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...Luis Manuel Díaz was released unharmed on November 9 but about 25 other hostages remain in ELN captivity, according to non-party conflict monitoring group Cerac....
...She will face stiff competition from the former mayor of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, former health minister Alejandro Gaviria and Juan Manuel Galán, whose father Luis Carlos Galán was a famous liberal assassinated...
...President Nicolás Maduro has tightened his grip on Venezuela after winning control of the legislature in elections boycotted by most of the opposition and condemned by the US as a “fraud and a sham”....
...In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in government after twice failing at the ballot box....
...Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro was among many to tweet their congratulations. Analysts said, however, that Mr Arce could face a difficult time in power....
...Despite popular opposition to the move, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador welcomed his Bolivian “brother”....
...One high-ranking official, Manuel Cristopher Figuera, the head of the feared intelligence service, did defect....
...“People are waiting for the sales,” said José Luis Hernández, a kitchen goods salesman who says he has also cut back on his personal spending. “There’s been a big drop....
...“The people of Nicaragua are suffering one of the most serious human rights crises the region has seen in the last decades,” Luis Almagro, OAS secretary-general tweeted as representatives met to discuss...
...Will Guido Sandleris, who this week took over from Luis Caputo, last?...
...A red-shirted mob of President Nicolás Maduro’s attack dogs responded in typical style....
...Two teenage protesters were killed in the run-up to the Cancún gathering and the Costa Rican foreign minister, Manuel González Sanz, said their blood had stained the OAS meeting....
...Luis Videgaray, Mexico’s foreign minister, followed in August, reportedly offering subsidised Mexican oil as a substitute for Venezuelan crude....
...Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Manuel González Sanz, said the OAS had split into two camps and “we will be reproached” for failure to reach agreement....
...“I voted Yes because the peace deal would have saved us from many more years of bloodshed,” says Luis Ospina, whose father was kidnapped and killed by paramilitaries....
...OAS’ Secretary General Luis Almagro urged regional governments to “stay on the right side of history and defend people who are voiceless.”...
...In the 92nd minute, the visitors’ striker Luis Suárez was fouled in the penalty box and the referee duly blew his whistle....
...simon.kuper@ft.com; Twitter @KuperSimon Illustration by Luis Grañena...
...The shortages have helped drag down Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos’s approval rating to a historic low of 25 per cent, well below even that of Nicolás Maduro (33 per cent), the unpopular leader of...
...Meanwhile, the land of liberty lives under a state of emergency expected to continue (according to prime minister Manuel Valls) until Isis is defeated....
...Last week opposition politician Luis Manuel Díaz was shot dead at a rally. Ms Tintori, who was standing next to him, was splashed with blood. “They want to kill me,” she told the Financial Times....
...leaders from the largest eurozone countries (France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany’s Angela Merkel, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi) all regular attendees....
..., with telephone calls to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish prime minister....
...At the same time, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was expected to hold telephone calls with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, in an effort...
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Madrid....
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