MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2023
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 12:19 UTC
Brazil dominates increasing share of China's soybean market
The world’s soybean market is dominated by one major buyer: China, and for years, Mercosur's leading member Brazil has taken an increasingly bigger share of that trade away from the US. So much so that Brazilian shippers are even starting to dominate during the typical season lull.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 12:10 UTC
UK launches ambitious North Sea oil and gas development licensing to ensure energy security
The United Kingdom is to grant hundreds of new licenses to seek and drill for gas and oil in the North Sea as it tries to bolster its energy security, the government said on Monday.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:40 UTC
Five killed in Chilean Air Force helicopter crash
All five occupants of a Chilean Air Force (FACH) helicopter that crashed Monday in the Los Lagos Region were reported dead, according to an official statement. A Bell-412 aircraft belonging to Aviation Group No. 5 suffered an accident at approximately 8.30 pm in the sector of La Cumbre, in the commune of San Juan de la Costa, according to local media.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:30 UTC
Bolivia announces end of Covid-19 emergency
Bolivia is shifting from a sanitary emergency to an epidemiological alert regarding Covid-19, it was reported Monday in La Paz. “Today Bolivia leaves behind the international sanitary emergency and enters a national epidemiological alert,” President Luis Arce Catacora announced on social networks.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC
Extradition of Mapuche leader to Chile granted, but appeals will ensue
A federal judge in Bariloche Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones-Huala to Chile under the recommendation that the days he spent in detention in Argentina be counted as time served.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:16 UTC
Brazilian traders want federal gov't involved in Paraná River Waterway toll dispute
The Brazilian Association for the Development of Inland Navigation (Abani) requested the Brazilian Foreign Ministry takes steps after the Argentine decision to seize a vessel of a Brazilian company in Greater Rosario due to debts in the payment of tolls for using the Paraná River waterway, it was reported.
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:08 UTC
Opposition candidate wins gubernatorial elections in Argentine province of Chubut
Ignacio Torres of the opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) alliance finally won Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Chubut with 35.71% of the votes, edging Arriba Chubut's Juan Pablo Luque, who collected 34.11% and would not admit defeat until Monday.
