MercoPress

MercoPress

MercoPress is an independent news agency started in 1993 which focuses on delivering news related to the Mercosur trade and political bloc, and member countries, covering an area of influence which includes South America, the South Atlantic and insular territories. MercoPress offers an update of the main events which model the Mercosur integration process, the current customs union, its influence on the main players of the region as well as the relations with other economic-political spaces.

AMERICAS

MercoPressNovember 9, 2015
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Cristina Fernandez cancels trip to G20 summit and joins Scioli’s presidential campaign

Argentina president Cristina Fernandez has suspended her attendance to the G20 summit in Turkey to campaign for the incumbent presidential…
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MercoPressOctober 29, 2015
5

Tuberculosis mortality nearly halved since 1990

The fight against tuberculosis is paying off, with this year’s death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990.…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressOctober 19, 2015
7

Scioli with best chances of becoming Argentina’s next president, if the runoff is with Macri

With less than a week to Argentina’s presidential election next Sunday, the latest reliable public opinion polls indicate a very…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 29, 2015
10

Cristina Fernandez points her guns to the US and ‘vulture funds’, but no word on the Falklands

Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Cristina Fernandez accused the United States of ‘protecting’ a former Argentine intelligence agent, blasted…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 23, 2015
19

Guyana claims Venezuela is making “abnormal military deployments” near the border

Guyana President David Granger is claiming that Venezuela is making “abnormal and extraordinary military deployments” near the border between the…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 18, 2015
6

Argentine officials furious with court annulment of gubernatorial election

The annulment by a Tucuman court of a gubernatorial election in a stronghold of Argentina’s ruling party, outraged officials of…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 14, 2015
7

Folha: “President Rousseff’s last chance to save her government”

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has one last chance to stem a growing political and economic crisis before being forced to…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 12, 2015
5

Police want to question Lula da Silva on Petrobras; request to the Supreme Court

Brazilian police have asked the Supreme Court for permission to question former president Lula da Silva, who they say may…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressSeptember 7, 2015
28

Argentina and Brazil scheduled to meet Maduro over the border situation with Colombia

In the margins of the Petrocaribe Summit currently taking place in Jamaica, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be meeting the…
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AMERICAS

MercoPressAugust 21, 2015
3

Merkel calls for a free trade accord between the European Union and Mercosur

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Brazil’s government on Thursday to further open its markets to foreign companies, and said she…
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