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...Evo Morales, who has resigned (November 11) as Bolivia’s president, would have left office with his head held high if he had not clung on for 14 years....
...Indeed, Evo Morales in Bolivia remains anchored to power; so does Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Dési Bouterse in Suriname, and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela....
...“Bolivia might not be Nicaragua or Venezuela just yet, but Morales is certainly following in Ortega’s and Maduro’s footsteps,” said Centa B Rek, a lawyer at the Human Rights Foundation in New York....
...“The same thing happened with Evo Morales in Bolivia or with [Daniel] Ortega in Nicaragua. Today, from here, the PAN is warning of the risks,” he added....
...Harley Morales, a member of the opposition civic alliance which includes business and student leaders, said that he expected pragmatism in the end....
...Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has allied himself with the US while Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega is a longtime leftist foe of Washington....
...From Peron and Pinochet to Ortega and Morales, charismatic strongmen have been a feature of regimes throughout the rest of the continent, with differing results. Only now is the US catching up....
...Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa is accused of accepting money from an illegal armed group, and in Bolivia, Evo Morales has faced mass protests after pushing through constitutional changes to run...
...fear he will try to stick to power like Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua....
...Daniel Ortega, a former leader of the Sandinista guerrillas, is still firmly in charge of Nicaragua after winning a landslide election victory in November....
...Those who have confirmed their attendance have mostly been on the radical left, including Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega....
...In the build-up to the trip, Cuban cardinal Jaime Ortega gave a 45-minute TV interview, and state TV on Thursday night ran a video message to the Cuban people from Francis....
...(Mr Morales has promised not to run for a fourth.) Elections are a weak instrument of national renewal when the incumbent is on the ballot....
...In Latin America, as Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote: “Everyone lives as though his dreams of the future were already reality.”...
...The offer from Mr Morales comes a day after two other Latin American presidents, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, said they were willing to grant Mr Snowden asylum, boosting his...
...He is often linked to the region’s Hugo Chávez-Evo Morales-Daniel Ortega trio of muscular leftist leaders, although anyone who has met Mr Correa acknowledges he has a quick mind, and a solid training as...
...President Evo Morales of Bolivia, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and José Mujica of Uruguay were all expected to take part in a government-organised rally on Thursday, while other regional allies including Argentina...
...But in a city sometimes called the “capital of Latin America” there are also pockets of hostility to Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega....
...Col Gaddafi has responded in kind by showering official honours on Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, and especially fellow Opec member Venezuela....
...His ally, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, followed suit by expelling the US ambassador to Caracas, and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua says he will reject an invitation to meet President George...
...’s Daniel Ortega....
...As yet, Mr Ortega has not proved that he is either. Adam Thomson...
...He also struck an alliance with Jaime Morales, a former “contra” negotiator and businessman, and now Mr Ortega’s vice-president....
...Mr Morales said Mr Ortega plans to recover up to US$500m in bonds that the central bank issued to the three private banks....
...Preval and Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega at the podium in the Plaza of the Revolution....
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