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Chilean community in Falklands march in support of the air link with Santiago

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:00 GMT

One hundred members of the Chilean population living in the Falkland Islands were joined by 50 to 60 Islanders in a show of unity against the possibility that the weekly Lan Chile flight between Santiago and the Falklands might be discontinued at the request of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

Mujica says Mercosur is “a chewing gum”; promises trade deals with third countries

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:17:00 GMT

Mercosur from a real point of view exits, but institutionally it’s a “chewing gum” claimed Uruguayan president Jose Mujica who anticipated he would demand from the block’s partners that Uruguay be allowed to sign bilateral trade agreements with third parties.

Trade restrictions, main point of agenda when Cristina Fernandez visits Chile

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:47:00 GMT

Santiago media reports increasing disappointment in the Chilean government and private sector with the latest batch of Argentine measures to restrict imports and want the issue ‘top of the agenda’ when President Cristina Fernandez visits Chile at the end of the month.

Hantavirus public alert in Chile after outbreak kills three people, infects ten others

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:30:00 GMT

Chile declared a public health alert this week over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others and which have been blame of the wildfires of a very hot summer.

Half a century embargo and nine US president later Fidel Castro is still around

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:13:00 GMT

The 50th anniversary of the US trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult.

“Unlikely” Peru would back Argentina in a new Malvinas conflict

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:06:00 GMT

Peru’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Jose Antonio Garcia-Belaunde, says it is unlikely that Peru would back Argentina if there were a new conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, newspaper El Comercio reported.

Deadly bacteria that resist antibiotics found in Antarctica seawater

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 GMT

Bacteria that can resist nearly all antibiotics have been found in Antarctic seawater, reports the New Scientist.

Lawmaker says Chile should keep distance from the Malvinas issue

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:21:00 GMT

Lawmaker Ivan Moreira from the ruling coalition junior partner UDI said that Chile should not get involved in the Falklands/Malvinas issue which has to be addressed between Argentina and the UK, and recalled that Chile has its own problem with the coming International Court of Justice dispute with neighbouring Peru.

Only the Falklands can determine its political future “not London, not Buenos Aires”

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:51:00 GMT

“We are well aware that Chile has a different position to us regarding the Falklands and this we understand, but it must be the Islanders who determine their political future, not London, not Buenos Aires or third countries”, said UK ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin in an interview with the Chilean media.

Malvinas dispute anticipates visits of Cristina Fernandez and Hague to Chile

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:03:00 GMT

British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Argentine president Cristina Fernandez are expected to visit Chile in the near future as pressure mounts on the conservative government of President Sebastian Piñera because of the ongoing UK/Argentina diplomatic dispute over the Faklands/Malvinas issue.