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Negotiation with vulture funds fails: Argentina forced to default
Meanwhile, expectations soar over another meeting where holdouts were analysing an offer made by Argentine private bankers seeking to buy defaulted bonds from hedge funds suing the…
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Mercosur: declaration in order to create special economic zone
The proposal aims to facilitate trade and industrialization among member countries.
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Honduran president: U.S. ‘has enormous responsibility’ for immigration crisis
The historic influx of illegal immigrants from Central America is caused primarily by the high demand for illicit drugs in the United States, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez…
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Putin: ‘Cooperation with Latin America is key to Russia’s foreign policy’
Moscow's cooperation with Latin American states is a priority for Russia’s foreign policy, President Vladimir Putin told Cuba's Prensa Latina and Russia's Itar-Tass news agencies in an…
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Argentina and the flight of the financial vultures
The story of the vulture funds that have brought Argentina to the brink of a second default in one decade should not be told as the work of a heartless speculator, an ultraconservative…
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Violence, poverty driving children to flee Central America
As reported by the Pew Research Center, and based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security document, poverty and regional violence in three Central American countries are the main…
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Cuba sides with Argentina in ‘vulture funds’ case
Cuba is siding with Argentina in the case of that South American nation's foreign debt and how it can best pay it off. "By defending Argentina, we defend the right of the nations in the…
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Mujica said to be mediating between Obama, Castro
At the summit of the Group of 77+China, held June 14-15 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, President José Mujica took a key step toward an improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations and the…
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Group of 77 decries ‘ZunZuneo’ and similar infiltration techniques
The use of cyberspace and the social communication networks to infiltrate and destabilize societies and governments was denounced Sunday (June 15) by the Group of 77+China at its summit…
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Castro calls for a new financial order, blasts U.S.
Cuban President Raúl Castro took to task the world's largest financial institutions for not doing enough to help the developing countries and urged the creation of regional banks that…
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