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...“Ecuador is not prepared for this violence, and the security forces and the general population don’t know how to react,” said María Teresa Escobar, who runs the political website Primicias....
...Like millions of Salvadorans, chauffeur Ricardo López has spent the past few weeks trying to get his head around bitcoin....
...At the same time, Mr López Obrador has sought to refocus the fight against the drug trade....
...Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is reportedly considering appointing independent and respected economist Jonathan Heath to the board of the central bank when a seat comes vacant later...
...Colombia is now churning out more coke than during the “Narcos” days of Pablo Escobar. UNODC’s best guess is 1,379 tonnes a year, almost a third more than in 2016....
...But the peace attempt fails December 1993 Pablo Escobar, at the time the world’s biggest drug lord, is killed by Colombian security forces in Medellín August 1998-February 2002 President Andrés Pastrana...
...As Botero depicted on canvas, the drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed on the Medellín rooftops in 1993....
...* Giants at the Gate, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Edhece Business School; Ludovic Phalippou, University of Amsterdam Business School and Oxford University; Oliver Gottschalg, HEC Paris...
...The most widely used measuring system was compiled in 1998 by economists Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny, and is known as the LLSV index....
...Florencio Lopez de Silanes, a professor of finance and economics at Yale as well as a consultant to the IMF and World Bank on issues of corporate governance, is on leave of absence....
...“As the business is so profitable, one could expect producers to adjust their margins,” says Andres Lopez, a professor at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá who has studied apparent trends in the drugs trade...
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