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...I admire the fine insouciance with which Hugo Chávez treated the business of choosing a book for Barack Obama....
...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....
...Relations between Mexico and its largest trading partner, the US, are in tatters following the humiliations inflicted during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto by President Donald Trump....
...How will he succeed where outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto has failed?...
...Although a one-time admirer of such US-friendly figures as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, he is not really like either of these socialist revolutionaries....
...A revision of the structural reforms undertaken by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto....
...I doubt that he is Mexico’s Hugo Chavez, so suspect that a victory for him would create an opportunity to buy, much as Lula's victory did. I also have a hunch that he may not win....
...The enthusiastic reception for Mr Macri combined with the presence of Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto — fresh from the “three amigos” summit in Canada with Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau which urged stronger...
...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.”...
...something Mexican officials say is impossible — he looks set, sooner or later, to follow in the footsteps of other notorious capos including former Gulf cartel boss Osiel “Friend Killer” Cárdenas, and Edgar...
...Such considerations may not be a pressing concern for Mr Peña Nieto. Three years, after all, is a long time in politics....
...Still, a spur to progress is the fear that a backlash could otherwise bring to power populists promising to end corruption — just as Chávez did....
...unpatrolledThe apparent murder of 43 students has turned Mexico into a tinderbox of volatile and increasingly violent protests, as scandal fuels a sense of things spinning out of control for President Enrique Peña Nieto...
...His death sparked several bloody power struggles, including with former ally Edgar Valdez Villarreal, who is also now in jail....
...On a visit to Spain this month, Mr Peña Nieto urged businesses to “invest and grow with Mexico”....
...There, Ms Hernández noted, he will be in the company of other drug bosses, including Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the head of the Zetas who was captured last year; Edgar Valdez Villareal, the drugs boss...
...“There are enough molecules in Mexico to produce more than 4m barrels of oil per day and 10bn cubic feet of gas per day,” says Edgar Rangel, another CNH commissioner....
...In Nicolas Maduro’s latest attempt to mimic his peripatetic predecessor, Hugo Chavez, he is touring the “Old Continent”, stopping off in France on Wednesday after visits to Portugal and Italy earlier this...
...constitution to allow international companies to work openly as partners in all parts of the business, from exploration to refining, is therefore a symbol of modernisation under President Enrique Peña Nieto...
...In Venezuela, the late Hugo Chávez grasped strategic assets to propagate his Bolivarian revolution. Bolivia and Ecuador followed his cue....
...As Venezuela's Hugo Chávez departs the scene, Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's new president, is promising structural reforms but can they stimulate real wages, which have stagnated for more than a decade?...
...collapse five years ago. http://on.ft.com/XAcPU0 Mexican peso hits 19 month high Signs that the US is emerging from the financial turmoil in better shape than Europe, a strong move by President Enrique Peña Nieto...
...President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office in December, is expected to propose a change to the country’s constitution, which currently forbids foreign companies from owning any Mexican oil reserves, to...
...Caracas is plastered with posters of a remarkably-healthy looking Hugo Chávez given his cancer (although Mr Chávez claims he is fully cured.)....
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