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...Rafael Alcadipani, a crime expert with the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, puts the situation even more starkly: “The PCC is the largest threat to the Brazilian state....
...In Cuiabá, the capital of Brazil’s inland soyabean-growing state of Mato Grosso, Rafael Yonekubo shows pictures on his telephone of his idol — tough-talking far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro....
...When campaigning in Iowa and the Bible Belt states, Mr Cruz frequently mentioned his father Rafael, a born-again Christian pastor....
...Church is for Sunday, and the hallelujah politics served up in Iowa by Ted Cruz (whose father, Pastor Rafael Cruz, is director of the Purifying Fire Ministries) and Marco Rubio — successively Catholic, Mormon...
...That prompted Ana Pastor, the Spanish transport minister, to call for a resolution of the dispute....
...IAG was always willing to tweak the restructuring plan and, at a board meeting last Thursday, Rafael Sánchez-Lozano, Iberia chief executive, briefed directors on efforts to reach an agreement with the unions...
...Ana Pastor, transport minister, has expressed sympathy for the unions, arguing that the future of Iberia is crucial for the economy....
...Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, has repeatedly threatened to expropriate the assets of foreign companies that did not agree to new contracts by midnight on Tuesday, although he has promised compensation...
...Mr Pastor-Morris said he was “not worried” by the rise....
...President Rafael Correa told state media at the weekend that two of the five foreign oil companies were holding out. “We’ve lost a pair of companies, what a shame,” he said....
...Wilson Pastor, oil minister, said that the contracts would increase state revenues from 70 per cent of oil exports to 80 per cent....
...“Every crisis involves a process of creative destruction,” says Rafael Doménech, head economist for Europe at BBVA, the Spanish bank....
...“There is a pervasive sense of negativity on Wall Street, in Washington and in the economy as a whole, and small businesses are reflecting that,” said Rafael Pastor, Vistage’s chief executive....
...“CEOs are expressing guarded optimism that their companies are in a position to withstand the stiffer headwinds from the credit storm,” said Rafael Pastor, head of Vistage....
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