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...Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States, a regional group, said Ecuador’s actions could not be allowed to set a precedent....
...“One represents the continuity of this project, and the other, the critique of this project,” said Martha Bárcena, who was Mexico’s ambassador to Washington until 2021....
...But the party with the most prominent legal problems is the PP, which lost power in a vote of no confidence in 2018 after a court censured it for “institutional corruption” in a case in which Luis Bárcenas...
...Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of the ruling Popular Party (PP), was jailed for 33 years and fined more than €44m for evading taxes and pocketing more than €1m in commissions to help win public contracts...
...In 2013 after the scandal broke, Mr Rajoy sent Mr Bárcenas a text message reading, “Luis, I understand, be strong.”...
...“There’s a rumour that they want to bring in heavy machinery,” Ms Villegas said, fighting tears....
...Defence minister Luis Carlos Villegas acknowledges “it has to be a process of at least a generation”....
...In a separate branch of the case, former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas is accused of setting up a slush fund to top up the salaries of PP leaders....
...One of the most high-profile defendants — former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas — could be sent to jail for 42 years and five months if the judges follow the petition from prosecutors....
...Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas confirmed that it was a mistake and claimed it wasn’t clear how the new language had ended up in the text....
...One of the reasons that Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, failed to secure a majority in elections in December was the backwash from a scandal: in 2013 it was revealed that Luis Bárcenas, the former...
...Luis Bárcenas, the former party treasurer, told journalists that Mr Rajoy had known about the existence of the illegal party fund “from the very beginning”....
...“The airport is already getting small,” says Luis Fernando Andrade, the Wharton-educated president of Colombia’s national infrastructure agency....
...Luis Bárcenas, the disgraced ex-party official at the centre of the affair, told a court in the city of Toledo that the recipient of the cash was Dolores de Cospedal, the PP secretary-general and a close...
...Mr Rajoy’s party was rounded on by opposition politicians on Tuesday after the El Mundo daily newspaper published what it claimed to be original copies of shadow accounts written by Luis Barcenas, the PP...
...Luis Bárcenas, who worked within the Popular party over three decades, and has become the central figure in the most serious corruption scandal to involve the government of prime minister Mariano Rajoy,...
...Luis Bárcenas, the disgraced veteran PP official at the centre of the affair, arrived in court in the late morning, and was expected to answer questions from the investigating judge for at least several...
...Like those around him, Miguel Bernad had come to see the arrival of Luis Bárcenas, the man at the centre of a deepening slush fund scandal afflicting the ruling Popular party....
...When Luis Bárcenas appeared in court this month to speak about his role in the slush fund scandal that has engulfed Spain’s ruling Popular party, he seemed to know exactly what he wanted to talk about –...
...Political pressure mounted yesterday after Luis Barcenas, the former treasurer of his centre-right People’s Party, gave new testimony before a judge looking into a party finance scandal....
...The latest attacks on the government follow the publication of several mobile phone text messages that were sent between Mr Rajoy and Luis Bárcenas, the former PP party treasurer who allegedly operated a...
...Mariano Rajoy on Thursday offered the fullest defence yet of his conduct in the slush fund affair that has rocked Spain’s ruling Popular party, but admitted he was wrong to trust Luis Bárcenas, the former...
...Until now, Mr Rajoy has also failed to explain in public how much he knew about the activities of Luis Bárcenas, the former PP treasurer and the man at the centre of the scandal....
...Luis Bárcenas, the treasurer of his right-wing Partido Popular for 20 years until 2009 who is at the centre of a series of interlinked illegal party financing scandals, was feared to be a ticking bomb....
...Luis Bárcenas, the former party treasurer, told a criminal court in Madrid that he indeed managed a slush fund that was fed by secret donations from construction companies and other businesses....
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