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...Albert Calderon, a former BHP executive, expects China’s iron ore miners to survive at the expense of high-cost miners in other countries, including Australia....
...Mr Yeager will retire in July, while Mr Calderón will remain with the company until the middle of next year as an adviser to Mr Mackenzie....
...The brother of Ernesto Samper, president from 1994 to 1998, is Daniel Samper Pizano, one of the country’s best-known columnists....
...More than 34,000 people have died as a result of drugs-related violence since centre- right President Felipe Calderón declared an offensive on organised crime in December 2006....
...The rules change and you adapt,” says Daniel Linsker, a Latin America analyst from Control Risks, the business consultancy....
...timing of the Chinese president’s trip is not yet fixed, but it will be only the third state visit to Washington during Mr Obama’s time in office, following Manmohan Singh, Indian prime minister, and Felipe Calderon...
...In just one day last month, he treated President Felipe Calderón of Mexico to only the second State dinner of his time in the White House – significantly, the first was for Manmohan Singh, Indian prime minister...
...This is bad news for Mr Calderón....
...In a recent interview, Daniel Murguía, president of the local chamber of commerce, told the Financial Times that almost a third of the members who make up the chamber’s council have left in the past year...
...The threats were issued as a response to Mr Calderón’s declaration of war on drug traffickers, he added....
...Mr Obama’s visit to Mexico comes amid calls for the US to increase co-operation with Mr Calderón....
...The pledges follow talks with Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president, during a three-day trip by Mr Obama to Latin America and the Caribbean....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Dombey in Washington...
...That move angered Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president, who told the Financial Times in an interview last week: “Obviously the money is not enough, particularly if the amount is reduced like that.”...
...Mr Castañeda described the fighting as a war of choice for Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president. “The media and everyone else north of the border is saying: ‘Hey, there’s a war going on next door’....
...With the US-led clampdown on Caribbean smuggling routes in the 1980s, and a concerted effort by President Felipe Calderón of Mexico to disrupt the cartels’ routes in his country, there is increasing evidence...
...Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president, has deployed the country’s army in fighting its powerful cartels, but an upsurge of violence has led to 1,881 drug-related murders this year, according to local media...
...Since coming to power in December 2006, Felipe Calderón, the centre-right president, has made the war against organised crime the centrepiece of his administration....
...By last July, six months after President Felipe Calderón sent thousands of troops and federal police into the countryside and on to the streets to fight drugs and organised crime, there were signs that killings...
...Its own significance aside, the bill offers a significant boost for the government of President Felipe Calderón....
...In Nicaragua, even the former Sandinista leader and current leftwing president, Daniel Ortega, last year supported a law that tightened the regulations on abortion....
...“Business sector operatives who deal with money laundering, investments and other business matters for the capos,” are cited by Daniel Lund, a pollster and political analyst with Mund Américas in Mexico...
...There is little doubt that Mr Calderón’s move is clever....
...Ortega’s advance By any standards, the latest twist in Nicaragua’s election drama should have rendered the US speechless: in spite of Washington’s concerted efforts to kill off Daniel Ortega and his leftwing...
...Mr Kirchner is hoping his candidate, Daniel Filmus, education minister, will manage an honourable defeat with around 40 per cent of votes....
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