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...Carlos Fernando Galán, a centrist former senator with some opposition support, was elected mayor of Bogotá, considered the country’s second most important political post....
...“Both options generate serious doubts,” said Miguel Carlos Blanco, director at Swiss Medical Group in Argentina....
...In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro has opposed new projects in oil and mining, the mainstay of the economy....
...When Gustavo Petro joined Colombia’s M-19 guerrilla movement in the late 1970s, he assumed the nom de guerre Aureliano in homage to Colonel Aureliano Buendía, a character in Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece...
...However, Juan Carlos Restrepo, a former national security adviser and intelligence chief, said such a move would be a mistake....
...“We don’t want just any type of investment in an energy sector,” said Luis Carlos Reyes, the director of DIAN, Colombia’s tax and customs agency, in an interview with the Financial Times....
...“It takes just one day to destroy a hectare of rainforest with a chainsaw,” Carlos Correa, former environment minister under Duque, told the Financial Times just days after leaving office....
...Now, as western nations consider what to do about Venezuela, Colombia’s newly elected leftwing president Gustavo Petro is trying a different approach....
...That sentiment will be tested in the run-off between millionaire Rodolfo Hernández and the leftwing former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who has proposed an agricultural revolution that will turn Colombia into...
...The leftwing candidate, Gustavo Petro, who came second to Duque four years ago, leads most polls....
...For the past three weeks Gustavo Dudamel has been sitting in a Plexiglas box conducting Verdi’s Il trovatore at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu....
...Jhan Carlos Moreno, who spent 21 years in the insurgency, likens reintegration to “being dropped on the beaches of Normandy without weapons or leadership”....
...We have the largest agricultural trade balance,” says José Carlos Hausknecht of agribusiness consultancy MB Agro Consultoria....
...The US currently has sanctions on 27 Nicaraguans with ties to the Ortega government, including Gustavo Porras, speaker of the National Assembly....
...Carlos Holmes, the defence minister, condemned “a mass act of vandalism and violence”. President Iván Duque said police officers should not all be tarred with the same brush....
...Gustavo Viñales, professor of taxation at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, says it raises only a “tiny amount, about 0.04 per cent of GDP”....
...In particular, the naming of Carlos Zannini, a close ally and former official in the government of Ms Fernández, as attorney-general fuelled concerns about how a barrage of corruption charges against the...
...Carlos Salazar, a former chief executive of Femsa — the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler and owner of Latin America’s biggest network of corner shops, Oxxo — may seem an unlikely champion of the leftist...
...Now I work 12 or 14 hours a day to receive the same amount,” said Gustavo de Abreu, a 32-year-old driver who worked in the chemical industry until he was fired in 2017....
...Gustavo de Hoyos, head of the Coparmex employers’ federation, said it would be “very easy to criminalise a company that made a mistake” and lock up executives in top security jails “as if they belonged to...
...Gustavo de Hoyos, head of the Coparmex business confederation, lamented the minister’s departure....
...“This [reading] was a very big surprise,” said Gustavo Rangel, chief Latin America economist at ING Financial Markets. “It’s all on the back of the Mexican economy....
...“These extreme phenomena are here to stay,” said Gustavo Alanis, head of Cemda, a Latin American environmental group....
...The outcasts Gustavo Bebianno, former secretary-general of the presidency As secretary-general of the presidency, Mr Bebianno was at one time among Mr Bolsonaro’s closest aides....
...In contrast, Gustavo Medeiros, deputy head of research at Ashmore, an emerging markets-focused investment group, points the finger at rising inequality....
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