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...I am riding with Arias through the tobacco fields near El Bordo one evening, with the estancia’s gaucho José Maria Gallardo, when Arias tells me how his seven-year-old son recently received a 1,000-peso...
...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.”...
...Maria Jorge Godoy, a 30-year-old who inherited a stall from her mother three years ago, says she will vote for Kast....
...“This will go worse for you than when [former prime minister José María] Aznar got involved in Iraq,” he said. “I hope you do not stain your hands with blood alongside Trump in the Venezuelan crisis.”...
...The social work and sacrifices of the slum priests are widely praised, though some baulk at overtly political interference — such as when Padre José María “Pepe” di Paola, one of the closest to Pope Francis...
...“This is for my generation, and generations to come,” says María Fernanda Guarín, a 23-year-old law student at a Bogotá peace rally, where her fellow marchers chanted “Obviously, Yes” in favour of the deal...
...Posters of leftist icons such as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez have been taken down from the palace walls....
...“Maduro is trying, but he is not Chávez,” says socialist party supporter Jesús Rodríguez, a reference to the late Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s charismatic predecessor who won legitimacy with serial electoral...
...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?”...
...The answer is Hugo Chávez....
...But Caracas never put a cent into it: even the anti-capitalist Chávez was put off by its escalating costs, former Petrobras executives joke....
...Maria das Gracas Foster, Petrobras president, met federal police officers at her headquarters in Rio de Janeiro to hand over the files as, separately, Brazil’s Congress moved closer to mounting a formal...
...María Corina Machado, a fiery opposition member, shrugged off the warnings and encouraged further civil unrest, telling supporters “we won’t stop until we change this government.”...
...“Municipalities are the weakest link in the federal system,” Mr Chávez says. “It is a structural problem.”...
...“Give me a balcony and I will be president,” said José María Velasco, five times president of Ecuador, four times ousted in military coups, and a Latin American populist of the old school....
...“For years, President Chávez and his followers have been building a system in which the government has free rein to threaten and punish Venezuelans who interfere with their political agenda,” said José Miguel...
...Although the legal adviser for the opposition coalition, Jesús María Casal, expressed doubt that the council was meant to be a transitional body, Nelson Bocaranda, a prominent opposition journalist, wrote...
...El Sistema decades before Hugo Chávez came to power....
...While many are sceptical about Mr Chávez’s commitment to addressing the problem of cocaine smuggling and the presence of Colombian rebels in Venezuela, María Teresa Romero, a Caracas-based analyst in international...
...Only a week ago, José María Aznar, former prime minister of Spain, was fondly recalling the shared heritage of his country and its former Latin American colonies and looking forward to a democratic future...
...Monica Cueva, formerly based at Santander in Madrid, will be financial controller, while Jose María Nus, the new head of risk, and Justo Gómez, the new finance director, both hail from Banesto, the Santander...
...“The doctor is like a member of the family,” says Dr Maria Fernandez Oliva, director of the nearby Thomas Romay polyclinic....
...Footage of the last year’s monarchical outburst, as Mr Chávez described former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar as a “fascist”, became an instant YouTube hit....
...Mr Chávez, whose long and incendiary speeches are notorious, repeatedly called José María Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister, a “fascist” during the 17th Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile....
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