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...Agustin Intriago, the mayor of port city Manta, was assassinated at a public event in late July, and Pedro Briones, an organiser loyal to Correa, was shot dead in Esmeraldas, a violent coastal province on...
...China has been Ecuador’s most important financial partner for the past decade, beginning under leftist former president Rafael Correa, who was in office from 2007-2017. 3....
...“It feels like every candidate has been trying to out-do the other with their promises,” said Pedro Quispe, a public administrator, as he sat on a bench in the sunshine in Quito’s historic old town....
...Leading cartoonist Pedro X. Molina summed up the week with a drawing of demonstrators facing a security guard on the telephone....
...The Quito-based political analyst Simón Pachano forecasts “a very narrow result”, similar to the one in Peru last year, when Pedro Pablo Kuczynski defeated Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced autocrat...
...founder Julian Assange would be “cordially” given a month to leave Ecuador’s embassy in London, could then join the ranks of the businessmen-turned-presidents, such as Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, Peru’s Pedro...
...Mr Lasso, who forged a career in finance despite not holding a university degree, has cultivated ties with Argentina’s Mauricio Macri and Peru’s Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who broadly share his ideology....
...Cambuhy Investimentos was co-established by Pedro Moreira Salles, from one of the families that controls the country’s largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco....
...Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peru’s current president, has not been touched so far, even though he served in the Toledo administration, but his popularity has slumped to 35 per cent from 60 per cent at its peak...
...“For a state-owned company, having an M&A area . . . was a completely new experience,” said Petrobras’s new chief executive, Pedro Parente, in a recent interview with the FT....
...This week police formally charged the head of the company, Marcelo Odebrecht, with corruption, while a court convicted three former executives of construction group Camargo Corrêa for involvement in Car...
...Camargo Corrêa, Engevix and Mendes Júnior also said they had not yet been notified and declined further comment. Galvão Engenharia declined to comment....
...Pedro Delgado, the president’s cousin, stepped down as head of the central bank last year after confessing he did not have a university economics degree....
...Pedro Páez, Ecuador’s antitrust chief, told Bloomberg he is looking into whether the nation’s largest banks colluded last year in sending e-mails and placing phone calls about the proposed new tax – meant...
...The IPO proceeds will also help Votorantim Cimentos maintain its lead over its rivals – namely France’s Lafarge, Switzerland’s Holcim and Brazil’s Camargo Corrêa – in what is still a closed market....
...On Wednesday afternoon, Pedro Delgado, the cousin of Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, and the Andean country’s central bank president, stepped down after confessing that he did not hold a university degree...
...Correa and Pedro Delgado, governor of the central bank and the president’s cousin, have long been at odds with banks, blaming them for a financial crisis in the late 1990s that sparked hyperinflation....
...A buoyant Mr Humala has toned down his rhetoric since 2006, when he very nearly joined a sweep of leftist victories that installed Rafael Correa as president in Ecuador, Evo Morales in Bolivia and reconfirmed...
...“We’re seeing an extremely favourable environment in terms of prices and demand for iron ore producers at the moment,” said Pedro Galdi, mining analyst at SLW Corretora, a São Paulo brokerage....
...Potential counter-bidders include France’s Lafarge – a 17 per cent shareholder in Cimpor – Mexico’s Cemex or Brazilian rivals Votorantim and Camargo Correa....
...dozens of businessmen, politicians and local officials brought to light by a judicial investigation known as Operation Gürtel (the name comes from the German translation of the family name of Francisco Correa...
...“I would put my hand in the fire for Renan Calheiros,” said fellow PMDB senator Pedro Simon. “Well, not put my hand in the fire. But I trust him.” Other displays of support have been less convincing....
...Ecuador, whose president, Rafael Correa, is close to Mr Chávez, last week expelled the bank’s representative....
...Pedro Correa, corporate manager at Escondida, sounded a more cautious note, however, saying no agreement had yet been reached....
...“We will use all means to try to increase the capacity of our production,” said Pedro Correa, corporate manager at Escondida....
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