Stories for May 2013

Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:05 UTC
Falklands MPA has the minimum force necessary to prevent a repeat of 1982 invasion

The UK military base in the Falkland Islands has the “minimum necessary force to prevent a repeat of the illegal invasion such as that of 1982” committed by Argentina said Foreign Office Minister of State for Latinamerican affairs Hugo Swire during an interview with the Argentine news agency, Diarios y Noticias. (*)
Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:01 UTC
Argentina absorbs 93% of beef production, exports tumble behind Paraguay

Argentine government trade restrictions on overseas sales of beef have turned Paraguay into Mercosur third largest exporter behind Brazil and Uruguay. The first place last year belonged to Brazil with exports of 1.3 million tons; Uruguay, 350.000 tons; Paraguay, 210.00 and finally Argentina.183.000 tons.
Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 00:35 UTC
Falkland Islands’ tourism industry keeps growing despite a drop in cruise visitors

The Falkland Islands International Tourism Statistics Report released to the public this week records that 2012 was the second highest year on record in terms of overnight visitors travelling for leisure. There were 7,791 overnight tourists (as opposed to day trip cruise tourists) arrivals in the Falkland Islands in 2012, of which 1,937 could be classed as leisure visitors. Overall, tourist arrivals have grown at an average annual rate of 7% per annum over the period 2000-2012.
Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 00:29 UTC
Gibraltar ‘will never be Spanish’ and will enjoy full self-government says Chief Minister Picardo

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has told German readers of Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung that he is firmly convinced that Gibraltar will never be Spanish because today’s Europe is about the people rather than the states.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 22:22 UTC
Brazil opens ports to private investment hoping to ease bottlenecks strangling exports growth

Brazil’s Congress approved legislation that opens up state-owned ports to private investment and lifts restrictions on the building of private ports in a bid to eliminate serious bottlenecks strangling the country’s export growth. The Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries praised the approval of the bill and anticipate investment of 25bn dollars.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:56 UTC
Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy

Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply the Antarctic bases and stations.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:47 UTC
Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements

Brazil’s main financial newspaper Valor Economico revealed that the recent summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff from Argentina and Brazil was far from polite and enlightening, rather the contrary with “strong disagreements in the fields of trade and investment” shaking the foundations of Mercosur.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:41 UTC
Iran enforces memorandum with Argentina to look into AMIA terrorist bombing

The business representative of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires Alí Pakdaman announced on Monday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endorsed without Congress approval the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Argentina and Tehran in order to investigate the AMIA Jewish centre bombing which killed 85 people in 1994.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:12 UTC
Falkland Islands: Argentina blasts UK’s ‘double standard’ on self determination right

Argentina questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of non autonomous territories that should be decolonised” Additionally Argentina renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty and described the UK attitude, ‘colonial hypocrisy’.
Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:09 UTC
Pope Francis and Merkel talk economics: ‘rules of the social market have not been observed”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless “dictatorship of the economy” and the “cult of money”, called for stronger regulation of financial markets.