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Parallel economy: How Russia is defying the West’s boycott

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内容摘要:Albanese, who leads the center-left Labor Party, visited the eastern states of Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania on Friday. Dutton, who leads an alliance of conservatives parties called the Liberal-National Coalition, campaigned in the states of South Australia and Western Australia.

Albanese, who leads the center-left Labor Party, visited the eastern states of Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania on Friday. Dutton, who leads an alliance of conservatives parties called the Liberal-National Coalition, campaigned in the states of South Australia and Western Australia.

Mujica’s greatest innovations came on social issues. During his term, Uruguay became the first country in South America to legalize abortion for the first trimester and the first in the world to legalize the production, distribution and sale of marijuana. His government also legalized same-sex marriage, burnishing Uruguay’s progressive image in the predominantly Catholic region.Mujica’s government also powered a green energy revolution that transformed Uruguay into one of the world’s most environmentally friendly nations. Today the country generates 98% of its electricity from biomass, solar and wind energy.

Parallel economy: How Russia is defying the West’s boycott

His tenure was also not without controversy. The opposition complained of rising crime and athat forced his successor to raise taxes.Some world leaders disapproved of his disdain for the established order. Conservative Uruguayans voiced outrage over his progressive policies.

Parallel economy: How Russia is defying the West’s boycott

Still, Mujica ended his tenure with a 60% approval rating. Ineligible to seek re-election because of a ban on consecutive terms, he continued to wield influence at home as an elected senator and abroad as a trailblazer and sage.Even so, his humility defined him until the end.

Parallel economy: How Russia is defying the West’s boycott

“They ask you: ‘How do you want to be remembered?’ Vanity of vanities!” he exclaimed to the AP. “Memory is a historical thing. ... Years go by. Not even the dust remains.”

DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press writers Leonardo Haberkorn in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Nayara Batschke in Santiago, Chile, contributed to this report.LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.

He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee said it was awarding him in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro on X.

Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

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