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...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...
...That is most unlike Chávez.”...
...“Today I speak to the people of Venezuela, and especially to my brothers in the armed forces of the nation, to recognise President Juan Guaidó as the only legitimate president,” Colonel Jose Luis Silva said...
...In his gloomy government office, José Luis Manrique, deputy head of security of León, the state’s most populous city, explained why Guanajuato has suffered. “Everything was very calm here until 2009....
...Once-loyal “Chavistas” such as former ministers Elías Jaua and José Vicente Rangel are increasingly critical....
...Juan José is digging a latrine on the small, 8m by 25m plot the government of Daniel Ortega has given him to build a house....
...’s secretary is elected president of Paraguay (The Economist) Muere a los 88 años el exdictador boliviano Luis García Meza (El País) Special Report: A fractured peace — violent rivals rush into Farc void...
...With the word “dictatorship” increasingly on Venezuelans’ lips, Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organisation of American States, who closely follows the situation in the benighted country, criticised...
...Posters of leftist icons such as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez have been taken down from the palace walls....
...“We have all gathered — workers, the young, students and Venezuelans of all kinds — to show . . . that we want change this year, whether the government wants it or not,” said opposition lawmaker José Luis...
...The talks, attended also by former Spanish premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, seek to ease the political stand-off and staunch an economic and social crisis that has led to spiralling violence, triple...
...José Mujica, the former Uruguayan president, this week called Mr Maduro “crazy as a goat”. More than two-thirds of Venezuelans believe he should not finish his term....
...Mr Kerry is also backing dialogue — facilitated by former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Dominican president Leonel Fernández and former Panamanian president Martín Torrijos...
...Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Argentine former chief of the International Criminal Court, says the accord signed on Wednesday by Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president, is “like a work by Van Gogh that only...
...Alfredo Romero of Foro Penal, a local rights group, fears the state of emergency could be used as a “pretext to suspend constitutional rights and freedoms”, while Luis Vicente León, a political analyst,...
...Former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former Panamanian President Martín Torrijos are also pushing for political dialogue backed by US secretary of state John Kerry, under the umbrella...
...seat, blaming the economic crisis on Chávez....
...His uncle, Luis Mejía, remarked that in a fortnight three members of their family had been shot, including two youths who were shot by police....
...Nonetheless, former vice-president José Vicente Rangel cites other polls which say Mr Maduro’s ratings among Chavistas remains high at 89 per cent....
...José María Aznar against Chávez’s taunts of “fascism” – the king turned to Chávez and said “¿Por qué no te callas?”...
...José Luis Basanta, a representative of those investors who bought the newspaper through a holding company, Epalisticia, told Bloomberg they paid less than $22m for El Universal....
...Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster with Datanálisis in Caracas tweeted on Thursday: Sadly, the adjustment measures hidden in yesterday’s announcement are insufficient and badly seasoned....
...president, could talk privately with Cristina Fernández of Argentina and José Mujica of Uruguay....
...Led by the vice-president, Elias Jaua, the council’s members are José Vicente Rangel, a previous vice-president and a prominent journalist; Admiral Carlos Rafael Giacopini; Luis Britto García, a writer and...
...The first of Krauze’s 12 intellectual biographies are of the precursor “prophets”, as he calls them – writers such as Cuba’s José Martí and Mexico’s José Vasconcelos....
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