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...“When I first arrived on Santo Antão in 2002, there were about three tourists each week,” says the lodge’s owner Daniel Reyes Breitenströter....
...And then climbed higher still, to the coffee plantations near the indigenous town of Santos Reyes Nopala, looking for the sources from which the water comes....
...Julio Mario’s unauthorised biographer, Gerardo Reyes, even described him as an example of what not to do....
...Augusto Santos Silva, foreign minister, said there could be a deal by the end of June, with visitors able to return to the UK without being quarantined....
...“The hills around Lucca, Pieve Santo Stefano, Valgiano, Gattaiola, Mutigliano and Matraia are beautiful areas to own a villa.”...
...For Lenita do Espírito Santo, though, the only thing that mattered on Saturday was for her son to show up alive. “It is heart-wrenching,” she sobbed....
...says Mr Santos. “But there has to be a balance between forgiveness and justice.”...
...But with great wealth also comes great power, and the ultimate verdict of Gerardo Reyes, a distinguished journalist who wrote Don Julio Mario’s unauthorised 2003 biography, is bleak: “[Julio Mario] Santo...
...kidnapped by Farc demand their freedom in Bogotá Mar 2008-Nov 2011 During an all-out offensive first launched by Mr Uribe in 2002, Colombia’s armed forces kill some top Farc commanders, including Raúl Reyes...
...Peasants could be really efficient as producers if we integrate them to the market,” said Mr Reyes....
...With a bit of luck and much statecraft, the group’s 8,000 other guerrillas may soon join Mr Reyes in civilian life....
...The truth is that, in practice, it has been so,” says Alejandro Reyes, an analyst with Interbolsa in Bogota....
...Mr Santos, a former defence minister who presided over the killing of Farc leader Raul Reyes, has said he will only consider talks on certain conditions, such as an end to the recruitment of child soldiers...
...The Farc’s second in command, Raul Reyes, was killed during a raid on a Farc camp in Ecuador in 2008, and the movement’s founder, Manuel Marulanda, died of a heart attack the same year....
...Mr Santos announced a “revision” of defence strategy on his first anniversary as president this month, signalling a shift to smaller, more flexible units....
...His demise underscores the Farc’s inability to protect even its most valued members, and the depth of its leadership crisis following the deaths of commanders Marulanda, Raul Reyes and Jorge Bricen, alias...
...Mr Santos, who as defence minister under former president Álvaro Uribe oversaw the raid that killed Reyes and the mission to rescue Ms Betancourt, has changed tactics, seeking better relations with Ecuador...
...“She was vomiting and passing blood,” recalls Ms Reyes. “I thought she was going to die.” Today, she is recovering....
...The bombing of the Farc camp was “a state matter, not personal”, Mr Santos told local media....
...Meanwhile, Mr Santos, a former defence minister who presided over the Colombian army raid that killed the Farc leader Raúl Reyes and the rescue of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, is selling...
...Several Farc leaders have died this year, among them the group’s founder, Manuel Marulanda, and key commander Raul Reyes....
...“This is just the beginning of the end,” said Francisco Santos, Colombia’s vice-president. “We’re starting to see a constant series of hits against the Farc, they’re losing fast.”...
...The rescue was carried out in the southern jungle province of Guaviare, Santos said....
...Farc has suffered a stream of desertions and in March two other senior leaders were killed, including Raúl Reyes, the second-in-command, who died during a controversial attack on a camp inside Ecuador....
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