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...“La cosa está arrecha, mi pana” — “things have gotten rough, my friend” — was the voice message Daniel Torres left me a few weeks ago from Caracas....
...We should only be waiting an hour or so,” said Mr Torres. “My longest wait was from one day to the next....
...It is a message,” believes Father Guillermo Torre, the Catholic priest known locally as Padre Willy. The priest was sent by archbishop Jorge Bergoglio to take on the parish in 1999....
...The oil price boom helped Mr Chávez finance his revolution but also provided ample opportunities for fraud....
...At an opposition rally on Saturday, Rosibel Torres, a Caracas lawyer, said the move was “meant to silence popular protest”....
...Rodolfo Marco Torres, was demoted from economic vice-president and finance minister, to food minister amid severe shortages of basic goods in the country....
...Other moves include the demotion of Rodolfo Marco Torres from economic vice-president and finance minister to food minister....
...“This project is turning more authoritarian,” says Carlos de la Torre, an Ecuadorean sociologist at the University of Kentucky....
...Jorge Torres Chávez’s lasso orbits impossibly around the lead couple like a symbol of undying love....
...This week, as part of attempts to find extra funds, it also dispatched finance minister Rodolfo Marco Torres to China, a country that has loaned Venezuela $50bn since 2006....
...On Tuesday, from Beijing, finance minister Rodolfo Marco Torres said there will be announcements when Venezuela’s delegation returns to the country....
...The country’s top economic role, the newly created vice-presidency of economy and finance, is to be held by Rodolfo Marco Torres, a former brigadier-general and participant in Chávez’s failed 1992 coup attempt...
...According to the national gazette, Giordani has just been removed from the board of the Venezuelan central bank and replaced by Marco Torres, a former army officer turned finance minister....
...Soon after relaxing currency exchange rules Rodolfo Marco Torres, the new finance minister who has a reputation for being a pragmatist, attended the annual general meeting of the Inter-American Development...
...Rodolfo Torres, the finance minister, added: “Venezuela’s resources allow it to meet its needs.” A Venezuelan default could be widely felt....
...“That may not seem a credible reason to you, but it is very credible to us,” insists Mr Torres, whose conversation is peppered with exhortations to the memory of Chávez, who died last year....
...“I could consider more expensive gasoline because it is a gift here,” says Daniel Torres, a taxi driver in Caracas....
...OVV says Venezuela’s rate of violent homicide has quadrupled over the past 15 years; a year before the late Hugo Chávez took office, in 1998, the rate was 19 per 100,000....
...For Bank of America-Merrill Lynch: Marco Torres is one of the officers who participated in Chávez’s 1992 coup attempt, and served as national treasurer under [the now planning minister] Jorge Giordani....
...But Mr Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, has blamed the problems of the energy rich nation on corruption, sabotage, speculation and hoarding....
...Meanwhile, some banks, lawyers and the like see the city centre as de rigeur: they prefer the elegant towers along the Paseo de la Reforma boulevard, such as the Torre Diana, which, when it is finished in...
...Torres as interior and justice minister....
...Having swapped his Hugo Chávez-esque rhetoric for an electorally palatable, Brazilian-inspired centre-left script as easily as if he was changing t-shirts, Humala has once again rattled investors with the...
...“Nobody has a guaranteed place in the second round vote,” says Alfredo Torres of the Ipsos Apoyo opinion poll....
...While Toledo is still the overall favourite, pollster Alfredo Torres says no one is a shoe-in for the second round. Let the fun begin. Related reading: Peru file, beyondbrics...
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