An Argentine turboprop airplane crashed and burned shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people aboard,
Witnesses at the airport said that a few minutes after takeoff they heard a significant explosion followed by a huge fireball.
The passengers were members of the Argentine company La Rural which is an associate in a project to exploit a Convention Center under construction in the Atlantic resort of Punta del Este and had flown to Uruguay for a business conference with their Uruguayan partners and the local government.
La Rural is a leading company in Argentina and Latin America in the fairs, congress and events industry.
ARGENTINA
Exactly two months after his murder, Argentine Government Accuses Nisman of Embezzlement
Dead Argentine prosecutor was zeroing in on a terror threat to the entire Western Hemisphere
Investigan un supuesto refugio de jerarcas nazis en Argentina
BRAZIL
POLL NUMBERS!!! Dilma’s drop
COLOMBIA
Drug Gang Led by Female Trafficker from Mexico Nabbed in Colombia
CUBA
[pdf file] An Illusory Opening to Cuba:
Why Florida Shouldn’t Walk Through the Breach
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Where “Cold War Charm” is the half-century long misery endured by the inmates of the island-prison: Cuba’s Cold War charm has D.R. wary about losing U.S. tourists to next-door neighbor
Populist Playbook: The Slow Death of Democracy in Correa’s Ecuador
HAITI
Clinton Foundation’s chickens coming home to roost in Haiti?
HILLARY CLINTON’S BROTHER DEFENDS HAITI GOLD MINE DEAL: ‘I RAISE MONEY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE’
HONDURAS
Are Special Economic Zones the answer? How ZEDEs Can Make Honduras Prosperous
Next-Generation Zones for an Anti-Poverty Success Story
JAMAICA
US Say Courts Crippling Ja Narcotics Fight
NICARAGUA
Wang Jing: The man behind the Nicaragua canal project
PARAGUAY
Paraguay and Latin America are officially the happiest nations in the world, in a Bobby McFerrin sort of way?
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico’s Catholic Church Calls for Referendum on Gay Marriage
SOUTH AMERICA
The Islamization of South America
URUGUAY
After years in Guantanamo, ex-detainees find little solace in Uruguay Apparently they don’t have Uruguayan passports yet.
VENEZUELA
#MADURO ¡GOLPISTA! ¡GOLPISTA! ¡GOLPISTA! pic.twitter.com/KXhrTB9I17
— Swing Traders COL (@swingtraderscol) March 21, 2015
Enabling Maduro’s Tyranny in Venezuela
US Sanctions Give Perfect Excuse for Crackdown on Dissent. I disagree – the crackdown has been going on, well before any sanctions.
Maduro’s English in action,