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...Paintings such as Juan Carreño de Miranda’s frothy, rococo “The Immaculate Conception” were sent to Mexico and widely copied, spreading Catholic messages and teaching European styles....
...In 2006, former president Vicente Fox had to be smuggled out of the village after the angry crowd erupted into boos during his visit....
...Henrique Capriles, the opposition leader and governor of Miranda state who narrowly lost the presidential election to Mr Maduro in 2013, claims guns were also fired at one of his meetings....
...As for the Juárez cartel, the operational baton had already passed to two sons of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, with Vicente a mere figurehead, she says....
...Vicente Carillo Fuentes, alias “The Viceroy”, who had led the Juárez cartel since the death of his brother Armado, the “Lord of the Skies” while undergoing plastic surgery in 1997, was seized in Torreón...
...“Maduro inherited a terrible situation, a Bermuda triangle of problems,” said Luis Vicente León, a pollster and economist, pointing to a ruinous trio of price controls, dollar shortages and a crippled productive...
...“The breaking point in Venezuela is very moveable because the country always has oil revenues,” says Luis Vicente León, a pollster and economist at Datanálisis in Caracas....
...“That would be an atomic bomb for the opposition,” said Luis Vicente León, a respected Caracas-based pollster. “Miranda represents a brutally important symbol for chavismo....
...One was the capture on Friday of Vicente Zambada, a suspected trafficker and son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, considered a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel....
...Foreign-owned companies invariably say that first the administration of Vicente Fox, and now that of centre-right President Felipe Calderón, went out of their way to align the necessary incentives to attract...
...But the depth of some challenges has increased because the administration of his predecessors Vicente Fox and Ernesto Zedillo succeeded in doing little more than managing a political transition and stabilising...
...Vicente Fox, Mexico’s president, has made a rapid U-turn on a bill that envisaged decriminalising the possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin, cocaine and LSD....
...Vicente Fox, Mexico’s president, told the FT this week that “building walls is not becoming of a democracy such as the US”. In fact, the US is already stepping up border protection....
...“They knew they were going to be defeated,’’ said José Vicente Rangel, vice-president. “Fine, they can go to hell then.’’...
...President Vicente Fox's government took the local police off the streets after a war between drugs gangs in Nuevo Laredo spiralled, damaging relations with the US and raising fears for the local economy....
...Rene Juarez, the outgoing governor, took a confidence-boosting public swim for the tourists. Observer fears for more than just his political future....
...The PRI held the presidency without interruption from 1929-2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action party was elected....
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