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...Luis Manuel Díaz, the footballer’s father, was released following an operation carried out by the Colombian military, the United Nations, and the Catholic Church, the government in Bogotá confirmed on Thursday...
...Colombia’s interior ministry on Thursday confirmed Díaz’s father, Luis Manuel Díaz, is being held by the ELN and that the ceasefire in place with the group amid negotiations is now “at risk”....
...“We announce with joy the release of Luis Manuel Díaz,” a government peace delegation said. “He was able to return safely to his family and his community.”...
...Antonio García, the ELN commander, rationalises kidnapping as a means of financing the group, but concedes that the abduction of Luis Manuel Díaz was a “mistake”....
...Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni told a press conference on Wednesday: “This government has not been left a patient with toothache....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discouraged an interventionist approach by security forces in a policy known as “hugs not bullets”....
...Luis Manuel Díaz was released unharmed on November 9 but about 25 other hostages remain in ELN captivity, according to non-party conflict monitoring group Cerac....
...The next president will also face the question of whether to maintain the policies of outgoing leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who empowered the military and state-owned companies, weakened institutions...
...This is the most visible element of what amounts to a military takeover: 1,500 troops were deployed to Mexico City’s Benito Juárez airport after populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador drafted in...
...Luis Evia, senior business adviser at Petrus, said the figures were “incorrect and exaggerated” but that because of confidentiality agreements, he could not give more details....
...“Morena should be called the PTI [Institutional Transformation party],” jokes Luis de la Calle, a business consultant....
...Spain has key positions in other EU institutions, including ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos and European Banking Authority chair José Manuel Campa, although the latter’s term expires in March next year...
...Luis de la Calle, a former North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) negotiator and trade expert, said the US was not abiding by the panel decision on car parts — which determined Washington was applying...
...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....
...“The government has focused its efforts on the security issue, but it’s also been a failure in economic terms,” said Manuel Flores, the leftwing FMLN party’s presidential candidate....
...Rather than figuring out how Brazil can compete with India to assemble iPhones or win investment in microchips, President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva wants to build oil refineries, revive shipbuilding and...
...The ‘moral economy’ Much of the blame for Mexico’s lacklustre economic performance has fallen on the shoulders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...The blind tasters reportedly enjoyed LA Cetto’s delicious Don Luis Viognier, but scorned it once they saw the label....
...ECB, and José Manuel Campa, chair of the European Banking Authority, wrote in a blog post published Friday....
...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....
...Behind him, this implies, is a grand ensemble, from Nadal and his parents — his father Luis is a renowned political activist — to his whole neighbourhood. Miranda paints it as a bustling idyll....
...At least 49 people were killed in the crash and 58 were injured — most of whom were taken to hospital — state civil protection head Luis Manuel García Moreno said....
...It was “the highest for a single day since February 6 and higher than any figure registered in the whole of 2020,” tweeted Andrés Tapia, a medical student at Mexico’s Unam university who has been following...
...Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday that he spoke to executives at US airline Delta, which owns a stake in national flag carrier Aeromexico, and that it was considering whether to...
...She will face stiff competition from the former mayor of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, former health minister Alejandro Gaviria and Juan Manuel Galán, whose father Luis Carlos Galán was a famous liberal assassinated...
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