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...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”....
...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 luthier behind this revolutionary instrument, Antonio de Torres, called his creation La Leona (The Lioness), for the growl it made when strummed....
...When the current owner Juan Manuel’s parents — restaurateur Manuel del Rey and his wife Blanca, a celebrated flamenco dancer and now artistic director — founded the Corral in 1956, they combined their expertise...
...Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, said last month that what the banks were offering was “not enough”....
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s populist leftwing president, said the US should end its decades-old embargo on Cuba if it wished to help....
...“These last two incidents, while high profile, are not one-offs,” noted Antonio Garza, a former US ambassador to Mexico. The government, he said, was “losing time....
...He’s what we need now,” said José Díaz, 39, who is out of work....
...“It’s a very bad night for the left,” said Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence....
...Mexico’s past populist leaders had delivered “catastrophic effects”, Femsa chief José Antonio Fernández Carbajal warned in a video....
...José Antonio González Anaya, the chief executive of Pemex, Mexico’s state oil company, is the hot favourite to replace Mr Meade in the ministry....
...Mr Peña Nieto made no mention of who would replace Mr Carstens but the newest member of the central bank’s board, Alejandro Díaz de León, is seen as the most likely choice....
...When José Antonio Meade quit the finance ministry in December to run for the presidency on the ruling PRI ticket, his place was taken by Pemex chief executive José Antonio González Anaya....
...Mr López Obrador will face José Antonio Meade, who quit on Monday as finance minister to run for president on the ruling PRI party’s ticket....
...The latest scandal should give a boost to the left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who says he will end all corruption and root out “the mafia of power”....
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, vice-president and a politburo member since 2003, has been groomed to take his spot. Mr Castro’s retirement will not be total....
...A lot of people depend on their power,” says Manuel Arias Maldonado, a political scientist at the University of Málaga....
...Still, Pedro Torres, a constitutional law professor at the Tec de Monterrey’s School of Government, saw the risk of damage as high....
...“They [the Socialists] are in a devilish situation,” says Manuel Arias Maldonado, who teaches political sciences at Málaga University....
...rebel negotiator Jorge Torres, also known as Pablo Catatumbo, told a local radio station from Havana, where peace talks have been under way for more than a year....
...And last week, Antonio Garza, the US ambassador in Mexico City, warned US citizens of possible violence as a result of Mr López Obrador’s ceremony on Monday....
...Consider the protests against the Panamanian demagogue Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1988, which culminated in a US invasion the following year....
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