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...Earlier this month, the transfer of jailed gang leader José Adolfo Macías, known as “Fito”, to a maximum security prison in Guayaquil triggered unrest in the port city....
...“The first thing that needs to happen in Ecuador is that the violence ends,” said José Castillo, a 30-year-old music producer in Quito who plans to vote for González....
...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....
...María José Rosas, who works in communications, turned out with a group of friends. “We are here to show support for a president who is facing political persecution,” she said....
...In April, frustrated by gridlock, Petro reshuffled his cabinet and ousted the respected and moderate finance minister José Antonio Ocampo....
...Human Rights Watch’s Americas director José Miguel Vivanco has described the move as “a mafioso operation — more ‘The Godfather’ than modern republic”....
...Arauz has the backing of Rafael Correa who took Ecuador out of the US’s orbit and pushed it towards China while serving as president from 2007 until 2017....
...The ex-presidents of Brazil (Dilma Rousseff), Paraguay (Fernando Lugo), Uruguay (José “Pepe” Mujica) and Ecuador (Rafael Correa) have all visited....
...“The clear message was that the state does not have control in that territory,” said Catalina Pérez Correa, an expert on security at CIDE university....
...“There are multiple angles of value creation here,” says Leonardo Correa, analyst at BTG Pactual, referring to the shareholder changes....
...But Carlos Correa of advocacy group Espacio Público says some cable operators in Venezuela were told not to broadcast it by government officials....
...Mr Maduro said the time had come to raise the price of the world’s cheapest petrol and — after citing Ecuador’s leftist President, Rafael Correa and Argentina’s Evita Perón — he convened a commission to...
...José Luís Kendall is the owner of Kendall & Associados....
...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....
...The prosecution cites, as one example, findings by TCU that contracts awarded to one builder, identified as Consórcio Nacional Camargo Corrêa, were inflated in value by as much as R$446m....
...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....
...“This is largely due to tenancy laws passed in the 1920s,” says Jose Luís Kendall, owner of K&A, which specialises in prime real estate....
...His delegation includes Brazil’s biggest construction contractors, such as Odebrecht and Camargo Correa....
...Votorantim is still tightly controlled by the son and other relatives of José Ermírio de Moraes, an engineer-turned-politician who bought the textile factory in the 1900s from his wife’s father....
...While Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, urged Latin American governments to respect his country’s investments in the region, Spain’s foreign minister, José García-Margallo, slammed the takeover...
...José Miguel Insulza, OAS secretary-general, confirmed that the wider issue of whether Mr Assange should have been given political asylum was not in question....
...“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....
...Shares in Cimpor rose by almost 10 per cent after Camargo Corrêa of Brazil stepped up a long-running battle over Portugal’s largest cement producer by making a €2.48bn offer for the company....
...But José Félix Fernández Estigarribia, Paraguay’s foreign minister, said in Asunción: “They have no right to kick us out of any meeting....
...“There is no question that free speech is under siege in Ecuador,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “The only guarantor of free speech in a democracy is the judiciary....
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