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...“I want to reiterate that the candidate for the presidency is me, Luisa González, and not Rafael Correa,” she said in a debate held ahead of the run-off vote....
...With nearly 92 per cent of ballot boxes counted on Monday, González — a former lawmaker loyal to socialist former president Rafael Correa — had 33 per cent of the votes, followed by Noboa with 23 per cent...
...Glas was Correa’s vice-president and Luisa González, who lost to Noboa last year, was backed by Correa. González on Saturday called on Noboa to resign over the embassy raid....
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...“My main adviser will be Rafael Correa,” she told Telesur, a leftwing news channel funded by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua....
...González had campaigned on a platform of social spending similar to that of her mentor Rafael Correa, whose tenure as president from 2007-17 coincided with a commodities boom, heavy public spending and a...
...proximity to socialist former president Rafael Correa, who is living in Belgium to avoid a corruption conviction....
...of former president Rafael Correa....
...Villavicencio, formerly a reporter who uncovered graft during the governments of Rafael Correa, had long been a target of the former socialist president’s ire....
..., a protégé of former president Rafael Correa, against Daniel Noboa, the son of Álvaro Noboa, a billionaire banana magnate....
...Leftist Luisa González was the frontrunner in the polls ahead of a media blackout earlier this month....
...A day earlier, they had said that his running mate Andrea González would take his place. She will remain a candidate for vice-president....
...Correa’s chosen candidate, Luisa González, has become the early frontrunner thanks to his endorsement. Read more on Ecuador’s upcoming election. 5....
...“In order to be a great old wine a wine needs to have been a great young one first,” González Byass cellar master Antonio Flores told me as I dipped a venencia — a pipe-shaped instrument for extracting wine...
...Flores, working in Kentucky, was unimpressed....
...Maduro said he had been joined in the meeting by his wife Cilia Flores, a lawyer and congresswoman, and Jorge Rodríguez, head of the Venezuelan congress and Maduro’s former vice-president....
...Flowers are one of Ecuador’s biggest exports but getting hold of the roses and astromelias cultivated on the outskirts of Quito has become almost impossible for florist Kairo Gonzalez....
...For emerging artists in the 1950s and ’60s, the capital was the place to be — with the newly established tablaos attracting the likes of Camarón de la Isla, Lola Flores and Enrique Morente....
...The classic, comfortable furnishings and Belle Époque architecture have been maintained by Spanish architect Rafael de La-Hoz and French designers Gilles & Boissier....
...Demonstrating her friend Susy Atondo Gastélum’s favourite dish, Erika Acosta González de-veins shrimps, chops cucumbers and squeezes lemons....
...“The real key of the recovery plan is not the total amount but our ability to choose the right kind of projects,” said Rafael Doménech, head of economic analysis at BBVA, the Spanish bank....
...The 36-year-old economist, who is backed by the country’s combative former president Rafael Correa, describes the deal with bondholders as unconstitutional....
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