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...“The exception has become the norm,” says David Lovatón, a constitutional lawyer at the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima....
...That happened in Colombia, where Juan Manuel Santos broke with his mentor Álvaro Uribe, and more recently in Ecuador, where current president Lenín Moreno has fallen out in spectacular style with Rafael...
...The Shape of the Ruins , by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne MacLean, Maclehose Press, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$27 In this gripping novel by one of Colombia’s finest authors, the past weighs heavily...
...“Gustavo Petro has become a political phenomenon,” said Juan Carlos Rodado, director of Latin American research at French investment bank Natixis....
...England’s reprieve came when Mateus Uribe fired against the underside of the bar, whereupon Trippier scored, and then Pickford and Dier secured a historic win....
...Is magical realism not something of a millstone, I ask Juan Gabriel Vásquez, a leading light in the new generation of Colombian novelists?...
...Neither David Cameron, the outgoing UK prime minister, nor Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, had to use a referendum. Yet both decided to do so — despite the risks....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...The All Saints’ Day Lovers, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 The latest offering by Colombia’s Impac Prize-winning author is a collection of short stories mostly...
...This gallery was co-founded in 2003 by Juan Gallo Restrepo to create site-specific exhibitions in forgotten corners of Colombian cities....
...… Six years ago, Oscar Orozco, a businessman from Medellín, won an agreement from Colombia’s then president Álvaro Uribe to turn half of Escobar’s Hacienda Nápoles into a private venture....
...David Bojanini, chief executive, Grupo Sura David Bojanini learnt his craft when he was still in nappies, writes Andres Schipani....
...Juan Manuel Santos looks relaxed. But, then, Colombia’s president-elect has just won a crushing election victory....
...The Secret History of Costaguana, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury RRP£16.99 A delicious subversion of a literary classic, in which Joseph Conrad steals the plot for his book...
...June 20 will be the day Colombians vote for the successor to Álvaro Uribe, the president credited with restoring security amid a 45-year war against leftist guerrillas....
...Marulanda’s death represents the latest setback for Farc, which has been on the defensive since the conservative President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002....
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