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...Luis Carlos Ugalde, a political consultant and former head of Mexico’s electoral institute, said her main challenge was voters’ “desire for continuity”, adding: “It will be very difficult [for Gálvez], because...
...A panel of international experts investigating the incident ended their work in July, saying they had been repeatedly lied to by the military. Additional reporting by Karla Ruiz...
...Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu, formerly of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), wants a public debate on the military’s role....
...“Mexico has a big comparative advantage in farming but there are problems in [agricultural health agency] Senasica,” says Luis de la Calle, an economist who runs a consulting firm in Mexico City....
...“If it’s Xóchitl, my guess is that she would be . . . looking for ways to lever Mexico’s future on a closer and tighter relationship with the US, which probably Claudia would not do,” said Luis Rubio, a...
...The likes of Willy Pérez, a driving force behind Territorio Albariza and the son of celebrated Domecq winemaker Luis Pérez, want to go back further into sherry’s history....
...Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...“There has been a decision in both the US and Mexican governments to try to manage all the tensions until after the two elections,” said Claudia Ruiz Massieu, a Mexican opposition lawmaker who heads the...
...Old-school leftist López Obrador in 2019 tasked the defence ministry with building the airport at a cost of $5bn after cancelling a partially built one designed by architect Norman Foster, claiming that...
...“Morena should be called the PTI [Institutional Transformation party],” jokes Luis de la Calle, a business consultant....
...Additional reporting by Karla Ruiz...
...Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, an opposition National Action Party (PAN) senator, chained herself to a desk on the night of the votes last month to try to disrupt proceedings....
...He was born in 1881 in this rented apartment in a 19th-century apartment block on the city’s Plaza de la Merced, the first child of María Picasso López and José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher....
...The result of López Obrador’s approach, says Shannon O’Neill, a Mexico expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, is “a stream of . . . near shoring, not a tsunami”....
...For more than a decade after its creation in 2008 by building magnate and art collector Javier López Granados, the Finca existed in solitary splendour, a proudly independent hotel that does very nicely from...
...The investment includes €500mn for the construction of an assembly centre for lithium-ion batteries on the grounds of a BMW car plant in San Luis Potosí....
...Luis Casacuberta, director of Mango’s women’s, kids’ and home businesses, said the company was looking for not only flexibility but “robustness”....
...Asked whether any Latin American nation had taken up Washington’s offer, Jose Ruiz, a spokesperson for US Southern Command, said it was “our policy not to disclose the particulars of ongoing private discussions...
...I stopped at Son Moragues, one of the portfolio of houses once belonging to the Mallorca-loving Archduke Luis Salvador of Austria (1847-1915)....
...Luís Roberto Barroso, a supreme court judge who at the time headed Brazil’s electoral court, says he also played a part in soliciting the statement from the US state department....
...[Felipe Ángeles is] a medium-sized airport, it’s not proportionate to the needs of Mexico City,” said Luis de la Calle, a board member of Aeromexico who spoke in his capacity as an economic consultant....
...My eyes were opened to the longevity of the finest Tempranillo-based wines 11 years ago at a tasting organised by Spanish wine lovers Luis Gutiérrez and Jesús Barquín....
...A hug to the victim’s families,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Twitter....
...Luis Vicente León, a pollster in Caracas, said that fewer than one in five Venezuelans believe a change of government is imminent, from almost two-thirds in 2019....
...Cortés is a sinister, simpering presence in Diego Rivera’s great murals in the National Palace in Mexico City, where the viceroys ruled and López Obrador now holds court....
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