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...The massive wavelike building from starchitect Carlos Ott pairs paintings by Uruguayan masters (Joaquín Torres-García, María Freire) with the likes of Frank Stella, Wifredo Lam and Louise Nevelson....
...However, Juan Carlos Restrepo, a former national security adviser and intelligence chief, said such a move would be a mistake....
...They are also an example of the anti-establishment style that swept the charismatic Amlo, as he is known, to power in a historic election last July....
...Andrés Arizkorreta García, the chief executive of the rail equipment maker CAF, also said he was searching for deals, mainly out of the planned merger of two of its big sector rivals Alstom and Siemens....
...trusts, known locally as FHipo....
...to offer a prayer for protection to the figure of a god of the mines known as El Tío....
...Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales – along with his deputy Alvaro García Linera, a suave Marxist mathematician – seems to be sailing towards his third presidential victory in Sunday’s election, thanks to a...
...All Colombia’s qualifying matches were played with a specially designed ball known as the “Macondo”, in homage to the fictional town where García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) was...
...Envisioned as a partnership between Brazil and Venezuela, the project has become the focus of a police investigation into money laundering, known as Lava Jato, or “Jumbo Wash”, in which Mr Youssef and Mr...
...With the cash generated by Cigatam, as his cigarette-maker was also known, he began buying many enterprises that faced rough times (mainly as a result of the country’s successive devaluations) but which...
...And Carlos Ardila, with $5bn, owns RCN television and radio, the country’s other private national network, which has a television joint venture with News Corp in the US, as well as being the originator of...
...Carlos Raúl Yepes, president, Bancolombia Since Carlos Raúl Yepes took control of Bancolombia in February 2011, Colombia’s largest commercial bank has expanded aggressively, writes Henry Mance....
...Indeed, while once considered by many to be a communist and a supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he was also known for his criticism of the left....
...… Sankuay Recommended for: Local favourite Address: Enrique León García 114, Santa Catalina, La Victoria, Lima, 13, Peru; Phone: +51 14706217; Open: 6 days for lunch and dinner....
...Two names commonly associated with the international emergence of Latin America’s best-known authors are Carmen Balcells, the formidable literary agent known as “la Mama Grande” to her clients, and publisher...
...Even so, Mr García might care to note a recent rise in the number of demonstrations in Lima, and a growing feeling of discontent – a poll by Datum International also showed García’s disapproval rating rising...
...Enrique Sánchez, a child psychologist at the Gabriel García Márquez junior school in Cazucá, a slum in the south of Bogotá, looks worried as a group of children disappear into the barrio’s labyrinth of alleyways...
...Mr García also has a long-standing personal resentment: in 1992 Mr Chávez, then an army officer, launch-ed a failed coup against Carlos Andrés Pérez, the populist Venezuelan president and ally of Mr García...
...He also drew support from many middle-class professionals. Alvaro García Linera, vice-president-elect, is a sociologist and former TV pundit....
...Enrique Garcia, the president of the Andean Development Corporation, has yet to secure the backing of his home country, Bolivia....
...His special adviser on foreign affairs, Marco Aurelio García, arrived in Caracas at the weekend. Mr Lula da Silva met Colombian president Alvaro Uribe last week....
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