MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2024, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[FTA deal between EU and Mercosur needs to start from scratch, says Macron]]> “Let’s put aside an agreement from 20 years ago and build a new” one, Macron insisted French President Emmanuel Macron told a business forum in São Paulo that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the South American Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) needed to be "renegotiated from scratch,” Agencia Brasil reported.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:53:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Petro and AMLO describe Milei in not-quite-friendly words]]> I still do not understand how Argentines, being so intelligent, voted for someone who is not accurate,” AMLO wrote on X After derogatory remarks against them from Argentina's Javier Milei, Presidents Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico also had their say Thursday.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:43:00 GMT
<![CDATA[PAHO: Historic dengue outbreak to hit mainly Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay]]> Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina account for 92% of Latin America's dengue cases and 87% of deaths According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Latin America is looking ahead at the worst dengue season in history, mainly due to the global increase in temperatures and extreme weather. The worst scenario is likely to occur in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:04:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Car sales plummet in Argentina]]> The less expensive brand-new units sell for at least US$ 20,000, a price the market is not validating The business of selling cars in Argentina contracted 36.6% in the last 12 months as the South American country faces considerably high prices in US dollars coupled with rampant inflation and unemployment, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:53:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Brazil's newest sub christened before Lula and Macron]]> The Brazilian submarines are bigger than the original French Scorpene model from which they derive Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil Thursday visited the Itaguaí Naval Complex, the facilities in the State of Rio de Janeiro where the Tonelero (S-42) submarine -a joint undertaking between the two countries- was christened by First Lady Rosângela Lula da Silva.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:32:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Chile: Slight increase in unemployment reported]]> The increase in the labor force was greater than the increase in the number of employed people, Chile's INE found Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) released a report Thursday showing that unemployment in the mobile quarter from December 2023 to February 2024 reached 8.5%, an annual increase of 0.1%. In the Santiago Metropolitan Region (RM), it reached 9.3%, which represented a decrease of 0.4% in twelve months.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:57:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Colombia expels Argentina's diplomatic mission over Milei statements against Petro]]> Milei spoke ill of “the respected Mr Gustavo Petro,” Bogota's Foreign Ministry argued Gustavo Petro ordered all of Argentina's diplomatic staff in Colombia expelled after derogatory remarks against him by fellow President Javier Milei during an interview with CNN. The Libertarian leader called him a “murderer, terrorist,” given his past as a M-19 guerrilla fighter. Colombia also withdrew its Ambassador from Buenos Aires.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:59:00 GMT
<![CDATA["Democracy returned to Argentina thanks to Margaret Thatcher," Argentine historian said]]> Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "You really want to know why democracy returned to Argentina, (1983), it's hard to say, and you need guts to say it, but all of us Argentines must know it, and accept it, democracy returned to Argentina thanks to Margaret Thatcher, and the Malvinas adventure defeat..."

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:53:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Venezuela: Rosales claims he is not Maduro's candidate]]> Besides Rosales, most “opposition” candidates are believed to be collaborators of the ruling party Former Zulia governor Manuel Rosales, who once challenged the late Hugo Chávez Frías for Venezuela's presidency, said he was willing to withdraw from this year's July 28 elections if another opposition candidate made it through the restrictions imposed by Nicolás Maduro's regime. “I am not Maduro's candidate,” he insisted after becoming the most prominent contender on behalf of a fragmented opposition.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:40:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Uruguayan rural producers affected by stronger local currency]]> “Supply and demand determine what the dollar is worth,” Central Bank President Labat has said Uruguay's rural producers underlined that the constant appreciation of the local peso against the US dollar was detrimental to their exporting activities and insisted that the appropriate exchange rate should be US$ 1 = UY$ 58 instead of UY$ 37.5, which represents a 3.9% drop so far this year.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:31:00 GMT