Word: alejandro
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...first outsider to be able to take advantage of the new system [and] to challenge the entrenched powerbrokers successfully,” Frankel said. But, Frankel continued, while Fox had difficulty getting his policies passed by the Mexican Congress, Calderón has had more success. Mexican national Alejandro Rocha, a student at Harvard Business School, said that Fox was evasive during the question and answer session. “It’s great to see someone who changed the 72-year ruling party, [but] I think he didn’t really answer any questions...
...debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a resident of Key Biscayne with alleged links to President Hugo Chavez and a taste for red Ferraris. "He acted perfectly natural until I ordered him to open the bag. Then he did become uncomfortable and at first he didn't react, so I had to insist...
...seen by TIME sets up a 45-day process with all mail-in ballots due by June 3, primary day. While the proposal does not go into who exactly will pay for the procedure, it sets aside a one-month period for "fundraising." Florida State Democratic Party Press Secretary Alejandro Mayar said the plan includes all aspects of the mail-in scenario. Says Mayar, "It's a very detailed plan." The proposal had already been circulated among top state Democratic players for their input. "We're being 'shopped,' would be more accurate," said Florida Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller. Under...
Eliot HoCo Co-Chairs Louis K. Kang ’09 and Alejandro Gac-Artigas ’09 said that Eliot HoCo was not affiliated with the thefts. But Gac-Artigas added that “a criminal in Eliot can be said to be better than a law-abiding student in Adams...
...Home to some 40 million mostly poor people, Central America is an enormous market for inexpensive clothing. Nicaraguan entrepreneurs often travel to Miami to buy used clothing in bulk, and ship it back home to sell for a hefty profit. According to an investigation by Nicaraguan economist Alejandro Arauz, most such apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold...