MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 12th 2024
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 23:32 UTC
Cruise season kicks off in Uruguay
Uruguay's cruise season kicked off Tuesday with the arrival of one of the Germany-based Aida company's vessels carrying some 2,100 passengers and 600 crewmembers.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:53 UTC
Milei says Argentina “entering its best moment in the last 100 years”
Argentine President Javier Milei insisted Monday that his country was “entering its best moment in the last 100 years,” despite what the rank and file may perceive amid soaring prices and dwindling wages. “I say to all private sector players: take advantage of getting on the progress train now because it is cheaper to buy,” added the head of state during a visit to the headquarters of the virtual wallet platform Ualá.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:09 UTC
German Consul in Asunción killed in multiple-car crash
Germany's Consul General in Asunción (Paraguay) Kristin Blumenröther was killed Sunday in a multiple-car crash on the Luque-San Bernardino road known as Ecovía in which her husband and one of the children also perished. The couple's other child survived the accident and is hospitalized. The Paraguayan administration of President Santiago Peña extended its condolences to Blumenröther and the German Government.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:02 UTC
Bullrich meets with Gopinath in Washington
Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Monday met in Washington DC with International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath to discuss thee South American official's anti-picketing policy. “Without security there is no economic prosperity,” they both concurred.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:38 UTC
Food insecurity feared in Bolivia after weeks-long road blockades
Bolivia's Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (Anapo) President Fernando Romero said Monday that diesel fuel shortages seriously threatened food supply in the short run as well as production in the future. Romero told the Chinese news service Xinhua that hundreds of companies in eastern Bolivia were on the brink of bankruptcy and pointed out that only 20% of rice growers had started planting.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:32 UTC
US airliner shot at when trying to land in Haiti's main airport
Violence-torn Haiti keeps making headlines worldwide as a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale was shot at when trying to land at noon local time by gangs surrounding Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the new interim Prime Minister was sworn in.
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Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:18 UTC
Kristallnacht remembered in Uruguay by the entire political spectrum
Representatives of Uruguay's Government as well as the opposition got together Monday to commemorate the infamous Night of Broken Glass perpetrated by Nazi Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938, which was rekindled by last week's pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam.
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