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...Surveying its placid blue surface, Rafael Chacón Llorente, Iberdrola’s project director at the complex, said: “When the water level is at 885 metres above sea level, the battery is fully charged.”Then in...
...“He is concentrating on the projects he offered the people,” said Rafael Espino de la Peña, a Morena senator. “You can be for it or against, but what isn’t right is to say he’s changed his behaviour....
...“A young man will come in, offer to protect you as if he were Robin Hood, in exchange for you letting him sell drugs on the premises,” said Rafael — not his real name — who runs restaurants in 22 of Mexico...
...Mr López Obrador is waging war on something his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto, once dismissed as Mexico’s “cultural” problem: corruption. He already says he is making great progress....
...per cent in afternoon trade amid questions over whether Mr López Obrador — a leftwing nationalist — will govern from the centre and continue with the reforms initiated under outgoing President Enrique Peña...
...The PRI returned to office in 2012 under President Enrique Peña Nieto. Mexico has never had a coalition government....
...Created in 1938 when the industry was nationalised, president Enrique Peña Nieto calls Pemex the “pride” of Mexico. Though long blighted by corruption allegations, it is too big to fail....
...Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord who was freed from prison in 2013 on a technicality, has vanished since his release....
...The energy reform — which the government hopes will reel in more than $50bn by 2018 — is the crux of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plans to modernise Mexico....
...It seems not, even if those were the words Venezuela’s foreign minister, Rafael Ramírez, penned in a statement this month....
...Police commissioner William Bratton also visited the memorial where officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed....
...“It is a highly politicised process,” said John Padilla of IPD Latin America, an energy consultancy....
...Mr Peña Nieto will already go down in history as the man who dared to reverse the oil nationalisation that Mexicans had been taught to revere....
...“Peña Nieto knows he has to put something real on the table . . . it’s a case of energy reform or bust,” said Mr Padilla. “But it could always be watered down.”...
...Rafael Caro Quintero, an old-time drugs boss who walked free from jail on a technicality in August after 28 years inside, was cheeky enough to write to Mr Peña Nieto last month urging him to resist US pressure...
...Mexico’s historic vote to open its oil and gas sector to private investment after 75 years yoked to the state is a political coup for Enrique Peña Nieto, the reform-minded president....
...“The reform may be more conservative than some may have liked, but it is part of the consensus-building path to change that Peña Nieto takes,” said John Padilla, of IPD Latin America, an energy consultancy...
...Freed on a technicality 12 years early, after 28 years in jail in connection with the kidnap and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Rafael Caro Quintero vanished....
...But Mr Padilla says this must happen if Mexico wants oil to spur higher economic growth....
...“No one is talking about the electricity reform, but that will have a bigger general effect on the economy,” said Rafael Ch at Cidac, a think-tank....
...John Padilla, managing director of IPD Latin America, an energy consultancy, argues that overstaffing is one of the company’s principal problems....
...Mismanagement has bankrupted the notion that Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is a valid economic model for other countries to follow; Ecuador’s Rafael Correa has clamped down on the local...
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