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...Mr Díaz-Canel, who turns 58 on Friday, represents a new generation taking charge from the so-called “historic generation” that led the struggle against the dictator Fulgencio Batista....
...They included two brothers from the Batista family, Joesley and Wesley Batista....
...Mr Temer has denied the allegations, which were made as part of a plea bargain by Mr Batista....
...Less likely candidates could include the present finance minister, Henrique Meirelles, Pedro Parente, the competent boss of state-owned oil company, Petrobras, and some judges....
...But Batista’s trappings turned out to be modest compared with what was hoarded by those involved in the Petrobras case....
...put option will not be honoured (since it would require Batista to buy shares at more than three times the price he has just sold them for).21st June 2013 – Pedro Malan, Rodolpho Tourinho Neto, a former...
...But three of the five directors – Pedro Malan, a former finance minister; Rodolpho Tourinho Neto, a former mining minister; and Ellen Gracie, a former Supreme Court judge – left OGX in June with no explanation...
...Three of OGX’s five independent board members, including the country’s former finance minister Pedro Malan, have left Eike Batista’s oil producer as investors flee the company....
...Three weeks ago three of OGX’s five independent board members, including the country’s former finance minister Pedro Malan, left the company, raising doubts about a closely watched $1bn lifeline Mr Batista...
...“Petronas is a large operational company in the sector with expertise in the area so the deal does give us a little more confidence,” said Pedro Galdi, an analyst at SLW Corretora in São Paulo....
...“The strong dollar benefits the exporters but we have to see which companies have what foreign exchange debts,” says Pedro Galdi of SLW Corretora in São Paulo....
...“He hasn’t delivered on his promises and the market has got tired of it,” says Pedro Galdi at SLW brokerage in São Paulo....
...Pedro Galdi, an analyst at SLW Corretora in São Paulo, said Mr Batista probably chose to delist CCX to avoid a repeat of what happened with OGX. “It seems like a protective move,” he said....
...“These offerings are more to test the market,” said Pedro Galdi, chief strategist at SLW Corretora, a broker in São Paulo....
...Meanwhile, IBM and Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista’s EBX are also planning a joint-venture chip company But Unitec is marketing itself aggressively as a pioneer and Mr Gainza Eurnekian says: “There’s...
...Some 12 miles north of here, in the year 1500, Pedro Alvares Cabral became the first European to set foot in what would become the largest country of South America, and claimed it for the Portuguese crown...
...“It is quite simple,” explains Pedro Henrique H.F. de Cristo, the founder of the Cidade Unida, a social movement that brings together organisations from Rio’s various favelas....
...“Local content is going to be a huge issue,” says Pedro Cordeiro, a partner at Bain. The biggest strain is expected to be on Brazil’s local shipbuilding industry....
...Pedro Torres, who co-wrote the El Diario editorial, said he was considering sending his family to El Paso, just across the border in Texas. “Life here is very distressing,” he says....
...MMX, created in 2005 by Eike Batista, a billionaire entrepreneur, raised $509m when it floated in June 2006....
...Batista fled the country, as did most wealthy Cubans. It was only in 1962, after Castro declared himself a communist, that JFK imposed the embargo that remains in place today....
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