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...Migration will feature heavily on the agenda at that meeting, especially in talks with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...“It’s huge news,” said John Padilla, managing director at IPD Latin America....
...“Its going to be interesting to see what exactly this whole . . . plan really entails,” said John Padilla, a partner at Latin America-based energy consultancy IPD....
...Pemex has debts of some $105bn, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considers it a national champion....
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's president, has stepped up his commitment to an $8bn refinery project, rejecting three private sector bids as too costly and vowing that state oil company Pemex will...
...John Padilla, managing director at energy consultancy IPD Latin America, said in a phone interview....
...“Every administration keeps on looking for the silver bullet, but the silver bullet is long gone,” said John Padilla, an energy consultant....
...On my last afternoon, I visit Espacio Aglutinador, run for the past 26 years by Sandra Ceballos in an elegant Vedado villa....
...By contrast, “profitability is not part of the discourse or strategy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador”, said John Padilla, managing director of IPD, an energy consultancy....
...John Padilla of IPD, an energy consultancy, noted that Pemex now spends “more on retirees than on employees”....
...I am advising clients to button down the hatches,” Mr Padilla said. “Essentially, we are in purgatory.”...
...More vehement opposition comes from Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic former leader of the PRD, who has founded a breakaway movement that plans mass rallies on September 8....
...In February, an Ecuadorian judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to merit a warrant against Mr Santos or Gen Padilla....
...Mr Uribe’s successor, Juan Manuel Santos, who will be sworn in on August 7, is unlikely to be as jolly, given the can of worms that has been opened....
...Key Farc commanders Manuel Marulanda, Ivan Rios and Raúl Reyes, have died since 2008, the last in a raid over the Ecuadorean border that jeopardised bilateral relations....
...Special forces had rehearsed the rescue mission many times, Gen Padilla said....
...The PRD’s leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is still contesting his defeat at the 2006 election, but his party has split, among other things, over legislation last month reforming Pemex....
...The SEC alleges that Mr Salinas and Pedro Padilla Longoria, former chief executive of TV Azteca, made false certifications....
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