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...The government of then-president Juan Manuel Santos made minor amendments and controversially pushed the deal through parliament....
...Marta Lucía Ramírez, Mr Duque’s vice-president elect, said the country had regressed 25 years in terms of the protection offered to journalists and social leaders....
...The country’s first dictator, José Santos Zelaya, was driven from power with American help in 1909. Two decades of US military presence in the country followed....
...“He was with us in our most difficult moments, ever-present, sending us positive messages,” Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said last week....
...Ms Lucía Ramírez is expected to shift her support to Mr Zuluaga. Meanwhile, observers expect Clara López, candidate for the leftist Democratic Pole, could channel her 15 per cent to Mr Santos....
...Marta Lucía Ramírez of the Conservative party was in third place with 15.5 per cent. She was closely followed by Clara López of the leftwing Democratic Pole, who secured 15.3 per cent of the polls....
...Rafael Ramírez, oil minster, recently announced that the bulk of forex trading would be shifted to a mechanism – Sicad – that does not actually disclose at what rate it trades bolívars for dollars!...
...“We can say the state policies regarding the administration of those assets have been a failure,” Restrepo says, adding that he originally suggested to President Juan Manuel Santos the idea of liquidating...
...That is testament to the creative spirit of Andrés Jaramillo, the one-time hippy who founded the business three decades ago with his wife, Stella Ramírez, writes Henry Mance....
...YPFB, meanwhile, has been dogged by accusations of inefficiency and corruption, culminating in the imprisonment last year of Santos Ramirez, a former congressman and YPFB head, following a corruption scandal...
...“We want good partners but not patrons; [by] following this path, today we are subscribing to an important agreement,” Santos Ramírez Valverde, interim president of YPFB, said....
...At a rally in La Paz to celebrate Mr Morales’s anniversary in power, Santos Ramírez, a senator from the governing MAS party, called for mass protests to defend the administration’s programme....
...Marta Lucía Ramírez, a leading senatorial candidate for the Partido de la U who was President Uribe’s first minister of defence, says her party is not a personality cult....
...Santos Ramírez, a MAS deputy, told reporters on Tuesday night that the party would continue with its allies in radical social movements to use demonstrations to put pressure on Congress to raise royalties...
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