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...The scandal came to the fore after Luis Ricardo Miranda, chief of the ministry’s import division, highlighted alleged irregularities in invoices....
...Davi Tangerino, a professor of criminal law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, said Aras could request the case be closed for lack of evidence, expand the investigation or pursue a complaint against the president...
...Mr Miranda said the solution was to use technology to grow and attract more customers....
...Lots of companies will fail, lots of people will be unemployed,” warned Luana Miranda, a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Economics....
...Subsequently photographed with Presidents François Mitterrand, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and (not least) Fidel Castro, he was now a wealthy man with seven homes in five countries....
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...Yet intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Mario Vargas Llosa broke with Havana from the late 1960s onwards over increasing repression and censorship....
...The toreador, we learn, is actually a boxer, El Niño, who happens to have been a friend of Fidel Castro. Revolution is most definitely in the air....
...Latin American novelists like Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes; British writers such as Harold Pinter and Anthony Sampson; and, at one 1982 dinner, the Iron Lady herself....
...“All of this will be gone in minutes, so I’d rather stay the night out than be hungry the rest of the week,” says Magali Vargas, visibly tired at dawn....
...We won in all the Andean states, in all the north coast except Miranda, in all the plain states,” he said....
...Indeed, while once considered by many to be a communist and a supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he was also known for his criticism of the left....
...On this regard, we also expect for the opposition to remain united and concentrated on the figure of Henrique Capriles, the former presidential candidate and re-elected governor of Miranda as the person...
...He was showered with acclaim but, unlike García Márquez and Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize for literature eluded him....
...Henrique Capriles, 39, governor of Miranda, was the frontrunner with a lead of up to 20 percentage points over another governor, Pablo Perez, 42, and three other candidates....
...Besides the neo-nazis and a Stalinist communist party there is Syriza, whose leader is a fan of Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez....
...García Márquez, even amid the twilight of the Cuban revolution, remains if not an apologist for Fidel Castro, a faithful friend....
...Like García Márquez, Mr Vargas Llosa started out as a supporter of leftist leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro....
...Like many of his Latin American contemporaries, including Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez, he was an early supporter of left-wing regimes such as Fidel Castro’s, in Cuba....
...Ariel Vargas, Venezuelan Embassy charge d’affaires, told reporters outside the embassy in Tegucigalpa that the expulsion order “does not exist for us, because the Micheletti government does not exist....
...He may never recover, and it’ll be downhill for us from there on,” says Henry Osorio, one of the Petare voters who has remained loyal to the man who calls Cuba’s Fidel Castro his father and mentor....
...Senorita Chiquita bore a close resemblance to Carmen Miranda, the Brazilian entertainer who, in her ”tutti-frutti” hat, wowed Hollywood at the time. Sales soon regained prewar levels....
...Vilma Gonzalez, a single mother from Petare, a poor barrio of Caracas, is as thankful to Fidel Castro as she is to Hugo Ch?...
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