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...This earned Sarmiento an uncomfortable trip to Medellín to explain himself to Pablo Correa....
...“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....
...María José Rosas, who works in communications, turned out with a group of friends. “We are here to show support for a president who is facing political persecution,” she said....
...María Fernanda Carrascal, a lawmaker from Petro’s party, said that advancing reforms in this congressional term, which ends on June 20, would be difficult....
...China has been Ecuador’s most important financial partner for the past decade, beginning under leftist former president Rafael Correa, who was in office from 2007-2017. 3....
...Arauz, who has the backing of the country’s former president Rafael Correa, took 32.72 per cent of the first-round vote, the National Electoral Committee (CNE) said in a statement....
...Mr Moreno’s election two years ago gave the UK government the opportunity to open new discussions with Quito on how to end the asylum agreement that had been granted by his predecessor, Rafael Correa....
...María Fernanda Espinosa, Ecuador’s foreign minister, said Mr Assange’s request for citizenship on September 16 had been granted on December 12....
...“We can’t celebrate until they’ve officially announced a second round,” said Maria Isabel Pino, 36, in the coastal city of Guayaquil....
...María Eugenia Vidal: the governor tipped as a future president During María Eugenia Vidal’s campaign to become the governor of Buenos Aires province last year, she highlighted how a vote for her would signify...
...The thread of theatrical gloom that runs through the exhibition may have been spun by Leticia and Stanislas Poniatowski, who lent their collection, or by Alexis Fabry, who assembled it (and, with Maria Wills...
...To improve matters, he appointed an outsider as governor of the islands, Maria Isabel Salvador – a former ambassador – and elevated her post to ministerial level....
...Ecuador’s probably most remarkable leader, though, is José María Velasco Ibarra – a liberal and a populist whose career, charisma and multiple presidencies stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s....
...She has also installed career Petrobras engineer, Maria das Graças Foster, as CEO, who has “cleaned out” most of the political appointees, former Petrobras executives say....
...“Cerco is a traditional company but Cesar Riffo [the company’s general manager] wants to have a purpose in his business,” says Maria Emilia Correa, co-founder of Sistema B, the organisation that has spearheaded...
...“Give me a balcony and I will be president,” said José María Velasco, five times president of Ecuador, four times ousted in military coups, and a Latin American populist of the old school....
...But in Paraguay, María Lyz García de Arnold, the new defence minister, this week accused Venezuela’s foreign minister of urging military chiefs to intervene in the impeachment process to keep Mr Lugo in...
...After a short in-house training programme in collaboration with the local government, Angela Maria Amaro Corrêa is now working on the production line along with many other women in their 40s and 50s....
...She is survived by the daughter from her first marriage, María Inés de Lafuente, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren....
...“Philanthropy makes a lot of sense for some things,” says Maria Emilia Correa, an expert in sustainable entrepreneurship....
...Contacts Tierra Estates tel: +54 11 4807 9046, www.tierraestates.com Leticia Firpo tel: +54 11 4343 4414, www.leticiafirpo.com Estancia Villa María estate tel: +54 11 4334 1000, www.estanciavillamaria.com...
...Rafael Correa, president, is asking for $3.6bn over 13 years in return for leaving the reserves in the ground....
...His daughter, Maria, wanders by and he introduces us. She smiles sweetly. Then Chávez and I sit down with his interpreter....
...Additional reporting by Maria Ines Carizosa in Bogota...
...Potential counter-bidders include France’s Lafarge – a 17 per cent shareholder in Cimpor – Mexico’s Cemex or Brazilian rivals Votorantim and Camargo Correa....
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