Hints and tips:
...Sunday’s winner “is going to have to face a congress different from the current one, a more balanced congress, almost split in two halves”, Marco Moreno, director of the school of government from the University...
...Jhan Carlos Moreno, who spent 21 years in the insurgency, likens reintegration to “being dropped on the beaches of Normandy without weapons or leadership”....
...“We’re going to dig here,” says Delfina Herrera Ruíz. “It’s a body.”...
...In Ecuador, President Lenín Moreno’s popularity rating has crashed to single digits and in Chile, President Sebastián Piñera is polling in the low teens....
...The average sale price for a three-bedroom apartment in Santiago is $225,000....
...Santiago Abascal, the party’s leader, made by far the most triumphal appearance of election night, reminding his cheering supporters that only 11 months ago Vox had virtually no elected officials....
...The national leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, said his party’s support for a vote on Andalucia’s government, slated for mid-January, was not guaranteed....
...Not only does Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, want to take over the headquarters of the defunct regional body called Unasur located outside Quito that is (for now) named after Argentina’s former president...
...Refugees outside Santiago seek employment in the copper mines with keen competition and few protections and, like the middle-class students protesting under the previous administration, seek wider university...
...Alfredo Moreno, Mr Piñera’s foreign minister in his 2010-14 government, points out that there have long been disillusioned voters in Chile that have not opted for either main party, with the outsider candidate...
...That future worries Mercedes Cabrera, a peasant leader in the village of Santiago de Panantza....
...Moreno does not have a fresh discourse, does not offer anything new, while Lasso offers radical change,” says Santiago Basabe, a political scientist with Flacso university in Quito....
...“There is still a disconnect,” says Mark Joaquin Ruiz, a social entrepreneur working with the poor....
...Santiago Levy, vice president of knowledge and sectors at the IDB, told beyondbrics: “Industrial policies have fallen into disrepute because they often involved political favouritism, wasted resources, rent-seeking...
...Mr Moreno has even slapped fines on private economists for estimating inflation data well above official statistics. He is now being prosecuted for “abuse of authority”....
...Architect Matias Ruiz set up his architectural practice Ruiz Solar in 2005. Six years later he also started designing furniture....
...Ruiz de la Prada had contested the title of Marquess of Castelldosrius from her uncle, Santiago de Sentmenat y de Urruela, after he took it on when the previous holder died without direct descendants....
...“I’m voting for Piñera even though I’ve always voted left,” says Jorge Ruíz, visiting the Museum of Memory. “I think Piñera has a great opportunity to show the right has changed.”...
...military eliminated three of the Farc’s seven key leaders, pushed it further back from long-held territory and lured away more than 1,000 Farc deserters, including high-ranking guerrillas such as Nelly Avila Moreno...
...The latest brake was applied after pressure from Spain, which has been mediating in the apparently intractable dispute and asked Uruguay to wait until after the Santiago summit....
...Ghery, Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatrava and Norman Foster have all built wineries in Spain in recent years....
International Edition