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...Two other former presidents of Peru, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, are both facing charges of receiving bribes from the company, while Alan García — who governed the country from 2006 until 2011...
...The elegant Garnacha from Bodegas Ziríes near Toledo has liquorice hints that blend well with the earthiness of the squid ink....
...Garcia was in third place at 19.3 per cent. But Garcia benefited as ballots went through the ranked choice process....
...They are García, Mr Kuczynski, Alberto Fujimori, Alejandro Toledo and Ollanta Humala who, between them, ruled Peru for 33 consecutive years until last year....
...A third, Alejandro Toledo, is on the run in the US where he spent a night in a police cell last month for being drunk in public....
...The country’s last four presidents — Mr Kuczynski, Ollanta Humala, Alan García and Alejandro Toledo — have all been investigated for alleged links to the disgraced Brazilian construction company, which has...
...The move means that the last five former Peruvian presidents have either served jail time for corruption (Alberto Fujimori) or are under investigation for it (Mr García, Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala...
...Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was taken into custody; Ollanta Humala is awaiting trial; Alejandro Toledo was arrested in the US and is resisting extradition, and Mr García killed himself in April as the police were...
...Three other former Peruvian presidents — Alejandro Toledo, Alan García and Ollanta Humala — are also being investigated for alleged corruption....
...However, Yolanda González Sánchez, head of studies at the Federico García Lorca de las Rozas secondary school in Madrid, says: “Ninety per cent of the faculty have done a course in robotics and it is applied...
...The kickbacks allegedly stretched over three administrations, including those of Mr Toledo, Mr García and Ollanta Humala. Mr García is in Madrid and has denied involvement....
...There has also been a serious impact in Peru, where the Odebrecht scandal has implicated the three most recent administrations of Alejandro Toledo, Alan García and Ollanta Humala, while the central bank...
...Former President Alan García, who ran again on Sunday, once slammed him for not having “a single gram of Peruvian blood. He has Polish, Jewish, French, but Peruvian zero”....
...Because the mountain range has the bureaucratic misfortune to find itself in three different Spanish provinces (Madrid, Ávila and Toledo), as well as in three different Spanish autonomous communities or...
...While you wait for Turkish Midnight Madness, here’s an excerpt from a 2010 paper by Camilo E Tovar: Public authorities tend to resist sharp depreciations in their economy’s exchange rate, presumably because...
...However, in the best tradition of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, Colombia remains a place of contradictions and surprises....
...Former Peruvian president Alan García, whose American Popular Revolutionary Party (APRA) is poorly represented in the current Congress, likened the appointments to a “self-coup”, a reference to Peru’s 1992...
...Successive Peruvian presidents – Alejandro Toledo, Alan Garcia and now Humala, despite early fears he might lurch to a protectionist stance – have aggressively pursued bilateral trade deals and pushed for...
...Although Humala’s popularity rating has fallen for three months in a row to 40 per cent, that is still ahead of where former president Garcia was one year into office (32 per cent) and former president Toledo...
...García also called in troops to quell protests, sometimes with disastrous results, such as the 2009 protest near Bagua in which 34 people died....
...former president Alejandro Toledo, will be production minister....
...The president-elect hails from an ultranationalist family and another brother, Antauro, is in prison for a failed rebellion against former president Alejandro Toledo....
...The initiative dates back to 2005 under former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was his Brazilian counterpart. It continued under Peru’s next president, Alan García....
...Significantly, Mr Humala appears to have widened his support base since 2006, when he narrowly lost to current president Alan Garcia....
...Mr Humala has toned down his rhetoric since 2006, when he lost the presidential race to Alan Garcia amid talk of nationalising strategic sectors and ending US-backed coca eradication programmes....
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