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...Seeking to bolster morale among delegates, Hands insisted that he had detected “no enthusiasm” for, and “even less trust in”, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on the doorstep....
...It seems to be a small clutch of red wall MPs, the New Conservatives, the new grouping of rightwingers led by Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates....
...Mexico’s asylum tradition goes hand-in-hand with a doctrine of non-intervention formulated in 1930 by foreign minister Genaro Estrada, right around the time another Bolivian president, Hernando Siles Reyes...
...But Miriam González Durántez argues in this penetrating piece that the nation has become merely a battlefield for the US to play out its rivalries with the EU and China....
...For 35-year-old Miriam Kwamboka, a water vendor who lives in the slum, Sanergy has been life-changing....
...Most importantly, Colombia’s 380,000-strong army has weakened Farc morale, disrupted its communications and killed senior commanders, including, this week, Danilo García....
...(Indeed, Mr Reyes Villa himself has recently been put on an Interpol wanted list.) Still, not all exiles are so extreme....
...his nearest rival, Manfred Reyes Villa....
...In Santa Cruz, Mr Reyes won an estimated 44 per cent of the vote, and Mr Morales 39 per cent....
...Mr Morales’s closest rival, Manfred Reyes Villa, is trailing with 18 per cent approval and has, according to local media, already bought a flight ticket to the US dated December 7, the day after the election...
...This stands at 52 per cent – well ahead of his nearest opponent, Manfred Reyes Villa, with 21 per cent....
...Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president, said a decision by any Latin American leader to allow US bases would be a “treasonable act”....
...But despite recent advances, such as last year’s rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the Franco-Colombian politician, and 13 Farc hostages, with the killing of Raul Reyes, the former Farc leader, in a controversial...
...While Mr Chávez is Colombia’s most outspoken critic, other leaders from the region have also voiced concern, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, Evo Morales of...
...In Cochabamba, tensions ran high when Manfred Reyes Villa, the governor, refused to acknowledge his defeat at the polls, saying the recall vote was illegal....
...In Cochabamba, tensions ran high when Manfred Reyes Villa, the governor, refused to acknowledge his defeat at the polls, saying the re-call vote was illegal....
...Marulanda enjoyed a cult-like status among his troops and his death is likely to dampen morale and prompt further desertions....
...Manfred Reyes Villa, the prefect of Cochabamba, has called for a rival referendum to overturn the draft constitution and force Mr Morales to quit....
...Senior Farc commander Raúl Reyes was killed during Saturday’s raid....
...On Monday, protests demanding Mr Reyes Villa’s resignation turned violent after police fired tear gas at demonstrators attempting to storm the prefecture....
...After two days of protests in La Paz, Mr Morales agreed to freeze taxes paid by mining co-operatives....
...As Miriam Leitão, columnist and radio commentator, pointed out, overconfidence is the mother of all other mistakes, in politics as in football....
...Mr Uribe sought to downplay the idea that a counter-offensive by the Farc, which is estimated to group about 15,000 combatants and is deemed a foreign “terrorist” group by the US, will damage national morale...
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