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...Moreno’s successor Guillermo Lasso, a self-made banking tycoon, was equally unable to halt the growing stranglehold of gangs when he took office in 2021....
...As for crime, countries such as Ecuador and El Salvador cut homicide rates by professionalising police forces and prioritising crime prevention....
...Jhan Carlos Moreno, who spent 21 years in the insurgency, likens reintegration to “being dropped on the beaches of Normandy without weapons or leadership”....
...“I’m humbled by the support,” he told the FT, adding that he had been co-nominated by Guyana, Haiti, El Salvador, Paraguay and Israel, as well as the US....
...These were understood to include regional giant Brazil, close US ally Colombia as well as El Salvador and Venezuela, represented by the opposition administration of Juan Guaidó....
...There are resources now, so it is expected there will be full coverage of water services in the next few years,” Ms Moreno adds....
...Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the IDB, says these kinds of public private partnerships are important to the region’s development....
...“The risk for the region is very real,” said Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the IDB....
...But if Mr Moreno does in the end get his way, it is seems safe to predict that the minister´s stay in government will be short-lived....
...This year the US backed two candidates from El Salvador and Mexico for the position of secretary-general of the Organisation of American States, both of whom failed....
...In some areas of Mexico and El Salvador these towns are becoming ghost towns - ghost towns with decent roads, pavements and some fine US-style houses all paid for by remittances - but ghost towns nonetheless...
...Earlier this year José Miguel Insulza, the Chilean interior minister, was elected secretary-general of the Organisation of American States even though the US initially supported candidates from El Salvador...
...Success on Cafta came hours after Luis Alberto Moreno, a pro-US Colombian, was easily elected to be the president of the Inter-American Development Bank....
...Legislation has been approved by Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras and should go through without a hitch in the Dominican Republic....
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