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...José Luis García-Palacios, head of trade group Interfresa, blamed the storm on “political interests”. What to watch today EU agriculture and fisheries ministers meet in Luxembourg....
...Imani Moise 18....
...Balé de Rua was founded in 1992 by Fernando Narduchi, Marco Antônio Garcia and José Marciel Silva in the central Brazilian city of Uberlândia....
...But oil executives say Mr Lula da Silva and his allies deepened the practice, assigning a larger number of senior positions to political appointees, from the former chief executive José Sergio Gabrielli,...
...António José Seguro, leader of the centre-left Socialists (PS), the main opposition party, scheduled a meeting with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva on Wednesday to reiterate his call for an early election....
...Portugal’s President Aníbal Cavaco Silva said the government maintained the necessary support to “fulfill its democratic mandate”....
...Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portugal’s conservative president, will on Friday meet political parties after the government’s defeat in a vote on new austerity measures....
...Luis Silva Martinot, commerce; Alberto Tejada, health; Miguel Caillaux Zalazzi, agriculture; Aí da Garcí a Naranjo Morales, women; and Patricia Salas, education....
...Ms Rousseff, the chosen successor of the hugely popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftwing Workers’ party (PT), looked happy and confident after winning a run-off poll against José Serra...
...As prime minister, José Sócrates battled ceaselessly on the international stage during the past year, in an effort to convince financial markets and European Union partners that Portugal had no need to follow...
...José Sócrates, Portugal’s Prime Minister, is said to still be attending Thursday’s “grand bargain” summit in Brussels....
...Responsibility for addressing a political limbo would fall to Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portugal’s conservative president....
...In Uruguay, president José Mujica is a former Tupamaro rebel who has applied realism and has restored Uruguay’s ancestral republicanism....
...As Luiz Inácio Silva da Lula, the Brazilian president, said on Tuesday: “The things I have seen about Brazil are so insignificant they don’t deserve to be taken seriously.”...
...São Paulo state governor José Serra went to the scene immediately, following the rescue work and talking to the press. Surely, Mr Lula da Silva should have done the same....
...Mr Lula da Silva has already suggested she should receive a sympathetic hearing....
...“Politically, this is a very astute move,” said José Mirtenbaum of Gabriel Rene Moreno university in Santa Cruz....
...Even Alvaro Garcia Linera, the vice-president-elect, admits Mr Morales “is a charismatic leader who makes most decisions himself”....
...They have since made up, as have Chávez and Alan Garcia of Peru, who had previously exchanged insults....
...Enrique Garcia, the president of the Andean Development Corporation, has yet to secure the backing of his home country, Bolivia....
...And throughout the week, Mr Lula da Silva will keep one eye on events in Venezuela. His special adviser on foreign affairs, Marco Aurelio García, arrived in Caracas at the weekend....
...Robert Pires and José Antonio Reyes look shadows of the players they were two months ago, and Cesc Fabregas, forced into regular action by injuries to Edu and Gilberto Silva, also wears a tired look....
...Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva, Brazil’s president, courted his wife to the sound of “A Banda” (The band), the song that propelled Chico to national fame in 1966....
...There too was Angolan novelist Jose Eduardo Agualusa, considered one of Africa’s finest, bumping into French cult author Pierre Michon....
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