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...Letter in response to this article: Why Latin America is ‘non-aligned’ on Ukraine / From Jorge Heine, Former Chilean Cabinet Minister, Boston, MA, US...
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador ruled out going after Washington refused to invite the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela because they were not democracies....
...That happened in Colombia, where Juan Manuel Santos broke with his mentor Álvaro Uribe, and more recently in Ecuador, where current president Lenín Moreno has fallen out in spectacular style with Rafael...
...In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in government after twice failing at the ballot box....
...Peru’s new interim president is the head of congress, Manuel Merino....
...In their recent efforts to rein in leading internet tycoons, such as Jack Ma of Ant Group (net worth $48bn), Beijing appears to be reasserting control....
...Podcast of the day Mexico’s populist president When Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as Amlo, took office in late 2018 he promised to transform the country....
...“Spanish intellectuals have never really felt the Basques to be alien in identity but more like wayward cousins,” says Andreu Mas-Colell, a former Harvard economics professor who was the Generalitat’s economy...
...Argentina’s austerity plans will not be enough to stem its economic crisis, crimped the market’s appetite for other EM risk, said Alejandro Saldaña, director of economic analysis at Mexican bank Ve Por Más...
...(FT) Mexico’s new leader faces clash with Trump Andrés Manuel López Obrador has built his political career on defending the poor....
...Ve Por Más, a Mexican bank, said it considered the rise in inflation to be temporary and to come down soon....
...“This is producing a social rupture in Catalonia and this has to be resolved through dialogue, never via unilateralism,” said Jose Manuel Garcia, 61, an economist wearing white at one march....
...June 2011 In the midst of the European financial crisis and anger about austerity measures, Catalan President Artur Mas Mas had to be airlifted by helicopter to parliament as it was surrounded by protesters...
...Michel Camdessus Paris, France José Manuel Campa Madrid, Spain Edwin M....
...“I’m just sick of it,” says Manuel, a middle-aged bank manager in Madrid. “I want it all just to stop.”...
...Christopher Smart Boston, MA, US Edwin M Truman Washington, DC, US Stephanie Tsantes Lewes, DE, US Nicolas Véron Washington, DC, US and Paris, France Geoffrey Woglom Amherst, MA, US * Robert...
...“MA’s objective will be to win public opinion,” FTI said, recommending a counter-attack....
...head in the region – meaning Mr Mas may be headed for new elections....
...On Sunday, Colombians gave a second mandate to President Juan Manuel Santos, who hopes to finish a peace process with the country’s Farc rebels and draw a line under five decades of armed conflict....
...She advises that women could be addressed as “Ma’am”, “Ma”, “Madam” or “Aunty” and older, senior business acquaintances should not be addressed by first names....
...José Manuel Lara, chairman of the publisher Grupo Planeta, said he would shift the company’s headquarters away from Barcelona to Madrid if the region chose to become independent....
...This is what José Manuel Barroso, Commission president, skilfully did this week when questioned on September’s Scottish independence referendum, to the indignation of Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister...
...Sales at Jack Ma’s online retailer Alibaba exceed those of Amazon and eBay combined....
...Not so, said commission President Jose Manuel Barroso over the weekend. He insisted that his position on seceded territories has not changed....
...José Manuel García-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister, said the election result was “a good result for Catalonia, Spain and Europe”....
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