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...The president doesn’t even touch the local delicacy, getting lost instead in a story about how he angered Cuba’s Fidel Castro soon after winning his first election....
...At the core of Latin American populism, he says (also seen in the rhetoric of other leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez), is an idea that “the poor are the custodians of a pure...
...Some lesser known names will also be there, including Washington’s governor Jay Inslee, former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro, and Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard....
...As for politics: four years ago, I was amazed, as were many, when Mauricio Macri unexpectedly won Argentina’s presidency. He was young, apparently sensible and open-minded....
...The second, which included Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, were intransigent ideologues from “the great tradition of Latin American populism”....
...“He knows Maduro and Venezuela, he knows Raúl Castro, and he knows Donald Trump and the US state department.”...
...They were joined by John Kerry, US secretary of state, and the presidents, from Cuba’s Raúl Castro to Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, who flew into Cartagena to witness the end of the western hemisphere’s oldest...
...His exploits in the 1986 World Cup have made him a national hero forever, and he is a Chávez and Castro fan....
...Castro set to stand down Raúl Castro is due to step down as president of Cuba, the first time a Castro has not held the post since the start of the revolution almost 60 years ago....
..., last week also named Mauricio Claver-Carone, a political lobbyist and lawyer who has criticised normalisation of US-Cuban relations, to his transition team at the Treasury Department....
...He added: “At home I also have a long interview with Fidel Castro on my desk, because I’m curious to understand how people have built such mistaken doctrines.”...
...The new president, Mauricio Macri, has tried to restore relationships, and this is the thaw Debernardi has seized on....
...In Argentina, Mauricio Macri is paying a high price in popularity for the painful adjustments he has initiated....
...The talks will start in Quito on October 27 and may be led by the former Colombian ambassador to the UK, Mauricio Rodríguez....
...December 1: Cubans line the streets as Fidel Castro’s funeral cortege makes its cross-country journey from Havana to Santiago de Cuba....
...Whether Cuba’s authoritarian system manages to survive or not, the one certainty is that the island has to prepare itself for a future beyond the shadow of the Castro brothers....
...With Havana, too, Brazil took a long view of Cuba’s transition from the rule of the Castro brothers. But now much of South America is swinging to the political centre....
...At Monday’s joint press conference with Raúl Castro, he handled himself nimbly, while his host bungled a question about political prisoners....
...“Without Plan Colombia we wouldn’t be where we are now, negotiating the end of the conflict,” Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister, told the Financial Times as he left for Washington....
...Colombia’s finance minister, Mauricio Cárdenas, believes a peace dividend could be worth some 2 percentage points of economic output to Latin America’s third-largest economy....
...“It’s a bad joke,” adds fellow bystander Mauricio, who works in the tourist trade....
...“Reaching this grade is a landmark for Colombia,” said Mauricio Cárdenas, the finance minister....
...El Salvador’s president, Mauricio Funes, has suspended all mining operations. He is a left-winger....
...“Without the drive of Lula’s international popularity, it is reasonable to expect some deflation of the assertive rhetoric and its repercussions,” suggests Brookings scholar Mauricio Cárdenas....
...“Our only option is to make bilateral deals,” says José Augusto de Castro, vice president of trade association AEB....
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