The party's chairman, Dean Barrow, is a partner in a law firm that has long represented Belize Bank.

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But in December, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that bondholders had agreed "in principle" to a restructuring deal.

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In September in Belize, Dean Barrow, a lawyer who is also the leader of the parliamentary opposition, stymied an American attempt to extradite a drug suspect.

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But Spanish is gaining ground: many posters for an election on March 7th are in Spanish and Dean Barrow, the (creole) prime minister, reads translations of some speeches.

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