Mercosur-US military exercise suspended

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The USSA is demanding total immunity for 'muriKan troops.

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Argentine Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa announced this Wednesday the suspension in Argentina of a joint military exercise between Mercosur and United States troops scheduled for the end of October.

The suspension is motivated by the fact that the Argentine Congress has still to approve an immunity privilege for United States troops.

“Aguila III exercises will be deferred and a new date will be arranged”, said Mr. Bielsa in an interview with the Buenos Aires press. “Uruguay is an alternative theatre” for the exercise involving military from United States, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina added the Argentine official.

However in Montevideo Deputy Defence Secretary Elías Bluth pointed out that the “exercise will not be deployed in Uruguay”. Uruguayan military sources said that “we don’t have the necessary preparations for such an operation”.

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1. Guess the Argentines didn't get the word:

We're special.