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...Miguel Pérez Abad, the country’s economic tsar, recently told Bloomberg that imports would fall to about $20bn this year from $37bn in 2015....
...By Roberto Herrera-Lim of Eurasia Group Foreign investors are again kicking the tyres of the Philippine economy, and with good reason....
...While Mr Lerner’s resignation came as a surprise, Lima has been buzzing with rumours of a reshuffle for weeks, with Carlos Herrera Descalzi, the mining minister; Susana Baca, culture minister; Miguel Caillaux...
...The ministers for agriculture and mining, Miguel Caillaux and Carlos Herrera Descalzi, left a delegation of 20 behind in Andahuaylas, including deputy environment minister Jose de Echave....
...Salomon Lerner Ghitis, a millionaire businessman and one of Humala’s most trusted advisers, will become prime minister, and Carlos Herrera Descazli will oversee mining and energy....
...The appointment of Harvard- and Johns Hopkins-educated Luis Miguel Castilla as finance minister has been greeted as a strong sign of continuity in macro-economic policy....
...Mr Humala is expected to name Carlos Herrera as minister for mines and energy on Thursday....
...Peru’s newly installed finance and mining ministers, Luis Miguel Castilla and Carlos Herrera, have also said Petroperu should be modernised and could be opened to private investment....
...the frontrunner for finance minister, although strange rumours have surfaced that Luis Miguel Castilla, a Harvard-educated economist who resigned as vice minister of finance this week, is a contender....
...The premier also dropped Miguel Angel Moratinos, the foreign minister much criticised by the PP, replacing him with Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera, who was health minister....
...“Importing [petrol] with rising prices is not sustainable,” Mr Herrera says. “But we have little choice.”...
...However, Balbina Herrera, Panama’s housing minister, on Monday said that incidents such as the killing of Sgt Hernandez should be balanced against the 1989 US invasion of Panama....
...“The triumph of Comandante Ortega here is evidently a defeat for the policy of Bush,” says Miguel Gómez, Venezuela’s ambassador to Managua....
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