservative President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002....
...But President Álvaro Uribe – who, like Lula, is midway through his second consecutive term – last week announced plans to cut spending by US$834m....
...Remember, both President Evo Morales and his deputy Álvaro Garcia Liñera are self-professed pacifists....
...The desertion of Nelly Avila Moreno, aka “Karina”, a renowned Farc commander, is a case in point....
...The Democratic Pole´s Samuel Moreno won in Bogotá, but the party secured only one more governorship than in 2003. The Liberal Party performed even worse, losing six governors and 22 of its mayors....
...Interior Trade Minister Guillermo Moreno has had the job of managing price controls for the past year, but signs are beginning to emerge that he may be relaxing his grip....
...Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, made his priorities clear last year when shortly after taking up the job he threw the bank’s weight behind a new policy designed to...
...Uribe meets Bush Presidents Álvaro Uribe and George W Bush will have cause for modest celebration when they met at the US leader’s ranch in Crawford, Texas on Thursday....
...A decisive triumph for Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, defeat for Ollanta Humala in Peru, and in Mexico right-winger Felipe Calderón edging ahead in the polls ahead of July's election....
...Such was Mr Moreno's perceived value that Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's current president, retained him as ambassador in Washington after Mr Moreno had served as Colombia's most important diplomat during the...
...Even Alvaro Garcia Linera, the vice-president-elect, admits Mr Morales “is a charismatic leader who makes most decisions himself”....
...Mr Moreno must win a majority both among shareholders and individual country members in an election due take place on July 27....
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