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...He served as Ecuador’s vice-president from 2013-18 under Rafael Correa, a leftwing ally of López Obrador....
...FSL has opened a case in New Zealand against Luis Noboa alleging that he received improper payments while working for another standalone company within the Noboa group. Luis denies that claim....
...Luis Antonio Espino, a communication consultant, tweeted: “Amlo may not have had his Waterloo, but the opposition had its Dunquerque” — a reference to a turning point in the second world war....
...Mr Arauz, who leads in some polls and is running a close second in others, is the protégé of Rafael Correa, a leftwing populist who governed Ecuador from 2007-17....
...Luis Oganes, global head of emerging markets research at JPMorgan, said there was a risk across the Andean nations of populist candidates triumphing....
...The parallels with Bolivia are striking: former leftwing president Rafael Correa is in exile, barred from returning to his country, so he is trying to lever one of his supporters into the presidency....
...Mr Morales, who fled Bolivia last year amid protests against his attempts to engineer a fourth consecutive presidential term, was not running for president; victory went to his former finance minister Luis...
...Bolivia’s interim president, Jeanine Áñez, also confirmed the MAS’s victory, tweeting her congratulations to the socialist candidate, Luis Arce, and his running mate, David Choquehuanca....
...To make his point, Valdés shows a video of Correa dancing at a birthday celebration....
...“The clear message was that the state does not have control in that territory,” said Catalina Pérez Correa, an expert on security at CIDE university....
...“The way we’re going this will be by far the worst year yet for press freedom,” its director Carlos Correa said....
...We are different from any other country in Latin America,” said Luis Arce, who was Bolivia’s economy minister until last year. But Evonomics looks shaky....
...for contacts of Mr Correa....
...In 2013 after the scandal broke, Mr Rajoy sent Mr Bárcenas a text message reading, “Luis, I understand, be strong.”...
...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 region’s few leaders not to condemn the coup is outgoing Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa, a longstanding Venezuelan ally....
...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....
...A lot of contracts are renegotiated in January and companies take on inventory,” said Mario Correa, economist at Scotiabank, who expects a steep jump....
...The central bank echoed Mr Maduro’s and Luis Salas, the leftist sociologist who runs Venezuela’s economic cabinet: blaming the country’s woes on the “economic war” waged by rightwing sectors of society,...
...This week police formally charged the head of the company, Marcelo Odebrecht, with corruption, while a court convicted three former executives of construction group Camargo Corrêa for involvement in Car...
...José Luís Kendall is the owner of Kendall & Associados....
...Rafael Correa, the leftwing president of Ecuador, called US comments about Venezuela being a security threat “a bad joke”....
...José Luis Basanta, a representative of those investors who bought the newspaper through a holding company, Epalisticia, told Bloomberg they paid less than $22m for El Universal....
...“This is largely due to tenancy laws passed in the 1920s,” says Jose Luís Kendall, owner of K&A, which specialises in prime real estate....
...“Pension funds are very important players in our country, they are key [and] have a lot of weight in the economy, almost 20 per cent of GDP,” says Luis Miguel Castilla, finance minister....
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