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...I also saw Emilio Botín, the chieftain of Spanish bank Santander, blow a kiss at Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president. The FT wrote reams of copy probing these themes....
...A few years ago he went to Cuba to interview Raúl Castro, and also visited Venezuela several times, where he struck up a friendship with the late Hugo Chávez....
...Mexico’s oil output has fallen by 25 per cent over the past eight years, and Emilio Lozoya, the chief executive of Pemex, sees foreign investment as the way to turn that round....
...One possibility for both groups is neighbouring Venezuela, although they may wait until the political movement of Hugo Chávez, the late president, loses power....
...Emilio Álvarez Serrano, an oncologist at the Red Cross hospital in Caracas, questions whether that is the case. “It’s just speculation but the most likely scenario is that Chávez has prostate cancer....
...Mr Pérez was awaiting the decision in Miami with his brother and fellow executive César and columnist Emilio Palacio....
...Emilio Odebrecht, leader of one of Brazil’s largest conglomerates and its biggest construction company, may have wanted to raise the small matter of an $800m debt that Venezuela has with his company, Odebrecht...
...Mr Correa, a close ally of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, personally attended court hearings in the case in the coastal city of Guayaquil....
...The lottery of 100 three-bedroom homes, funded by Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s leftist president, is part of a well-worn strategy....
...“Brazil is in fashion now, although it wasn’t always so,” says Emilio Botín, chairman of Spain’s Banco Santander . In the 1980s and 1990s the country mostly funded itself externally, in dollars....
...In a further move, which US diplomats said was unrelated, Washington designated Ramon Emilio Rodriguez Chacín, Venezuela’s minister of the interior until this week, under drugs legislation for allegedly...
...The officials included two of Venezuela’s national intelligence chiefs and Ramón Emilio Rodríguez Chacín, who served as Venezuela’s minister of interior and justice until last week....
...Hugo Chávez, the populist Venezuelan president, has moved to take control of “strategic” parts of the economy, including Banco de Venezuela, owned by Santander....
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