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...“We’re living through what Colombians lived through in the 80s with Pablo Escobar,” said Angel Merchano, a security guard in Quito. “The police and the army need to be better armed....
...Fernando Villavicencio, the first candidate to declare his intention to run, said tackling well-financed mafias would be his core message....
...“Petro might say his policies are A, B and C but that doesn’t mean he can deliver on them,” says Luis Fernando Mejía, director of economic think-tank Fedesarrollo....
...Manuela D’Ávila, the running mate of Fernando Haddad, the presidential candidate of the disgraced leftist Workers’ Party, this week filed a complaint with Brazil’s top electoral court after receiving attacks...
...“Colombia is a paradise for lawyers,” says Fernando Carrillo, the state ombudsman....
...While Pablo Escobar tours are popular with young backpackers, the locals I meet shudder at the mention of his name....
...and a bloodstained tile from the roof on which he was shot; and the Museo Botero, which contains not only the magnificent art collection of Fernando Botero, Colombia’s most famous artist, but also scores...
...One of them is Pedro Escobar, a frequent actor in Mr Gutiérrez’s films. “We all come from the same story here,” says Mr Escobar....
...As Botero depicted on canvas, the drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed on the Medellín rooftops in 1993....
...Although drug kingpins still exist, they are less conspicuous than in the times of Pablo Escobar’s hippos, and legitimate fortunes are on the rise....
...Fernando Vallejo’s Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) and Laura Restrepo’s Delirium (2004) have already covered this troubled period....
...The museum’s main collection was donated in stages by possibly Latin America’s most famous artist, Medellín-born Fernando Botero, who was 80 this year....
...“Provisions are very high, banks are well capitalised, and overdue debt is less than in other Latin American countries,” says José Fernando Restrepo, head of research at Interbolsa, a local brokerage....
...Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist, has a show of Abu Ghraib paintings opening at the Marlborough Gallery’s Manhattan branch on October 18....
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