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...She assumed office in December 2022 following the removal and imprisonment of Pedro Castillo, who had attempted to close congress and rule by decree....
...“All kinds of things happen here: weddings, parties, ballroom dancing,” she says. “It’s the heart of Madrid . . ....
...None of Argentina’s 23 powerful regional governors are from his party....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...“For now I think Peru Libre (Castillo’s party) will support her, but when the first frictions emerge, let’s see whether they continue to back her.”...
...When opposition lawmakers — largely from rightwing parties — launched proceedings last week, they accused him of “permanent moral incapacity”....
...Lawmakers from ousted leftwing president Pedro Castillo’s Peru Libre party have refused to support any changes that do not open the door to drafting a new constitution....
...There's the union v independence tactical voting, and then there's the anti-Tory tactical voting. And the two do not necessarily align. So the question is, what is the emotion, which is......
...Boluarte has emerged from the same political project as Castillo, as both once belonged to the Marxist Perú Libre party....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...Nadhim Zahawi, chair of the UK Conservative party, is due to publish his memoirs later this year....
...There were further wobbles when it was discovered that she would be arriving with Óscar Garcia Maceiras, a new and largely unknown CEO....
...“It’s not whether he’ll be impeached but when,” said Denisse Rodríguez-Olivari, a Peruvian political scientist. “That’s the question....
...“All this is a fight within the Republican party: who is more in the media, DeSantis or Trump?” Other Florida Hispanics, like Lilian Rodriguez, were unbothered by the episode....
...Keiko Fujimori, who lost June’s bitterly fought knife-edge election run-off, finally accepted defeat last week, 44 days after the vote in which she accused Castillo’s party of fraud....
...Free Peru, Castillo’s party, is led by a Marxist advocating nationalisation, higher taxes, a new constitution and a curb on imports in one of the world’s biggest producers of copper, zinc and precious metals...
...remains a largely unknown quantity....
...“They have a socialist agenda, they talk a lot about the colonialism of the US and the OAS [Organisation of American States],” said Denisse Rodríguez-Olivari, a Peruvian social scientist....
...In any case, the mastermind of the campaign is not Pedro Castillo but [the head of his party] Vladimir Cerrón, who is super-radical . . ....
...More loans were allegedly given by Cox & Kings to V Hotels, a struggling beachfront property bought by Peter and Urrshila’s father, Ajit, in 2001....
...In a crisis of this kind where so much is unknown, you may well need strong government action. But you also need open debate....
...“He was an unknown . . . There [was] no history, no track record....
...Mr Lauder, who in 1989 ran against Rudy Giuliani in the Republican party’s New York mayoral primary race and is close to members of the Trump administration, wants to keep the test....
...He argues that such events are generally much harder for the incumbent, whose party has a record in power to defend....
...After the meeting, some of those present received text messages from unknown numbers threatening “the safety and security of our families”, they told me....
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