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A small American automaker has just secured the title of world's fastest production car. SSC North America announced Monday that their Tuatara hypercar reached an average speed of 316.11 mph. According to CNN, the record-breaking feat came during two dashes outside Las Vegas. The vehicle was tested on a seven-mile stretch of a Nevada highway on Saturday. The car also reached the highest speed ever achieved on a public road, at 331.15 mph. SSC confirmed that two independent witnesses were on-site to verify the world records.
Necocli, Sep 26 (EFE).- Numerous migrants, most of them Haitians, wait for space on the boats that cross to the other side of the Gulf of Uraba, the end of Colombia, where some 17,000 people wait to continue their way to North America. Only 500 people can board a day on the boats that leave them in Acandi to begin their journey through the Darien Gap, which separates Colombia from Panama. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ). SHOT LIST: MIGRANTS, MOST OF THEM HAITIANS, PLAY SOCCER CAMP IN NECOCLI, COLOMBIA.
New York City, Sep 24 (EFE).- The former president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, said here Friday that the failure of Latin American governments to speak with one voice about the dangerous developments in Nicaragua displays an absence of unity in the region."We are only six weeks away from the consolidation of a North Korea-style dictatorship in the heart of the Americas, in Nicaragua," she said during the Global Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean in New York.The forum is organized by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, whose founder and director is former Dominican President Leonel Fernandez. (Camera: PACO MILLÁN).B-ROLL OF THE GLOBAL FORUM ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN IN NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, US. SOUND BITES: FORMER PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA, LAURA CHINCHILLA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: We are only six weeks away from the consolidation of a North Korea-style dictatorship in the heart of the Americas, in Nicaragua. And it will happen when the region is celebrating 20 years of its democratic charter. It will happen in a broad daylight, after three resolutions of the United Nations and more or less 8 resolutions of the OAS Permanent Council and General Assembly. It will happen after 12 years of clear democratic decay in that country.
Skopje, Sep 8 (EFE/EPA).- North Macedonia on Wednesday celebrated 30th anniversary of its Independence with parade of the army and police forces. (Camera: GIORGI LICOVSKI).B-ROLL OF THE ARMY PARADE TO MARK 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF NORTH MACEDONIA'S INDEPENDENCE, IN THE CITY OF SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA.
Tegucigalpa, Apr 29 (EFE) (CAMERA: Uriel Gudiel).- About 30 million people are poor in Central America, of which 80% are concentrated in the Northern Triangle, a region that requires international assistance to face the pandemic and the effects of climate change that threaten to deprive thousands of their food security.keywords: efe, featured, honduras, economy, crisis, poverty, central america