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...Rafael leads a black mule with four white legs – a rare cuatro alba – loaded with the day’s saddlebags; Felipo is an old classmate of George’s sister....
..., said Adonai Gutiérrez, a supermarket cashier in Bogotá. “There’s an alternative leftwing to the Farc, a left that’s more responsible and which doesn’t have blood on its hands....
...But the vote was too close to call on Monday, with the anointed candidate of leftwing President Rafael Correa nearing the margin needed to avoid a second round against Guillermo Lasso, a conservative former...
.../ From Bernabé Gutiérrez, Washington, DC, US...
...“What the world is seeing is the way building is done in Brazil,” said Rafael Alcadipani, an academic at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
...This helped place him ahead of his main rivals, conservative Guillermo Lasso, a banker, and Lucio Gutiérrez, a former president who was ousted in a popular revolt in 2005....
...Being surrounded by left-leaning neighbours with a penchant for resource nationalism, such as Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela and Rafael Correa’s Ecuador, also played a role in diverting investments towards Colombia...
...Established in 1988, the Fundación Mapfre began building its collection a year later with 100 works by the high-profile art deco illustrator Rafael de Penagos (1889-1954)....
...Ecuadorean armed forces rescued Rafael Correa, the president, amid a hail of bullets after a tense stand-off with police officers who had trapped the leftist leader in a hospital for hours....
...Ecuador has begun a promised purge of police leadership after disgruntled officers attacked Rafael Correa, the Opec nation’s leftwing president, and held him captive for a day....
...Opposition leader and former president Lucio Gutiérrez, who was himself deposed by a coup, was in Brasília during the revolt and denies the accusation....
...Rafael Correa limps into a wood-panelled room in Ecuador’s presidential palace and sinks into a gold-leaf rococo chair beneath portraits of Latin American independence heroes....
...Rafael Correa’s face is everywhere in the final days of the leftwing populist’s campaign to become the first Ecuadorean president in more than a century to win two successive terms....
...Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s leftwing populist president, won a second consecutive term in office on Sunday night, pledging to continue his “socialist revolution” ....
...Ecuador’s voters handed their leftist President Rafael Correa an unprecedented third straight electoral victory on Sunday, providing him with a surprisingly ample majority in an upcoming assembly to rewrite...
...Ricardo Gutiérrez, a socialist politician who joined a steady stream of defectors from the Chávez camp after the constitutional changes were announced, agrees....
...Former Ecuadorean president Lucio Gutierrez said that the crisis risked taking a turn for the worse....
...And Mr Correa has at least one very popular political rival: Lucio Gutiérrez, whose party had a strong showing in last year’s general elections....
...With Mr Gutiérrez already alleging that the president harbours totalitarian ambitions, the fight could be a bitter and protracted one....
...And it looks a fair bet that Rafael Correa, the radical ally of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez who takes office on Monday, will also fail to last the full four years....
...The Ecuadorian government under President Rafael Correa has not moved to nationalise the oil business, but has made it clear that it is not interested in major new exploration in its rainforest....
...Rafael Correa may have triumphed in Sunday’s run-off election but he will begin his term on January 15 in a more isolated and weak position position than any of his three predecessors....
...Rafael Correa, the leftwing nationalist he will face in a run-off on November 26, was trying so hard to smile that it was obvious he was attempting to cover his disappointment of having been relegated to...
...On Sunday, 56-year-old Mr Noboa hopes to overturn his losing streak and beat Rafael Correa, a radical leftist, in a presidential run-off election. But old habits die hard....
...Rafael Correa, a radical nationalist closely linked to Hugo Chávez, the anti-American firebrand president of Venezuela, looks set to top the poll, although he is forecast to fall short of the 40 per cent...
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