MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 16th 2023
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 11:23 UTC
Malvinas Council rejects Libertarian candidate's statement on Falklanders' rights
Argentina's Malvinas Council issued a statement condemning the stance of presidential candidate Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party regarding the “self-determination” of the Falkland Islanders and insisted that “the pretended reference of the islanders as a third party to the dispute is a central component of the British diplomatic strategy.”
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:51 UTC
Milei's interview with Tucker Carlson reaches record audiences
With over 300 million screenings in 24 hours, Argentine Libertarian Congressman and presidential candidate Javier Milei's interview with controversial US journalist Tucker Carlson has become the most-viewed video on X, Elon Musk's social platform formerly known as Twitter, it was reported Friday.
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:40 UTC
Chilean President denounces deadly threats
Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Friday said he had received deadly threats from an ultra-rightwing group that threw pamphlets outside his parents' home in the city of Punta Arenas, some 3,000 kilometers south of Santiago.
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:04 UTC
Dominican Republic closes all borders with Haiti for as long as necessary
Dominican Republic authorities closed all land, air, and sea borders with Haiti over a dispute stemming from the construction of a canal in Haitian territory that affects the flow of water from a river shared by both countries.
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:54 UTC
Fernández thanks G77+China for supporting Argentina's claim over Falkland/Malvinas
Argentine President Alberto Fernández warned Friday in Cuba that there is still “a dominant world and a dominated world” while calling all countries attending the G77+China Summit in Havana to “put an end to it forever.”
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:30 UTC
Argentina: Foreigner removed from urgent heart transplant recipients list
The Federal Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires ordered a foreigner waiting for a heart transplant removed from the recipient's list administered by the National Central Institute for the Coordination of Ablation and Implantation (Incucai) on the grounds that the petitioner is not a permanent resident in the country as required by law.
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Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 04:58 UTC
Milei team insists, if elected president “Falkland Islanders will be respected”
“I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes president,” emphasized Diana Mondino, most probably foreign minister of Javier Milei, if he is finally elected as the next Argentine occupant of the Pink House in Buenos Aires in the October/November election.
