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Argentine Legionnaires’ outbreak claims 6th life
AFP
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in northern Argentina has claimed a sixth life, provincial health officials said.
The latest victim, who died late Sunday, was an 81-year-old patient with comorbidities who had been “in a serious condition” receiving treatment for pneumonia, the health ministry in Tucuman province said in a statement.
The outbreak in the same San Miguel de Tucuman clinic, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) north of Buenos Aires, was first detected on August 18.
Eleven people have been affected so far, including eight staff at the private clinic.
The Malbran Institute in Buenos Aires, where authorities had sent samples for testing, identified the previously mystery illness as Legionnaires’ after ruling out Covid-19, flu and hantavirus.
The disease, which first appeared at a 1976 convention of the American Legion veterans group in the United States, has been linked to contaminated water and unclean aeration systems. Symptoms include high fever, aches and trouble breathing.
The clinic is temporarily closed and a “clinical and epidemiological investigation” is underway to determine the source of the outbreak, provincial health minister Luis Medina Ruiz told local media.
No new cases have been detected since August 25.
International
Colombian president Petro requests extradition of smuggling kingpin from Portugal
Colombian President Gustavo Petro formally requested Portugal on Friday to extradite Diego Marín, known as ‘Papa Smurf’ or ‘Pitufo’, who is considered Colombia’s biggest smuggling kingpin.
Marín was arrested last December in northern Portugal after fleeing from Spain.
“I hope Portugal extradites the largest smuggler in Colombia’s contemporary history. Large-scale smuggling is nothing more than money laundering for major drug traffickers,” Petro stated on his X account.
According to Petro, “Diego Marín deeply infiltrated government institutions to sustain his destruction of national industry and facilitate money laundering through smuggling.”
International
Cuban president Díaz-Canel condemns U.S. actions as a threat to global peace
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated on Friday that the aggressive actions of the United States pose a threat to international peace and criticized its recent decisions to use the Guantánamo Naval Base (in eastern Cuba) to detain 30,000 undocumented migrants and to relist the island as a state sponsor of terrorism.
“We will not remain silent in the face of such infamy, nor will we lose hope in humanity’s progress,” said the Cuban leader during the closing session of the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World, held in Havanaand dedicated to Cuba’s national hero, José Martí (1853-1895).
Díaz-Canel pointed out that “the dominant political forces embrace fascist ideologies that humanity has sought to eradicate since the last century. These trends are a product of capitalism.”
Two days ago, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 30,000 undocumented migrants to the Guantánamo base, Díaz-Canel condemned the decision as an “act of brutality” and emphasized that the military facility is “located on illegally occupied Cuban territory.”
International
Trump: “I won’t allow the stupidity of buying venezuelan oil again”
U.S. President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he would not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela, as his predecessor Joe Biden did when he lifted a series of sanctions.
“Biden went and bought millions of barrels of oil. I’m not going to allow something that stupid to happen again,” Trump said in remarks to the media in the Oval Office.
The president was asked about the visit of his special envoy, Richard Grenell, to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.
“He (Grenell) is meeting with a lot of different people,” Trump responded.
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