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...He had worked in finance during the George W Bush years, but before then he had helped lead the Clinton administration’s response to the Asian financial crisis....
...Paulo Nogueira Batista, who represents 11 Central and South American countries on the IMF board, said Greece’s political and economic difficulties “confirm some of our worst fears”, adding the fund’s own...
...Qatar’s Al Gharrafa Investment raised its stake last year in Adecoagro, a farmland venture in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay backed by billionaire investor George Soros, while Doha and Abu Dhabi have taken...
...As the show’s second phase begins, the list of artists he has gathered includes Gilbert & George, incongruously here in their stiff suits like firedogs on either side of the grate....
...Nilo Batista, Chevron’s lead criminal lawyer on the case, said: “I’ve never seen anything so hostile and artificial. “Damaging tourism? What do they think we have out there?...
...Hemingway is challenged to a duel, insurrection against the rule of Fulgencio Batista breaks out, and passages of savage fighting are counterpointed by witty, staccato dialogue straight out of golden-era...
...Since 1998, when Hurricanes Georges and Mitch devastated the Caribbean and Castro resolved to train one doctor for every person killed by the storms, Carrizo had been set to work establishing Elam, the...
...In the early hours of New Year’s day 1959, the dictator Fulgencio Batista stole away from Cuba....
...Down the hall might be actors George Raft and Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller, as well as top mafiosi Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky....
...Reporting by Krishna Guha in Washington, George Parker in Brussels, Bertrand Benoit in Berlin and Chris Giles in London...
...The elder George Bush could always count on the Cuban vote....
...These elements also combined to make it a den of regional intrigue, listening post as well as playground for hundreds of international journalists and spies - somewhere between Bogart’s Casablanca and Batista...
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