Stories for June 3rd 2009

Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 10:56 UTC
Argentine meat packers move to ensure supply with feedlots

Quickfood one of Argentina’s main abattoirs is considering setting up two huge feedlots to fatten cattle, each with 22.000 steers, making it one of the leading companies in the industry
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 10:51 UTC
Brazil confirms Air France jet crashed into the Atlantic

Brazil's military has found wreckage from the Air France passenger jet that disappeared with 228 people on board, the country's defence minister says.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 10:14 UTC
OAS summit debates five proposals on the Cuban issue

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says no consensus has been reached on re-admitting Cuba to the Organization of American States, which suspended the country in 1962 in response to its alliance with the Soviet block in the midst of the Cold War.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 09:57 UTC
Consumer prices in Uruguay down to 0.41% in May and 6.63% in twelve months

Consumer prices in Uruguay during May increased 0.41%, and 6.63% in the last twelve months according to the latest release from the government’s Statistics Office.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 09:36 UTC
“Little-known stories” about 1914 are myths

Last week’s Penguin News carried an article by John Fowler, “War veteran publishes little known stories”, about the account by Colonel Tamaño entitled “Historias poco conocidas: Un ferrocarril en las Malvinas” [“Little-known stories: A railway in the Malvinas”], published recently on the Argentine army website soldadosdigital.com.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 08:42 UTC
GM Latinamerica confirms business as usual in Mercosur

General Motors has no plans to cut jobs or production in any of its businesses in the Mercosur region said on Tuesday GM’s general manager in Argentina. Edgar Lourencon went further and anticipated that plans to launch a new model for the region at the end of the year are advancing as programmed, and that the bankruptcy filing and restructuring of GM in the US does not influence business as usual in Mercosur countries.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 08:40 UTC
April unemployment in the EU soars to 21 million, says Eurostat

The number of people without jobs is rising across the European Union and has reached 21 million. The EU statistics office, Eurostat, said Tuesday the unemployment rate for the 16 Euro countries soared to 9.2% in April, the highest in a decade.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 08:36 UTC
Chile confirms first A/H1N1 flu death: 37 year man from Puerto Montt

Chile, with a total of over 300 confirmed infections, became the first country in South America to confirm a death of the new influenza virus A/H1N1, the Chilean government said Tuesday.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 08:33 UTC
House crisis contagion expands world wide: prices keep falling

House prices dropped further around the world during the year to end March 2009, as personal consumption expenditure decreased, consumer confidence remained low, credit remained tight and the unemployment rate worsened, property researchers the Global Property Guide said.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 08:31 UTC
Ford recovering US market share with sales up 20% from April

Ford, the only one of the “Big Three” US carmakers not to have gone bankrupt, has reported its share of the US market in May was its highest since 2006.