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...Iván Duque, the current president, personifies that investor-friendly stance....
...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....
...So President Iván Duque wants to start aerial spraying again to kill crops. The problem is, that uses glyphosate, a probable carcinogen....
...“Whether it’s Noriega, Pablo Escobar or “El Chapo” Guzmán, it never ends well.”...
...Aerial surveys suggest there are now about 200,000 hectares of land under coca cultivation — five times as many as in the early 1990s when drug lord Pablo Escobar was at the height of his notoriety....
...So too could Mr Duque’s hardline foreign minister Carlos Holmes....
...Lunch with the FT: Mario Vargas Llosa — ‘Love always comes at a price’ Why rightwinger Bolsonaro was elected in Brazil . . ....
...The case puts Mr Duque in a tricky position....
...Speakers include Mario Draghi and Jay Powell....
...Duque takes lead into Colombian presidential run-off...
...Vásquez loyally salutes the luminaries of Latin American literature’s golden years — Mario Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and more....
...“Even a ruthless drug-kingpin Pablo Escobar was more benevolent than Timochenko.”...
...“There have been a great number of concessions,” warns Iván Duque, a member of Mr Uribe’s No camp....
...Even 38-year-old centre-back Mario Yepes is coping. The Cafeteros’ group dance after goals expresses their collectivism....
...“I didn’t want anyone to feel the same pain as I did,” Escobar has said. She set up the Fundación Juan Felipe Gómez Escobar, named after her son, shortly after....
...“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...
...Finally, there are political scandals – most recently, the arrest of Mario Uribe Escobar, the president’s cousin, over alleged links to paramilitary groups....
...The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, Eta in Spain, Pablo Escobar in Colombia: all have used car bombs....
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