MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 27th 2019
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Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:39 UTC
BRICS' ministerial summit can't agree on Venezuela, despite “people's cries for freedom”
Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo on Friday pleaded with the country's partners in the BRICS group of emerging economies to heed the “cries” of Venezuelans and work together to end the crisis.
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Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:33 UTC
Guatemala caves in and signs migration agreement with the US
The US and Guatemala have signed a migration agreement, days after US President Donald Trump threatened the Central American country with tariffs. Under the deal, migrants from Honduras and El Salvador who pass through Guatemala would be required to stop and seek asylum there first. Migrants who failed to do so would then be ineligible for asylum in the US.
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Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:18 UTC
Uruguayan lawmaker Jaime Trobo, a good friend of the Falklands dies at 62
Uruguayan lawmaker Jaime Trobo, a good friend of the Falklands' people and who visited the Islands in several occasions died this week at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer. Trobo was first elected a Montevideo Councillor for the National Party in 1984, when Uruguay emerged from eleven years of military dictatorship.
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Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
African swine fever spreading in Bulgaria
Bulgarian veterinary authorities said on Friday they will cull 30,000 pigs after detecting an outbreak of African swine fever at a breeding farm in northern Bulgaria, the third industrial farm hit by the fast-spreading deadly virus.
