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...In what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat, Mr Duterte in December said of the Lopez family’s stake in ABS-CBN: “If I were you, I’d sell it.”...
...I’m truly worried.”...
...After the long meal, Juan Manuel Santos was set to go to bed and read a relaxing memoir of family history, when Enrique Peña Nieto insisted that everyone stay “for just one more drink” (I remember that Peña...
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...How will he succeed where outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto has failed?...
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...But now, “I’d prefer a president who doesn’t kill us”....
...I happen to think it is better to know things than not to.”...
...Still, everything Chávez said even then centred around his strength, himself. He said ‘I’, ‘I’, ‘I’ a lot. You see some of that in Trump.”...
...I skimmed 20 per cent.” The third says: “See that motorway?” “What motorway?” his colleagues reply. “Quite,” he replies. “I took 100 per cent.” Is more money being stolen now? It can appear that way....
...Obviously the former bus driver’s one-on-one with Pope Francis I was a highlight, but so was his announcement that he intends to buy “various” airplanes from Airbus....
...“Maduro is inheriting a tough situation, I don’t think anyone would deny that,” said Steve Ellner, a historian at Venezuela’s University of the East....
...“But I think it’s a pretty close second.”...
...I’m referring, of course, to Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s putative president-elect, and Henrique Capriles, the challenger in Venezuela’s presidential election in October....
...“I don’t think even Chinese companies are looking at Argentina,” said Mr Warren. “I was told on a recent visit to Beijing that they didn’t look favourably on what happened to YPF.”...
...As Damian Fraser, head of equities for Latin America at UBS in Mexico City, told beyondbrics: “When I phone up investors to talk about the election, I get a big yawn”....
...I had to start again from scratch, and have to work now as if I were 46,” says the 66-year-old lawyer about the Sandinista government that ruled the Central American country during the 1980s....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, faces a close election in October, and does not want to be seen aiding international terrorists, as he has been accused of before....
...FT: Is Mr Chávez [Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela] still your “new best friend”? JMS: Mr Chávez is the president of the country with which we have more than 1,200km of very active border....
...Two years ago Repsol sold a 15 per cent stake to local businessman Enrique Eskenazi, who has an option on a further 10 per cent....
...“The well-to-do still can’t get to their fincas on the weekend,” quips Enrique Santos, a well-known columnist....
...Carlos Enrique Reina, his private secretary, told journalists that soldiers took Mr Zelaya to his house outside the capital before moving him to an air force base....
...And Hector Enrique calls out: “Lots of praise for the goal. But after that pass I gave him, if he hadn’t scored he should have been killed!” Everyone laughs....
...Mr Ortega has, however, also embraced Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s recently re-elected president, who regularly trades barbs with Washington....
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