Links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Tribune Magazine, and teleSUR are presented; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. NOTE: The second AP report, from Buenos Aires, was filed a week ago. — MCM
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Mexico’s president revived dangerous form of coal mining, by Fabiola Sánchez and Mark Stevenson | AP MEXICO CITY — As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration’s populist policies have driven the revival of the dangerous, primitive mines that continue claiming lives. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enacted a plan two years ago to revive coal-fired power plants in northern Mexico and give preference to buying coal from the smallest mines. The purchases were part . . . READ MORE . . .
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Chile warns area around sinkhole at high risk of further collapse, by Fabian Cambero | Reuters SANTIAGO — Chilean authorities are warning that the area around a copper mine where a sinkhole suddenly appeared is at high risk of further collapse and has set up a security perimeter. Government agencies and the mine’s owners are studying what caused the appearance in late July of the mysterious hole that spans 36.5 meters (120 feet) in diameter. The area is at high risk of further cracks or sinking near the Alcaparrosa mine, about 665 km (413 miles) north of Santiago, the Committee for Disaster Risk Management of Chile’s northern Atacama region determined Saturday . . . READ MORE . . .
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The stakes in Brazil’s election couldn’t be higher, by Francisco Dominguez | Tribune Magazine / Educate! Ahead of October’s election, with leftist Lula leading the polls, fears are rising of a Bolsonaro coup. The entirety of Brazil’s democracy is at stake. After four years of the government of right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians will vote for a new president on 2 October 2022. Former president Lula — currently high in the polls — is confronting an increasingly . . . READ MORE . . .
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Argentina’s VP Cristina Fernandez expresses gratitude for solidarity. From teleSUR. The vice-president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, expressed her gratitude Saturday night for the multitudinous expressions of solidarity she has received as a result of the judicial persecution against her. . . . Demonstrations in favor of her . . . began at the beginning of last week after prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola requested a 12-year prison sentence against her and disqualification from holding public office for the case known as Vialidad. READ MORE . . .
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Argentine prosecutors request 12-year sentence for VP. From AP BUENOS AIRES — Prosecutors on Aug. 22 asked a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally. “We are faced with the biggest corruption maneuver that this country has ever known,” prosecutor Diego Luciani said in his closing arguments in the trial of Fernández, who was president of Argentina from 2007 and 2015, before becoming vice president in 2019. The alleged fraud against the state cost the country’s coffers around $1 billion, Luciani said. The former president has vehemently denied charges against her in the three-year trial . . . READ MORE . . .
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