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...With the current Petrobras chief executive Caio Mário Paes de Andrade soon to depart after just six months in the job, Lula is expected to name a replacement who shares a similar vision....
...It is this idea that animates Harsh Times, the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa’s 20th work of fiction....
...“There’s a big debate going on in Brazil [on] what’s going to happen to the profitability of the big banks,” said Mario Pierry, an analyst at Bank of America....
...But soon she was also showing Arp, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, as well as the 1970s Op-art darling Victor Vasarely and Latin-Americans such as Jesús Rafael Soto....
...Fighting started to ebb this week after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan held messy talks on de-escalation with the US....
...He is more isolated today than when he was being embraced by the likes of Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa....
...(FT) ECB cuts rates Outgoing European Central Bank president Mario Draghi unleashed the bank’s biggest economic stimulus package in three years on Thursday, cutting interest rates further into negative...
...There are familiar names here: Alvaro Siza, Mario Botta, Rafael Moneo, Toyo Ito, Sanaa and others....
...“His choices suggest that Mr Rajoy has not designed a government for dialogue,” said socialist spokesman Mario Jiménez....
...Other former Goldman bankers currently in government roles include Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister, and Gary Gensler, who heads the US Commodity Futures...
...Energy minister and PDVSA boss Rafael Ramírez said this week that the opposition had a hidden agenda for the oil industry....
...“The supreme court is day by day producing investigations, processes and sentences on some very prominent people,” he said, citing last week’s arrest of Mario Uribe Escobar, the president’s cousin and ally...
..., former head of the tax office, for Tachira; former communications minister Willian Lara for Guarico; Mario Silva, the controversial host of a programme on state television, for Carabobo; possibly former...
...Belatedly, the place has been turned into a memorial, but the original name survives on the front of the building: Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada – the ESMA....
...jonathan.wheatley@gmail.com Death in Rio The horrific murder of a six-year-old boy in Rio de Janeiro has thrown a shadow over this year’s Carnaval celebrations....
...Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat, a fictionalised portrait of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, came second....
...All were in the colonial town south of Rio de Janeiro to attend the Festa Literaria Internacional de Parati (FLIP)....
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