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...Jonathan Wheatley discusses what happens next with Andres Schipani, the FT's Andes correspondent....
...It is not only insurgent opposition movements in revolt against the “elites” that are labelled in this way, either — political incumbents are too: Latin American leaders such as Rafael Correa of Ecuador...
...US deputy special envoy for climate change, Jonathan Pershing, told the conference the US wanted to see the fund become operational in Durban....
...Ecuador has changed the rules of the game since Mr Correa, a leftist US-trained economist, came to power in 2007....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo, Jude Webber in Buenos Aires, Naomi Mapstone in Lima and Benedict Mander in Caracas....
...Leonardo Correa, mining analyst at Barclays Capital in São Paulo, said the results were “within expectations but it is still a very good result”....
...Mr Corrêa at Santander says he fields calls almost daily from pension fund managers wanting to know how his individual investments are performing....
...Odebrecht and Carmargo Corrêa said the upper limit set by the government of R$83 ($47) per megawatt hour was too low to be commercially viable....
...The offer was rejected and Camargo Corrêa and Votorantim, the big guns of Brazilian cement, stepped into the fray. Now they look to have thwarted CSN in its ambitions....
...from FT Alphaville, our markets blog, ranging from graphics comparing market reactions to this quake with previous ones, as well as the insurance angle to this disaster. 1233 - Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa...
...Odebrecht and Camargo Corrêa, two of Brazil’s biggest construction companies, had planned to bid together but decided not to, saying the maximum tariff set by the government for the 70 per cent of Belo Monte...
...Jonathan Wheatley Ecuador: The seizures will go on Rafael Correa knows when he is on to a good thing....
...The consortium that will build the Jirau plant consists of Suez with 50.1 per cent, Chesf and Eletrosul, two electricity utilities, with 20 per cent each, and Camargo Corrêa, a construction group, with 9.9...
...Although he is hugely popular at the moment, Mr Correa should not take this support for granted. And Mr Correa is economically in a much weaker position than Mr Chávez....
...Jonathan Wheatley The IMF’s friend in the DR Spurned by much of Latin America, from Argentina to Venezuela, the International Monetary Fund still has friends in the Dominican Republic....
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...Benedict Mander and Richard Lapper The problem with Correa President Rafael Correa’s constitutional reform gets underway properly this week with the country’s new constituent assembly starting its first...
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley...
...Jonathan Wheatley Correa’s own goal Newly empowered by the scale of his victory in the election for a constituent assembly, President Rafael Correa is now well placed to remodel Ecuador’s political system...
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo, Joanna Chung in London and Richard Beales in New York...
...Jonathan Wheatley Trade tangos Two steps forward, two steps back for freer trade in Latin America....
...But the risks though are definitely going to grow, especially if President Rafael Correa wins a big majority in the 30 September constituent assembly election....
...jonathan.wheatley@gmail.com Correa’s inconsistency Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has been threatening to default on the country’s $4bn debt to international bondholders since he began election campaigning...
...Opponents of Mr Patiño will continue to press President Rafael Correa for the finance minister to be removed from office....
...Notes by Richard Lapper, Jonathan Wheatley, Adam Thomson and Benedict Mander...
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