MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 13th 2022
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 08:49 UTC
PAHO sends help to Venezuelan town hit by mudslides
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Wednesday announced it was sending “medicines and medical supplies” to the Venezuelan town of Las Tejerías, in the State of Aragua state (central-north), where the number of fatalities has been updated to 43 following mudslides from heavy rains.
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 08:46 UTC
UN condemns Russia's actions in Ukraine
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday declared Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson was “illegal” and called on all member countries not to recognize the move.
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:47 UTC
President of the Mexican Hunting Federation dies in Argentina after being rammed by a buffalo
The president of the Mexican Hunting Federation, Mario Alberto Canales, died in Argentina when he was rammed by a buffalo he was trying to hunt in the province of Entre Ríos, in the northeast of the country, police sources reported Wednesday.
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:44 UTC
Lula promises favela dwellers they will eat 3 meals a day if he is elected
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) Wednesday promised potential supporters that if he is elected in the Oct. 30 runoff with the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, “people will eat 3 times a day.”
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:41 UTC
Mayor of Buenos Aires wants federal gov't to quit improvising
Following the President Alberto Fernández administration's creation of a so-called “Qatar dollar” for transactions abroad with credit cards, Buenos Aires Mayor and potential presidential candidate said nobody will “invest in Argentina with so many exchange rates.”
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:34 UTC
Parts of Uruguay on brink of agricultural emergency due to poor rains
Uruguay's Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries Minister Fernando Mattos has not ruled out declaring a national emergency due to the water deficit caused by poor rains, despite western and southern parts of the country being the most severely affected by the lack of rainfall during the winter.
