MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2012, MercoPress. http://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[Brazil will evaluate the impact and legality of Argentina’s latest trade barriers]]> Foreign Trade secretary Tatiana Prazeres made the announcement The Brazilian government expressed concerns over the new Argentine trade barriers going in effect on Wednesday and informed that it would “evaluate its impact and legality” before making any decisions, Foreign Trade secretary Tatiana Prazeres announced.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:47:00 GMT <![CDATA[Paraguayan beef exports forecasted to plummet 30% because of FMD outbreaks]]> New vaccination campaigns to ensure past mistakes are not repeated The value of Paraguayan beef exports could drop 30% in 2012 compared to the previous year given the loss of markets following two outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease, FMD, points out the country’ Centre for Analysis of the Paraguayan Economy, CADEP.

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:48:00 GMT <![CDATA[FMD in Paraguay: 168 livestock sacrificed and major investigation into previous outbreak]]> Cattle were buried in a hundred metres long, four metres deep trench Paraguay veterinary services concluded Monday midday the termination of 168 livestock mostly belonging to a farm where an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed 2 January in the county of San Pedro to the centre north of the country.

]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:54:00 GMT <![CDATA[Uruguay and Argentina among the ten countries worldwide with highest inflation]]> President Mujica has warned familias about growing indebtedness and ‘plastic credit’<br /> <br /> Inflation in Uruguay was not only far above target domestically but also figures among the ten highest in the world, and in Latam only behind Argentina and Venezuela

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:36:00 GMT <![CDATA[Spain opens tax evasion “hunting season” and targets 8 billion Euros]]> Vice-president Soraya Saenz de Santamaría, ‘this is the beginning’<br /> Spain’s new Conservative Government announced this week a wide ranging plan against fiscal fraud and tax evasion by which it hopes to recoup over 8 billion Euros for treasury coffers in 2012 alone. And it has also announced it will be engaging countries which have ceased to be tax-havens in order to step up the Government’s efforts against tax evasion in Spain.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:14:00 GMT <![CDATA[Paraguay declares sanitary emergency because of outbreak of FMD]]> Livestock movement and transport in Paraguay strictly regulated Paraguay declared on Wednesday animal sanitary emergency in the district of San Pedro, 400 kilometres north of the capital Asuncion where this week an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed in a farm.

]]> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:28:00 GMT <![CDATA[Brazil will continue to import beef from Paraguay except from the FMD area]]> “Paraguayan exports of beef to Chile, definitively suspended” said ARP president Juan Nestor Nuñez Brazil announced it will continue to receive different meats from the whole territory of landlocked Paraguay with the exception of the country of San Pedro were an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed this week, the second in four months

]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:33:00 GMT <![CDATA[Fears of another foot and mouth disease outbreak in Paraguay]]> Daniel Rojas head of Paraguay’s Animal Health and Food Quality Service Paraguay’ Livestock Sanitary Office has confirmed the isolation of a cattle farm in the north of the country where an apparent outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been reported. The farm is approximately 35 kilometres from the outbreak reported last September.

]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:39:00 GMT <![CDATA[“Falkland Islands don’t want to join Argentina”]]> A view of Stanley where almost two thirds of the Falklands population lives From Monday's Globe and Mail (*) The Falkland Islands, a windswept archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, are a British Overseas Territory, and have been since 1833. The 3,000 inhabitants of this Island are proud to be British subjects, and no amount of Argentine huffing or puffing will change that.

]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:25:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Guardian: “Britain is asleep over Argentina and the Falklands”]]> Sources of oil under the South Atlantic seas are now, of course, part of the equation In a piece published last week in London daily The Guardian, and referred to the recent Mercosur support for Argentina in the Falkland Islands dispute, Richard Gott argues that a new scenario has emerged with South America growing in strength, increasingly united and no longer looking to Europe for support and advice which means a different framework for the Falkland Islands s sovereignty dispute.

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