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...“We are really happy with this new transformation . . . because our president has a vision, he is really looking out for Mexicans,” said university professor Margarita Ángel Esparra after casting her vote...
...“We didn’t want to leave Venezuela,” says Nellyisa Lopez Fuenmayor, 50, who was sheltering with her family at a UNHCR camp in the Maicao area....
...Margarita’s is floating and Bronco is starting to exist,” tweeted Andrés Lajous, a sociologist and political commentator who is now an adviser to the Mexico City mayoral campaign of Mr López Obrador’s party...
...Margarita Zavala, Mexico’s former first lady who was running as an independent in the July 1 election has quit the race after failing to build support....
...So too did Margarita Zavala, the former first lady and potentially the last independent left in the race, but overall she still had enough to qualify, the electoral commission ruled last week....
...“Let’s hope he wins so we can try out his proposals and, perhaps, see a change,” says Margarita López Aguilar, hawking trinkets on the waterfront in the tourist resort of Los Cabos....
...Something unlikely happened in Mexico this week: Radical leftist presidential frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador and independent conservative former first lady Margarita Zavala agreed on something....
...Margarita Zavala, a former first lady of Mexico, has quit the opposition National Action Party (PAN) after clashing with its leader, opening the prospect that she could seek to run for president on an independent...
...A number of independent hopefuls, including former first lady Margarita Zavala, are working to amass the almost 1m signatures needed to endorse their candidacies....
...A number of independent candidates, including former PAN first lady Margarita Zavala, are seeking to garner the nearly 1m signatures required to endorse their bids....
...“I want to tell Margarita that I am convinced Mexico is much bigger than any one of us individually....
...Mr López Obrador has so far emerged as the man to beat in the July 1 vote....
...Margarita Zavala, who like Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, former legislator and presidential consort, is expected to square off against Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a hard-left candidate with a Donald Trump-like...
...In the PAN, Mr Anaya, former first lady Margarita Zavala and Rafael Moreno Valle, a former governor of the state of Puebla, have been jockeying for position as the party’s standard-bearer....
...On the left, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says negotiations should wait until after our 2018 elections because the current president is too weak to negotiate successfully....
...The opposition National Action party has not decided whether its leader Ricardo Anaya Cortés, or Mr Calderón’s wife, Margarita Zavala, should be its candidate....
...In Mexico, maverick populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador also praised Castro....
...Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López tweeted from his detention cell: “We are in the final moments of this democratic fight. Do not give up; I never will!”...
...“Compared to Chávez, Maduro has no charisma, no popularity and no political capacity,” says Margarita López Maya, a political analyst with the Central University of Venezuela....
...“There is growing frustration even within the [pro-government] chavista bases,” says Margarita López Maya, a historian at the Central University of Venezuela....
...This is part of their scheme to advance with their statist model, [it] is the practice of President Chávez that Maduro is now willing to use with any justification,” said Margarita López Maya, a historian...
...Margarita López Maya, a historian at the Central University of Venezuela, argues that it is essential for the opposition to remain united....
...But the country will still need private investment to develop its Sabalo, Itau, Margarita and San Alberto fields to increase production in the medium term....
...“I’m not convinced that the law can remove a politician’s right to run for office without a firm sentence,” said Margarita López Maya, a left-leaning political analyst....
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