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...The deal “puts Ecuador on Asia’s map”, said Ecuadorean production, trade, investment and fishing minister Julio José Prado during a signing ceremony on Wednesday....
...“I’m always going to be the bad guy in some people’s eyes,” he said as we sipped at our coffees in San Jose....
...Among the Americans released was Jose Pereira, a former chief executive of Citgo Petroleum, Venezuelan state oil company’s Houston-based subsidiary....
...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...
...Trump, the master salesman with a preternatural ability to locate human weakness, has already carved up formidable-seeming challengers like “Lyin’ ” Ted Cruz, “Little” Marco Rubio and “Low Energy” Jeb Bush...
...‘Our president is no use’ José, 50, says he will always be a supporter of Fidel Castro but he is hungry....
...chief, José Antonio González Anaya....
...Marco Rubio, Florida senator, tweeted an unusually relevant point: “Most of these people fronting about a #GOYABOYCOTT either don’t use @Goyafoods . . . and most of those that do will cave by NocheBuena”...
...Huawei launched the case in December 2017 against San Jose-based CNEX and co-founder Yiren Huang, who previously worked for Huawei’s US-based research arm Futurewei....
...Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American senator for Florida who is seen to have the ear of US president Donald Trump on Latin America policy, panned the exercise as “a farce and a fraud”....
...When José Antonio Meade quit the finance ministry in December to run for the presidency on the ruling PRI ticket, his place was taken by Pemex chief executive José Antonio González Anaya....
...However, Luis Rubio, head of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, called the line-up “mostly politically correct choices with no experience for the job”....
...The Eastern Antilles have faced gales from Hurricane Jose, a category 4 storm, although Jose was pulling away from the islands towards the north-west and into the open sea between Bermuda and the Bahamas...
...That’s a price perhaps worth paying if it helps Venezuela transition,” said José Cárdenas, a former state department official who supports Mr Trump’s harsher Cuba policy....
...“I’m never going to be in favour of sanctions against my country,” said José Manuel Olivares, an opposition deputy in the Venezuelan Congress....
...Their hosts at Casa de Campo, a Dominican Republic luxury resort: José “Pepe” Fanjul, the Cuban-born Florida sugar baron, and his wife Emilia....
...Prof Rubio-Ramírez argues that Spain — for all the economic progress made over the past three years — remains vulnerable....
...“Cuba and now Venezuela are not foreign policy issues in the US, they are domestic issues,” explains José Hernández, editor-in-chief of El Venezolano, a newspaper for expats, and executive secretary in Miami...
...José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of the advocacy group, said that external pressure on Venezuelan authorities was needed, but warned that “even targeted sanctions by the US could be counterproductive...
...“It’s not inconceivable that he will do it well,” says Mr Rubio. But he warned: “This is getting more complicated and more costly every day.”...
...At least one political fundraiser, for Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio, was said to be cancelled....
...And neither has anyone else,” says José Alberto Carbonell, director-general of the Port de Barcelona....
...Mr Limbaugh, in an extraordinary (and, to my mind, racist) rant on Friday, said they voted for Santa Claus, the same thing, driving that home by playing the José Feliciano Christmas song “Feliz Navidad”...
...As Mr Rubio says: “The professionals are back. Now we have to see if they get things done.”...
...Jose-Carlos Rubio, 48, said his intention was for his shop, a local newsagents, to remain open all day but he was worried about what would happen later in the day, in case people on their way to main protests...
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