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...There’s an opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, who’s been gathering momentum....
...“To me the elections are basically just going to be a formality,” said Eduardo Escobar, director of non-profit Acción Ciudadana, adding that the seat changes help Nuevas Ideas....
...“Ecuador is not prepared for this violence, and the security forces and the general population don’t know how to react,” said María Teresa Escobar, who runs the political website Primicias....
...“The rate of absorption of these funds that the European institutions expect does not seem very realistic,” said Chus Escobar, partner responsible for the public sector at EY Spain....
...The country produces more cocaine now than it did in the early 1990s when drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar was at the height of his notoriety....
...“The outlook for negotiations is bleak,” said Maria Luisa Puig, Colombia analyst at the Eurasia Group in London....
...But the peace attempt fails December 1993 Pablo Escobar, at the time the world’s biggest drug lord, is killed by Colombian security forces in Medellín August 1998-February 2002 President Andrés Pastrana...
...During that time, the country has witnessed the rise and fall of drug lord Pablo Escobar, a brutal war between leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries and the armed forces, and now, finally, an uneasy...
...Named La Paloma, it is owned by Jorge Henao and his wife, Maria Elena — Capurganá bar owners who wanted a bolt hole because they fear civilisation will collapse....
...As Botero depicted on canvas, the drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed on the Medellín rooftops in 1993....
...We are auctioning stuff that has been kept in vaults for some 20 years,” says María Mercedes Perry, a Paris-educated lawyer who heads the DNE....
...“She is an example to any entrepreneur,” says María Lucía Roa, the national head of Ashoka, the social innovation programme through which Escobar passed....
...“Young people today feel they have more opportunities than their parents,” says Ana María Otero-Cleves, a 30-something history professor at the city’s Los Andes university....
...After six hours in the saddle, we were warmly greeted by Sergio’s girlfriend María, his son and his two daughters....
...“When I used to knock on the doors of cruise executives, the first thing they said to me was, ‘You’re kidding me’,” says Maria Claudia Lacouture, general manager of Colombia is Passion....
...But Cristóbal Coronel Escobar may provide a clue. I found him outside his humble room with some friends after a day’s work tending cattle....
...Strong singing from Ryan Silverman and Sofia Escobar as Tony and Maria was allied to real intensity of emotion; you have to believe they are in love, and we did, and it helped that they could move with some...
...Armando Real, Maria Madre Island’s director, claims that his prison is proof that both are achievable....
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