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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....
...This week Lenín Moreno, Ecuador’s president, accused his predecessor, leftwing firebrand Rafael Correa, of taking Farc drug money. Mr Correa has repeatedly denied the allegation....
...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....
...The revellers were celebrating another electoral victory by the country’s leftist president, Rafael Correa....
...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)....
...he has been president for four years,” said Mr Gutierrez....
...Supporters of Mr Correa have accused Lucio Gutiérrez, the former Ecuadorean president, of orchestrating a coup. Mr Gutiérrez, who was in Brasília as the action unfolded, has denied this....
...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....
...Rafael Correa has been Ecuador’s president for fewer than 100 days, but he is already threatening to resign....
...With Mr Gutiérrez already alleging that the president harbours totalitarian ambitions, the fight could be a bitter and protracted one....
...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....
...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 constitution simply does not allow the president to do that,” said Mr Gutiérrez....
...Apart from Mr Noboa’s win, another big surprise of the election was the strong showing by Gilmar Gutiérrez, the inexperienced younger brother of Lucio Gutiérrez, the former president who was forced out of...
...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....
...When Lucio Gutiérrez, the country’s last elected president, stepped down in April 2005 in the face of violent protests in Quito, he became the third head of state in eight years to be forced from office...
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