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...Her mentor, former president Rafael Correa, has been campaigning on her behalf from exile in Belgium, where he is living to avoid a corruption conviction at home....
...“We’re living through what Colombians lived through in the 80s with Pablo Escobar,” said Angel Merchano, a security guard in Quito. “The police and the army need to be better armed....
...“Ecuador is not prepared for this violence, and the security forces and the general population don’t know how to react,” said María Teresa Escobar, who runs the political website Primicias....
...This north-to-south approach is supposed to be most convenient due to wind patterns and ground elevation; but that didn’t spare us from heavy rain, scorching sun and, approaching Cerro Castillo, the most...
...There’s his nemesis, Castillo Armas, nicknamed “Hatchet Face” — he’s a “bony, consumptive-looking colonel with a Hitler moustache and sheared skull”....
...“Yesterday I freed up two beds in intensive care because two of my patients died,” said Marcelo Castillo, a doctor at a small private clinic on the outskirts of Guayaquil....
...Palacios, As Sortes 2016 Valdeorras (Godello), about £40, various UK retailers Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi, El Reventón 2015 Vino de la Tierra Castilla y León (Garnacha) Casa Castillo, El Molar 2016 Jumilla...
...“The bottom line is that over the long run better relations with the US is good for ordinary Cubans,” said Mr Escobar....
...“Too many people are used to administrating the system in the old way,” says Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a reform-orientated cultural magazine....
...These were the years of high-society kidnappings, when drug lords such as Pablo Escobar were engaged in an all-out assault on the state....
...“The supreme court is day by day producing investigations, processes and sentences on some very prominent people,” he said, citing last week’s arrest of Mario Uribe Escobar, the president’s cousin and ally...
...Castillo, a gynaecologist in Caracas....
...Rafael Bielsa, Argentina's foreign minister, warned of a “regression” in bilateral relations....
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