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...“It was as if he were, I don’t know, the biggest criminal in the world,” Vera’s sister Irma told me. Initially, Vera thought they were there to continue looking for clues....
...“I was watching the news last night and cried,” said Carlos Henrique Jesus Santos, 39, a builder. “The legacy he leaves will be eternal.”...
...For former president and fellow cocoa producer Fradique de Menezes, it is “too sweet”, he chuckles, in a sign of friendly rivalry....
...The peace deal with the Farc was agreed in 2016 by then-president Juan Manuel Santos....
...Last week, in a makeshift courtroom on the 12th floor of a nondescript Bogotá office building, retired army colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón begged for forgiveness....
...His last stop is Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia’s colonial jewel on the Caribbean coast, before returning to the Vatican on Sunday....
...As was Gregorio Santos, the jailed anti-mining former regional governor of the mineral-rich Cajamarca, who bagged 4 per cent of the vote....
...Lesser known, at first, was also his iridescent inner life as the leader of the Céu de Maria church, part of the Santo Daime congregation that treats ayahuasca, a psychedelic Amazonian brew, as a sacrament...
...Even Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, the archbishop of Santo Domingo, said in October that the Constitutional Court’s decision was “absolutely fair”, and told international activists to stay out...
...For Santo Domingo I drive down to NYC, visit with friends and family and then fly direct to Santo Domingo. Those flights are something of a party. What’s the first thing you do when you arrive?...
...It is not clear whether his potential successors, including Luciano Marin, alias Ivan Marquez, Joaquin Gomez, alias Timochenko, or Milton de Jesus Toncel, alias Joaquin Gomez, would favour talks or a resurgence...
...In the name of Jesus, Amen!”...
...Avianca, Colombia’s national airline, was sold in 2004 by the Santo Domingo family to a Brazilian investor – closely followed by their brewery, Bavaria....
...Published in both the pro-opposition Folha de Sao Paulo and the more pro-government O Globo in Rio de Janeiro, Gaspari is an independent and occasionally surreal writer whose encyclopedic knowledge of Brazil...
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