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WORLD NEWSFriday 27 November 2015
Argentina’s president-elect announces new Cabinet CARIBBEAN
Argentina’s President-elect Mauricio Macri speaks to journalist at the entrance of the Olivos Civic Union party. Dominican officials
Rogelio Frigerio will be min- say at least 11 dead
presidential residence after meeting with President Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argen- ister of the interior, while in two bus collision
Union For All deputy Patri-
tina. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) cia Bullrich will be security SANTO DOMINGO, Domini-
minister. can Republic (AP) — Do-
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina pointments is Alfonso Prat the most successful policies Earlier, Macri announced minican authorities say at
(AP) — President-elect Gay as finance minister. of Cristina’s government.” that Susana Malcorra will least 11 people have died
Mauricio Macri named a He was Central Bank chief Baranao is the only mem- be Argentina’s foreign min- and over 70 have been in-
new Cabinet this week that between 2002 and 2004 ber of outgoing President ister. Former Shell executive jured when two buses col-
includes members from di- during the Peronist govern- Cristina Fernandez’s Cabi- Juan Jose Aranguren will lided between two eastern
verse Argentine political ments of Presidents Edu- net to be appointed to be minister of energy and resort towns. The Metro-
movements, business ex- ardo Duhalde and Nestor Macri’s. mines. politan Transportation Au-
ecutives and a minister with Kirchner. Lino Baranao, the The president-elect also The appointments came thority says the buses were
the outgoing government. current minister of science named ministers from par- after a meeting late Tues- carrying employees of the
Marcos Pena, chosen by and technology, will remain ties belonging to his Cam- day between Fernandez Paradisus Punta Cana Re-
Macri to be his Cabinet in his post. biemos front, including and Macri that left the sort and the Coco Bongo
chief when he takes office “He has been carrying out Oscar Aguad as commu- president-elect expressing nightclub. Authority spokes-
Dec. 10, announced the a very valuable program of nications minister, Ricardo disappointment. man Diegeo Pesqueira says
president-elect’s appoint- science and technology,” Buryaile in agriculture and Macri said Fernandez was the collision occurred at
ments at a news confer- Pena said. “For Mauricio Julio Martinez in defense. cordial but the talk “wasn’t dawn Thursday. He said the
ence. Among the key ap- (Macri) it has been one of They are from the Radical worth it.” He said they only number of fatalities could
went over protocol for the increase “because we still
Dec. 10 inauguration cer- have many injured in vari-
emony. ous hospitals and some are
Macri beat ruling party serious.” Authorities are still
candidate Daniel Scioli in a determining what caused
presidential runoff Sunday, the accident, but Pesquiei-
ending 12 years of domi- ra says a front tire blew out
nance by Fernandez and on one of the buses before
her late husband and pre- the collision.
decessor in office Nestor
Kirchner. Puerto Rico official
Macri has said he will tack- against new murder
le Argentina’s economic trial for judge’s son
woes, including plunging
foreign reserves, high gov- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
ernment spending and — Puerto Rico’s justice sec-
soaring inflation. He has retary says he will fight a
also vowed to lift unpopular ruling that gives the son of
restrictions on buying U.S. a U.S. district court judge a
dollars.q new trial after being found
guilty of killing his wife. Ce-
Venezuela opposition party says regional official slain sar Miranda says a local ap-
peals court erred upon stat-
FABIOLA SANCHEZ gunshots as the rally was Wednesday night, she de- problems in the oil-export- ing that Pablo Casellas de-
Associated Press nounced the “terror” that ing country. serves a new trial because
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) breaking up and the par- she charged was carried The opposition says sev- a 9-3 verdict issued last year
— An opposition leader out by the governing party eral activists have been was not unanimous. Mi-
was shot to death at a ty’s leader for the town, and said she had suffered wounded in recent days randa said in a statement
campaign rally Wednes- multiple attacks in Altagra- as government support- this week that a unanimous
day for next week’s con- Luis Manuel Diaz, was hit. cia de Orituco. ers crashed campaign verdict is only required in
gressional elections in Ven- The Dec. 6 elections are events. The socialist party federal courts. Casellas was
ezuela, his party said. Also present at the event being fiercely contested has denied that it is trying found guilty in January 2014
The shooting took place as the opposition coalition, to intimidate the oppo- on charges including mur-
in the central town of Al- was Lilian Tintori, wife of of which Democratic Ac- sition with violence and der, weapons offenses and
tagracia de Orituco, the tion is a part, mounts one called the allegations destroying evidence. His
leader of Democratic Ac- jailed opposition leader of its strongest challenges nothing more than the lat- wife, 46-year-old Carmen
tion party, Carolos Pros- yet to the government est craze among the gov- Paredes, was found shot
peri, said. He said he heard Leopoldo Lopez, said an- amid severe economic ernment’s foes.q multiple times at their home
in a wealthy suburb.q
other top party official,
Henry Ramos Allup.
Tintori is one of the best
known faces of the forc-
es opposing Venezuela’s
socialist government.
On her Twitter account
