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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 16:16 UTC

Tag: Ramon Lobos

  • Thursday, January 5th 2017 - 08:04 UTC

    Maduro reshuffles economic team and names new combative vice-president

    Maduro named governor Tarek El Aissami as vice president, replacing Aristobulo Isturiz, who had served as an intermediary with the opposition-run legislative

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday shuffled his cabinet by naming a new economy czar to oversee the OPEC country's decaying populist system and a new oil minister to confront the economic difficulties caused by low oil prices. He also appointed a new vice-president, state governor Tarek El Aissami, a hard liner that could replace Maduro if he is forced to step down.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 11:10 UTC

    Chilean conservatives clear win in Punta Arenas, first time in almost thirty years

    Claudio Radonich managed a comfortable 47% of votes cast, ahead of the New Majority candidate Ramón Lobos, 20.3% and 17.4% for Emilio Boccazzi

    The Chilean conservative alliance “Chile, let's go” which achieved a sweeping victory in last Sunday's municipal elections, causing a serious disarray to the ruling coalition New Majority with only a year before the 2017 presidential election, also managed to win the Punta Arenas mayoralty for the first time since the end of the Pinochet era.