MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 10th 2009
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Saturday, October 10th 2009 - 16:52 UTC
UN plane crashes in Haiti killing Uruguayan and Jordanian peacekeepers
Eleven United Nations peacekeepers, six of them Uruguayans were killed Friday when their surveillance plane crashed into a mountainside in Haiti during a routine patrol, United Nations officials said.
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Saturday, October 10th 2009 - 16:50 UTC
“Populist wave” is not a threat to stability in Latinamerica
The “populist wave” in Latinamerica represented by leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia are not an “excessive threat” to stability and territorial balance said Chilean writer Jorge Edwards.
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Saturday, October 10th 2009 - 16:44 UTC
Main opposition leader wants Venezuela in Mercosur to help control Chavez
One of Venezuela’s main opposition leaders has been invited to address Brazilian Senate committees which are currently considering the long debated controversial incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur.
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Saturday, October 10th 2009 - 16:33 UTC
Cristina “Malvinera” Kirchner promises no respite in struggle for Falklands
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claimed she is “profoundly malvinera” and promised to continue struggling at all international forums for what is unrenounceable for Argentina: “the claim over our Malvinas”.
