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...Celso Maldaner, a federal lawmaker with the MDB, or Brazilian Democratic Movement, which claimed 784 mayorships in the municipals polls, underlined that his party was a “protagonist of the reforms” needed...
...Argentina, Flores found, had possession just 55 per cent of the time, compared with 68 per cent for Barça....
...Photographs: Nara Roesler Gallery, Mario Grisolli...
...For this art deco visionary, born in 1860 in a tiny Champagne hamlet, beauty chiefly meant “la femme, la faune et la flore”....
...When Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuit community in the Argentine city of Córdoba in the early 1990s, the roof of the college needed fixing but the finances were in a terrible state and the priests...
...Bolivia’s state news agency reported that the dead men were Ariad Mayarosi of Romania, Michael Martin Duayer of Ireland and Jorge Hurtado Flores of Bolivia, and that two men, Mario Tadik of Bolivia and Iedad...
...Two Uefa Cups were won in the early 1960s, and in 1971 they claimed the league title under the stewardship of manager Alfredo Di Stéfano, with the Argentine Mario Kempes leading the attack....
...At this point in previous electoral cycles, polls showed two “establishment” candidates in the lead: the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in 1995....
...Anyone betting on a victory by Ms Flores needs to think very carefully about the downside....
...This was reflected in the first round, in which Mr García only managed to squeeze through with about 60,000 votes more than Lourdes Flores, his rightwing rival who ran a lacklustre campaign....
...Lourdes Flores, the conservative frontrunner with a dwindling lead over the former soldier, is taking her second tilt at the presidency....
...When Mr Flores backed out this month, the US supported another rightwinger Luis Ernesto Derbez, Mexico's foreign minister....
...If Mercosur wants to become a true common market, as it intends, both sides needs to do more to tackle structural problems, argues Mário Marconini, a trade consultant in São Paulo....
...Celso Amorim, Brazil's foreign minister, who held the same job a decade ago, is in no doubt about the change in the national mood. “There is a new self-awareness that just wasn't there before....
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