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Stories for November 18th 2013
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:25 UTC
Argentina's annual economic activity grew 4.7% in September, says Indec
Argentina's economic activity grew 4.7% in September compared with the same month last year, according to the government's much questioned stats office, INDEC. Market expectations were in the range of 3.9%.
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:15 UTC
Brazil has a new Miss Bum Bum: Dai Macedo and her 107 cm behind
The Miss Bum Bum 2013 winner is 25-year-old Dai Macedo of Brazil. Dai Macedo, who was the representative for the state of Goias in central Brazil, was one of fifteen finalists that participated in the competition in Sao Paolo last week.
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:06 UTC
Chilean leaders of the massive student protests elected to Congress
Vallejo's victory and those of independent candidates Giorgio Jackson and Gabriel Boric and fellow communist Karol Cariola, former comrade-in-arms in the student movement, who also gained seats in Chile's lower house on Sunday is significant for presidential front-runner Michelle Bachelet's bid to have her Nueva Mayoria coalition gain a stronger foothold in both houses of Congress.
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 18:33 UTC
Astori forecasts Uruguay's inflation in the range of 3 to 7% in the next two years
Vice-president Danilo Astori confirmed that Uruguay will continue with its current flexible foreign exchange policy, because “this has helped us reduce volatilities”, but also admitted concern about inflation, the third highest in South America and fourth in Latin-American and the Caribbean.
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 17:51 UTC
Two ladies in the runoff for Chile's presidency, but Pinochet's legacy is still around
Two ladies and daughters of Air Force generals (but from opposite sides) will be disputing the run off on 15 December when the next Chilean president will be elected. Given the fact that on last Sunday's first round Socialist Michelle Bachelet was only three points short of a majority, and over twenty points ahead of conservative Evelyn Matthei there should be no doubts about who will be inaugurated at La Moneda next March 2014.
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Monday, November 18th 2013 - 06:00 UTC
Chile election: Bachelet and Matthei go to second round
Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has won the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election.She took 47% of the votes, against 25% for her main rival, Evelyn Matthei, a former Labour minister in the centre-right government of Sebastian Pinera. A second round of voting will take place on 15 December.
