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Chilean president Gabriel Boric welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. IMAGES
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader receives King Felipe VI of Spain as the Caribbean country hosts the Ibero-American Summit, with the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine high on the agenda. IMAGES
Santo Domingo, Aug 16 (EFE).- Luis Abinader was on Sunday sworn in as president of the Dominican Republic with the challenges of facing the ongoing COVID-19 health and economic crisis, as well as corruption, a scourge that each year costs the country, on average, 1.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).The 53-year-old economist was sworn in before the new head of the Senate, Eduardo Estrella, after the outgoing president, Danilo Medina, broke with tradition and handed him the presidential sash in a separate ceremony in the National Congress, claiming that he did so as a preventive measure for the coronavirus. (Camera: MARIA MONTECELOS). SHOT LIST: LUIS ABINADER'S SWEARING IN CEREMONY AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, IN SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric marches in the capital Santiago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende. IMAGES
Chilean President Gabriel Boric signs a decree officiating a plan to find the missing victims of the country's dictatorship, at a ceremony held outside La Moneda Palace in the capital city of Santiago. IMAGES