Hints and tips:
...Brothers Jaime, Rafael and Moisés Micha and their friend Carlos Couturier – the men behind the Grupo Habita hotel collection, Mexico’s recognised anointers of The Next Big Thing – have long had their eyes...
...“It’s a result that we accept,” he told reporters in La Paz on Monday....
...I have been with him since dawn, when he started his day in the administrative capital, La Paz....
...“Go to any market in La Paz and you will see Bolivian socialism at work,” said the Catholic University’s Mr Chávez....
...Back in Honduras, Jairo Murillo, who grows coffee between the country’s capital Tegucigalpa and La Paz, needs to earn a living for his family....
...“We believe that Opec has to co-ordinate action to arrest the fall in oil prices,” said Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela’s foreign minister and the former head of state oil company PDVSA....
...actually ambivalent about granting Mr Snowden asylum after Univision, the Spanish language network, revealed the Ecuadorean embassy in London had given Mr Snowden safe travel papers against the wishes of Rafael...
...Critics say that in Ecuador, President Rafael Correa, a US-trained economist, has partly relied on the $13bn public pension system, the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social, to help finance the country...
...Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is considering closing the US embassy in La Paz, in the latest ripple resulting from the Edward Snowden affair....
...The self-described socialist agenda of Bolivia’s first indigenous president goes along with his regional allies, the ailing Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and the recently re-elected Rafael Correa in Ecuador....
...La Paz said it regretted Red Eléctrica’s decision because it had not allowed time for talks before turning to the World Bank....
...Her comments came as Mr Morales landed in La Paz almost two days after setting off from his original departure point, Moscow....
...This was badly privatized back in the nineties, and badly managed over the past decade,” an effusive Francisco Montaño, secretary general of Bolivia’s national miner’s union told beyondbrics in La Paz....
...In May, Mr Assange interviewed Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, for Russia Today, a Kremlin-backed television channel....
...But like his remaining political fellow travellers, such as Ecuador’s leftist president Rafael Correa, Mr Morales’ self-proclaimed mission to fight capitalism and save Mother Earth is struggling under the...
...Key roads into the capital of La Paz and between regional centres such as Santa Cruz and Cochabamba have been blocked, a favoured tactic of Bolivia’s powerful unions....
...For Carlos Toranzo, a La Paz-based political economist with the Latin American Institute for Social Research (ILDIS), the move leaves the state with pretty much “nothing left to take over.”...
...“This surprise move was taken in the face of assurances given to the British and French ambassadors in La Paz at the end of last week that the Morales administration continued to want to maintain European...
...Rafael Ramirez, the Venezuelan oil minister, has said that only the book value of investments rather than the market value will be recognised....
...However, in recent weeks all the indications were that the new leftwing government in La Paz would move cautiously....
...After two days of protests in La Paz, Mr Morales agreed to freeze taxes paid by mining co-operatives....
...Ecuador: dangerous games Rafael Correa has been in office in Ecuador for just three weeks but on domestic politics and debt he is already playing dangerous games....
...La Paz trumpeted its new agreements with foreign investors at the weekend, pushing up taxes and downgrading companies to mere service providers....
...Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela’s energy minister, said over the weekend that PDVSA, the Venezuelan state energy company, would help to develop the Bolivian gas reserves....
...La Paz suspended the policy last month, citing lack of funds and expertise....
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