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...Dos Santos drew his power from a parallel system based on securocrats and Sonangol, building what Paula Cristina Roque, an analyst of his rule, has called a securitised “shadow” state that crushed any potential...
...Jean-Michel brought the subject up with Argentina’s then-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, when they met that month in Paris....
...The country’s economic straits mean that “these are existential elections for Angola”, said Paula Cristina Roque, an independent analyst....
...But solely online interactions surely miss something important, argues Cristina Criddle. The reinvention of Goldman Sachs: what has David Solomon achieved?...
...“It’s a business with potentially better economics because of higher tickets and more regular purchases,” said Cristina Alvarenga, head of the operation there....
...Cristina Burelli, an adviser at non-governmental group SOS Orinoco, says the “natural exit route for some of that gold is through Brazil. We know that garimpeiros are coming over from Brazil....
...Designer Cristina Celestino, for instance, has transformed traditional tiles into striking architectural details and bas reliefs....
...Standing beside her small stationery kiosk in one of São Paulo’s sprawling shopping centres, Ana Cristina Santos is savouring the festive rush. “Business has been really good for Christmas....
...Portugal is good value for money compared with Spain, says Cristina Santos of agency Engel & Völkers....
...The consensual Juan Manuel Santos has been replaced by centre-right president Iván Duque....
...Paula Cristina Roque, a political analyst, says: “The MPLA is worried. José dos Santos wants to be seen as the man who brought peace. But there was no peace dividend.”...
...Maria Cristina dos Santos, sister of the man who was arrested, cries in anger....
...This could further complicate the legal situation of Cristina Kirchner and many of her former top cabinet members....
...Of the so-called “pink tide” of leftwing leaders that washed over South America this century, Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Cristina Fernández in Argentina have been respectively expelled and voted out of...
...The case has since been a political minefield for Cristina Fernández, the president....
...“If the government intervenes this time it would be a very bad sign not only for the company but for the country,” says Catarina Pedrosa at Brazil’s Espírito Santo Investment Bank....
...First, Santos is in good company....
...In Colombia, at the other end of the political spectrum, former president Álvaro Uribe has spent much of his retirement slinging mud at Juan Manuel Santos, the current president, accusing his former defence...
...Business has never been better for Maria Cristina Vicente, who sells homemade lunches to passing lorry drivers at the crowded port of Santos in south-eastern Brazil....
...Even Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, traditionally a strong US ally, said Cuba’s continued exclusion and the US embargo were “unacceptable”....
...Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president and summit host, said pointedly: “We don’t expropriate.”...
...investment banking arm of Banco Espirito Santo, in an interview in Lisbon....
...José Maria Espírito Santo Ricciardi, president and chief executive of the investment banking arm of Banco Espirito Santo (BES), says that Portuguese banks were well provisioned and profitable until the state...
...But Cristina Fernández, fresh from victory in Argentina’s primary election that shows her on course for triumph in October presidential polls, chose to mark the occasion with a news conference....
...Cristina Casalinho, chief economist at Banco BPI, says: “Eça de Queirós was a very cynical and sceptical writer who everyone likes to quote nowadays....
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