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...The target was Jorge Glas, who served as vice-president to the leftist authoritarian Rafael Correa, who governed Ecuador from 2007-17....
...Rafael Curruchiche, head of the Special Prosecutor Against Impunity (FECI) unit, is on the US Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors list for obstructing investigations and raising other spurious cases....
...Lenín Boltaire Moreno, anointed successor of Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, has claimed victory in Sunday’s polarising presidential runoff, guaranteeing the continuity of the country’s decade-long leftist...
...Rafael Correa....
...“It was hailed as a good deal at the time,” recalls Patricio Diez de Bonilla, Compartamos’ treasurer. “But for those of us involved, we were left with the feeling that we didn’t get what we wanted.”...
...Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s newly re-elected leftwing populist president, promised to sustain his radical agenda in his pursuit of 21st century socialist revolution amid the euphoria of his victory....
...Mr Ortiz, one of the most orthodox members of Rafael Correa’s leftist administration, will be replaced by Wilma Salgado, deputy of the Socialist party in the Andean parliament, who has pledged to prioritise...
...“The irony is that this happened from the corporate side; we were watching the banks very closely,” says Guillermo Ortiz, Mexico’s central bank governor....
...Ecuador’s leftwing president Rafael Correa on Wednesday replaced an economy minister censured by the local congress for alleged manipulation of bond markets....
...Richard Lapper Ecuadorian pragmatism It sometimes seems that Rafael Correa wants to outbid President Chávez in the ideological purity stakes....
...President Rafael Correa touched on the prospect of default in April 2005, when he became Ecuador’s finance minister and said his priority was “paying the workforce before paying for capital”....
...Kiwzo Fumero’s high note flourishes on trumpet and reedsman Rafael Palau’s cool tenor saxophone stood out....
...As Ecuadoreans go to the polls on Sunday, the frontrunner in the race to be president is Rafael Correa, a radical nationalist allied to Hugo Chávez, the anti-American president of Venezuela....
...Still, given that Fleet was the hometown bank of Red Sox Nation, B of A surely wouldn't mind if David Ortiz led the home-run derby. observer@ft.com...
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