ATHENS: Alexis Tsipras and Yanis Varoufakis shared a vision once, but the double act of the Greek debt drama’s most colorful characters now appears well and truly over.

When Tsipras swept to power as prime minister in January, hiring maverick economist Varoufakis as his finance minister, both vowed to stand up to Athens’ much-loathed creditors and bring an end to the austerity they blamed for strangling the Greek economy.

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