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Santos arrived at Harvard in 1991 shortly after being kidnapped and held for eight months by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Santos, who had been working as a journalist for Colombia’s largest newspaper, El Tiempo, studied at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. During that same year, Uribe came to Cambridge to study business administration at the Extension School. The two met and became acquainted at dinners for Colombian students during the six months that their stays overlapped...
...Colombia, former El Tiempo editor Alfonso Martinez told TIME that the crisis in the U.S. would help some local politicians. "Colombians are surprised that there can be no result two days after an election in the U.S. because usually everything is very quick there," says Martinez. "The Palm Beach issue is raising considerable interest since it's being used locally to show that even in the U.S. there are irregularities in elections...
...Colombia, former El Tiempo editor Alfonso Martinez told TIME that the crisis in the U.S. would help some local politicians. "Colombians are surprised that there can be no result two days after an election in the U.S. because usually everything is very quick there," says Martinez. "The Palm Beach issue is raising considerable interest since it's being used locally to show that even in the U.S. there are irregularities in elections...
...credits the revolution with improving her life. As one of 12 brothers and sisters on a marginal farm in the 1950s, she almost never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the other nine months during the farmers' traditional tiempo muerto, or dead time. Her whole family turned out when rebel Camilo Cienfuegos passed through on his way to fight the dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...They make all these promises, but they don't deliver," says Armando C. Chapelli Jr. "With the Republican party, I know I ain't getting anything." Chapelli, a former Cuban refugee, is now CEO of a Washington consulting firms and publisher of El Tiempo Latino, the largest Spanish newspaper in the District of Columbia...