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Argentina makes deposit to pay debt creditors

The Ministry of Economy of Argentina announced that today was made a deposit of 161 million dollars in the local authority Nation Trusts, of the National Bank, in Buenos Aires, in order to pay the debt the country maintains with the creditors of the restructured debt. “From...
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Protests remain in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, dozens of protesters, mainly students, took to the streets to call for a full democracy and demand the resignation of the leader of the city, Leung Chun-ying. Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters yesterday defied tear gas and the blows of police batons. They stood...
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Progressive Encounter pointed out USA as the leader of a ‘conservative restoration’

Yesterday began the Progressive Latin American Meeting ELAP 2014, with a lecture by President Rafael Correa, who spoke about the need to consolidate the progressive union to deal with “conservative restoration” that has been set with the “greatest political...
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Unidad Popular submits its application to become a political movement today

The Unidad Popular group (former Movimiento Popular Democráctico) will submit today the request to become a political movement. Leaders indicated they would attend to the National Electoral Council in Quito to apply and initiate the registration process of the group. The head of...
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Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl will act together in a film about the Chilean dictatorship

“Colonia,”the new film starring British actress Emma Watson and German actor Daniel Brühl, is based on a true story from the lived dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990, after the coup d’état given by General Augusto Pinochet against socialist President...
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Amendments to the Social Security and IESS Bank law expect the executive veto

The draft amendments to the Social Security and IESS Bank law since Monday is in the hands of President Rafael Correa, who will totally or partially veto the law within 30 days, to then deliver the project to the Assembly. The document was approved last week and points out that...
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Hong Kong Protesters defy repression in Beijing

Since last Friday, tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, mostly students, protest and challenge the government for a full democracy, as a result of the electoral reform in which China supports the direct election of a governor from 2017. Student leaders...
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