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Opposition appears to have swept Trinidad elections
TONY FRASER
Associated Press
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad
(AP) — The main opposition
party in Trinidad and Toba-
go appears to have easily
defeated the ruling coali-
tion and ousted the coun-
try’s first female prime minis- by training, who has served
ter, according to unofficial
returns that were expected
to be ratified Tuesday.
Opposition leader Keith
Rowley of the People’s Na-
Cuomo, top NY officials visit Puerto Rico to tackle crisis
DANICA COTO
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
— New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo and a delegation
of top state officials met
with Puerto Rico’s gover-
nor on Tuesday to develop
what he called a historic
partnership with the U.S.
territory to help it emerge
from a deepening eco-
nomic crisis.
Cuomo pledged that New
York officials will share their
expertise in areas including
economic development
and health care and step
up political pressure as the
island seeks more equal
treatment from the U.S.
government to emerge
from a nine-year econom-
ic slump.“We believe that
the federal treatment of
Puerto Rico when it comes
to Medicaid, when it
comes to bankruptcy pro-
tection, when it comes to
tax treatment is unfair and
abusive,” Cuomo said.
“We’re going to do every-
thing we can to remedy
the situation because we
Gun test revives debate over Argentina prosecutor death
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) — Test results on the
gun that killed a prosecutor
investigating Argentina’s
worst terrorist attack are
reigniting the debate over
how he died.
Results released late Mon-
day show the gun that
killed Alberto Nisman would
have left traces of metals
from the gun’s cartridges
on the hand that pulled the
trigger. Two tests done on
Nisman’s hands a few days
after his death showed no

tional Movement was ex- cline in prices for oil and she told supporters at her economy weakened by
pected to become prime natural gas. Siparia constituency office. falling oil prices in the ener-
minister after his party cap- “The PNM is in good hands She had held power since gy-dependent nation.
tured 23 of the 41 seats in and we will manage the May 2010. The two rivals have a simi-
Parliament, according to affairs of the country in the Official results were expect- lar ideology and their sup-
media and party tabula- interest of all the people ed to be released Tues- port base is divided largely
tions. of Trinidad and Tobago,” day by the Elections and along ethnic lines, with
The 66-year-old geologist Rowley said. Prime Minis- Boundaries Commission. people of East Indian de-
ter Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Voting was peaceful in scent supporting Persad-
29 years as a senator in Par- whose coalition appeared Monday’s election in the Bissessar and her People’s
liament, said the energy- to have won 18 seats, con- twin-island nation. Both Partnership Coalition and
dependent country faces ceded defeat. “We are dis- sides had pledged to ad- those of African descent
“very rough waters ahead” appointed but respect the dress voter concerns about supporting the People’s
because of the steep de- wishes of the electorate,” crime, corruption and an National Movement.q

vincing the president to
do something yet? And
the answer is ‘no,’” the
governor said. “Otherwise
we wouldn’t be here to-
day ... More people know
about the financial crisis
in Greece than they know
about the economic pres-
sures on Puerto Rico.”
Cuomo and his delega-
tion of more than a dozen
officials, which included
New York’s attorney gen-
eral, its comptroller and its
secretary of state, spoke
Tuesday at a public round
table at the University of
Puerto Rico’s medical
sciences campus in the
capital of San Juan. Also
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, stands next to Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, attending were U.S. Rep.
during a joint news conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Cuomo and a
delegation of top state officials met with Puerto Rico’s Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, pictured left, Charles Rangel and City
on Tuesday to develop what he called a historic partnership with the U.S. territory to help it emerge
from a deepening economic crisis. Council Speaker Melissa
(AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) Mark-Viverito, among
others. The delegation
think it’s wrong, and that’s that a portion of that debt to Chapter 9 bankruptcy, pledged to send a team
why we’re here today.” is a result of the U.S. territory with Cuomo saying the is-
Puerto Rico is struggling receiving lower Medicare sue is on President Barack of experts from New York’s
with $72 billion in public and Medicaid reimburse- Obama’s radar but that
debt that the governor ments than U.S. states. more needs to be done. Department of Health to
has said is unpayable and The island’s government “The real question is: have
needs restructuring, adding also is pushing for access you succeeded in con- help restructure Puerto Ri-
co’s health system and an-
other team to help boost
the island’s agriculture sec-
tor. q

traces. His ex-wife, Judge on a Jewish center that Lead prosecutor Viviana used pig skin to cover up
Sandra Arroyo, says the killed 85 people. He was Fein says the latest test is in- the hand of a mannequin
new test on the gun proves found Jan. 18 in his apart- conclusive and doesn’t de- and then firing a shot using
someone else shot him. ment with a bullet in his termine if he killed himself the pistol that killed Nisman.
“Ballistic experts told me head. He had been sched- or was slain by someone The test results were first re-
that in 100 percent of the uled the following day to else. Fein also challenged leased to local press. Fein
cases that this .22-caliber elaborate to Congress on Nisman’s ex-wife to come said they cannot be fully
Bersa pistol was fired with his allegations that Presi- up with “direct and con- accurate because they
the same kind of ammo dent Cristina Fernandez crete” proof that the late cannot recreate the crime
(that pierced Nisman’s had orchestrated a secret prosecutor was killed. scene. “We can’t take one
skull) it would leave traces deal to cover up the al- Local media reported that piece of proof in an isolat-
on the person firing the leged role of Iranian offi- the tests were carried out at ed way,” she said. The pros-
shot,” Arroyo told local Ra- cials in the bombing. a laboratory in the northern ecutor has said the investi-
dio Mitre. Fernandez rejected the al- Argentine city of Salta. In- gation will continue and is
Nisman led the probe into legations and local judges vestigators reportedly tried expected to conclude in
the unsolved 1994 attack threw out the case. to recreate the shooting by October.q