Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The hard-right Republican party of José Antonio Kast was the biggest winner in Sunday’s election, picking up 22 of the 51 seats in the council drafting a new constitution....
...My guests are Andrés Velasco, dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and a former finance minister of Chile....
...“If a lot of older people vote, the election will be very close,” Velasco says. “But [the new Covid-19 variant] Omicron is not Kast’s friend....
...Trade and industry minister José Manuel Restrepo is nonetheless confident that Colombia can compete with Mexico....
...“You need to have your own supply,” argues Mr Velasco, who runs Madrileña tequila, a brand launched by his grandfather in 1911....
...The odd one out — family-run Jose Cuervo, Mexico’s biggest and oldest tequila maker — is about to go public....
...“Good management is a necessary but not a sufficient condition,” says Andrés Velasco, a former Chilean finance minister....
...José Isaac Velasco, senior economist at Banco Ve Por Más, says the proximity of a Fed rate rise has contributed to the peso’s recent falls, along with market turbulence from the Greek crisis and the possibility...
...“Since the first music festival began, we have been recovering our music and our culture,” says Ronald Chinchi, 28, a music teacher in San Ignacio de Velasco, the largest of the mission towns....
...Ecuador’s probably most remarkable leader, though, is José María Velasco Ibarra – a liberal and a populist whose career, charisma and multiple presidencies stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s....
...“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....
...But along the northern fringes of the Atacama Desert, farmers such as Estuardo Masías have helped bring Peru out of the agricultural dark ages, triggered by the 1969 land reforms of leftist dictator Juan Velasco...
...The central bank has kept interest rates at a record low of 0.5 per cent since July and governor José De Gregorio has said an expansionary policy will remain “for a while” while rebuilding gets under way...
...“Massive self-insurance” – as central bank president José De Gregorio calls the carefully saved windfall from copper prices that were booming before the crisis, and the steady accumulation of central bank...
...“Five to six points of inflation last year came from food or energy,” José De Gregorio, central bank governor, said....
...Mr Tokman’s unenviable job is to steer Chile through the next two years of increasingly tight supplies until relief comes in 2009. ”There is no way to solve the energy crisis in the short term,” said Jose...
...“The fact that Michelle Bachelet has come to government is a trigger for that change, and a product of that change,” says Andres Velasco, the finance minister....
...Even Sebastián Piñera, a rightwing hopeful whose brother José was an architect of the original scheme, has argued for change....
International Edition