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...Ronald Ojeda, a 32-year-old former lieutenant in Venezuela’s military, had been living in exile in Santiago de Chile since 2017 — until he was found dead on Friday, 10 days after he was abducted....
...Privately, other business leaders warn Milei, a former television commentator, may lack capacity to govern....
...Two scoops to start, first: Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javid as potential candidates for its next chair when José Viñals steps down....
...“The first thing that needs to happen in Ecuador is that the violence ends,” said José Castillo, a 30-year-old music producer in Quito who plans to vote for González....
...The bombs in Quito exploded outside the former and current offices of the country’s national prison agency....
...Felipe González, a former Socialist prime minister, said it is not. José María Aznar, a former centre-right prime minister, said it would amount to “an operation to dismantle the constitution”....
...They included Sandra Torres, a former first lady, and Zury Ríos, the daughter of the country’s former dictator....
...José Antonio Cadiz, a 19-year-old health worker, marched clutching a replica kidney in his hand. “That’s all we Venezuelans have to eat,” he said. “Offal.”...
...“Retail investors have been conditioned to invest into growth categories,” said Jose Torres, senior economist at brokerage IBKR....
...Maduro said he had been joined in the meeting by his wife Cilia Flores, a lawyer and congresswoman, and Jorge Rodríguez, head of the Venezuelan congress and Maduro’s former vice-president....
...Other Florida Hispanics, like Lilian Rodriguez, were unbothered by the episode. Rodriguez came from Cuba on a boat with her mother when she was four, fleeing the Castro regime....
...José R Cárdenas, a former US government official and expert on Latin America, said the Biden team had “been looking for a pretext to go in a new direction on US-Venezuela relations and they found that pretext...
...“There are two candidates, from two extremes . . . coming in after the weakest government Chile has had since our return to democracy [in 1990],” José De Gregorio, professor of economics and a former central...
...The new foreign minister will be José Manuel Albares, a former Sanchez adviser who currently serves as ambassador to France, and who prides himself on his diplomatic experience and closeness to the prime...
...They fell out after Rodríguez Rivas turned against Stalin. Years later, Guzmán was ambushing army patrols while his former mentor lectured at the Center of Higher Military Studies....
...Trump is campaigning there for Max Miller, one of his former advisers who launched a primary challenge against Republican congressman Anthony Gonzalez....
...But La Graciosa dodged them all and instead remains a no-frills access spot to the wonders of nature, appreciated particularly by the Spanish cognoscenti: former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
...“They won’t help us — they’re the same ones who are involved,” scoffs Reyna Rodríguez Peñuelas, whose son, Eduardo González Rodríguez, disappeared in 2016....
...Olivier Blanchard, former IMF chief economist, who is unconcerned about possible inflationary effects, went on the record to correct Schäuble....
...‘Our president is no use’ José, 50, says he will always be a supporter of Fidel Castro but he is hungry....
...He speaks English, he looks good, people respect him more than [former Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez] Zapatero, but Pedro is very radical . . ....
...The quote offers a clue to Soriot’s state of mind after a week of coping with a crushing constellation of troubles — from the death on Sunday of his close friend and lieutenant, cancer specialist José Baselga...
...chief, José Antonio González Anaya....
...Former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, invited by Mr Maduro to observe the election, urged the EU and US to rethink their strategy in light of Donald Trump’s exit from the White House...
...Iberdrola also hired José Manuel Villarejo, a former police commissioner now imprisoned pending trial on allegations of operating a criminal organisation, for services including private detective work....
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