Stories for November 24th 2011
Unasur Finance Council meets to agree on measures to counter the global crisis
Unasur Economy ministers and Central Bank presidents will meet Friday to agree on measures to help the region address the impact of the global crisis. The meeting takes place in Buenos Aires hosted by Argentine Economy minister and Vice-president elect Amado Boudou.
Mercosur calls on Doha Round for an end of all farm export incentives by 2013
Agriculture ministers from Mercosur full members plus Chile and Bolivia, as members of the Agriculture Council of the South, CAS, urged a quick conclusion of the World Trade Organization Doha Round negotiations to help combat poverty and ensure food security.
Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group manifests public support for Argentina
A Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.
Antarctica partial eclipse with the moon covering 80% of the sun at South Pole
On Friday, 25 November 2011, a solar eclipse will sweep across the southern part of the world, with the Moon covering about 80% of the Sun at the South Pole, reports the International Astronomical Union, IAU.
Chilean economy slows down as the mining sector contracts 6.5% in third quarter
Chile's economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in the third quarter from the second quarter of 2011, slowing from a downwardly revised 1.3% in the previous quarter.
The inequality behind Chile’s prosperity
By COHA guest scholar Silvia Viñas
Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways.
Brazil prepared to lower rates to prop the economy, said President Rousseff
Markets expect Brazilian policy makers will accelerate the pace of interest rate cuts after President Dilma Rousseff said at an event in Brasilia on Wednesday that the country can and is prepared “to use monetary policy” to combat the effects of Europe’s debt crisis.
HMS Montrose calls in Ascension en route to the Falkland Islands
HMS Montrose has visited Ascension Island as part of her mission to promote British interests in the South Atlantic over the coming months. Ascension supports the airbridge which provides the vital link between the UK and MPA in the Falkland Islands, seat of British forces in the South Atlantic.
Ninety years later epic polar explorers set to rest side by side in South Georgia
“He is my other self. I love him like a brother”. Thus Ernest Shackleton spoke of Frank Wild, his friend and fellow explorer, whose ashes are soon to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton’s at the Whaler’s Graveyard in Grytviken, South Georgia, 90 years after their last great polar venture.
