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...“They are both weak candidates, who have [congressional] minorities, and are not loved by the electorate,” Vargas Cullell said....
...Indeed, when Mexico dropped an investigation into former defence minister Salvador Cienfuegos, after persuading the US to return him following his arrest in Los Angeles on drug-trafficking charges, and then...
...Salvador Almonte has been doing a roaring trade in antiviral citrus cocktails at his stall in Iztapalapa, a sprawling working-class district of Mexico City....
...Most countries from El Salvador to Paraguay are today run by centrist, right-of-centre, or rightwing governments. Even the monolith that is Mexico has changed, now led by a maverick leftist....
...Chile’s late dictator General Augusto Pinochet came to power in Chile in 1973 after overthrowing socialist president Salvador Allende in a military coup, at a difficult time for the economy, when the country...
...Oliver Stuenkel, professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, said the scandal makes Mr Temer’s future unpredictable. “The damage can grow,” he said....
...And then we started working on other cases – [Juan] Peron in Argentina, Getulio Vargas in Brazil....
...Typical of his militant fiction are Cacao (1933), set on the cocoa plantations of Ilhéus, and his urban novels of Salvador....
...It was the first new emergency unit for two decades in the city of Salvador....
...“If you look at the history of it, in the past 10 years, it’s been three to four times that this has happened,” said Matias Spektor, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, an academic institution...
...These people will in the future become part of the fast-growing “new middle” class of Brazil as described by Marcelo Neri of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro....
...In spite of orders for his arrest issued by the de facto government, Mr Zelaya vowed on Wednesday to lead a mass of supporters overland into Honduras from either Nicaragua, Guatemala or El Salvador....
...remains the most conspicuous figure to emerge from the Latin American fiction “boom” of the 1960s and 1970s that also brought international fame to authors such as Mexico’s Carlos Fuentes, Peru’s Mario Vargas...
...Along the coast heading north from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia in north-eastern Brazil, beach-side barflies and bathers mix easily with fishermen resting or mending their tackle between trips...
...“Brazil spends a lot but it spends badly,” says Marcelo Neri, director of the social policy unit at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro....
...You need only look to 1990 when the right-wing candidate and world famous author Mario Vargas Llosa was widely expected to win the contest only a couple of months before it took place....
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