Stories for 2009

Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 09:56 UTC
Galapagos Islands adds a new sponsor: movie star Richard Gere

United States movie star Richard Gere has offered to campaign to save the Galapagos Islands from development and tourism. During a weekend visit to the Islands, Gere, 59, met Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his species, who was greeted by Prince Charles last week.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 09:54 UTC
Charles and climate change: people realize I wasn’t “talking nonsense”

Prince Charles who has been visiting the Amazon and the Galapagos islands said in a interview published on Sunday people now realised he had not been “talking nonsense” during his many years of campaigning for action on environmental issues.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:48 UTC
Petrobras guarantees fuel supply ahead of five day strike

Brazil’s government managed oil and gas corporation Petrobras said there is “no chance” a planned strike by its workers beginning Monday will limit the country’s fuel supply.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:31 UTC
Cristina/PM Brown’s meeting to discuss Falklands’ impacts UK press

The coming Friday meeting in Chile of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner with Prime Minister Gordon Brown allegedly to address the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute has had headlines’ impact in Britain.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:25 UTC
US to announce Monday plan for purchase of banks’ toxic assets

A key adviser within US President Barack Obama's administration says she is “incredibly confident” the US economy will recover within 12 months. Christina Romer, head of the White House's economic advice council, told Fox TV “we will be seeing signs the economy is turning around”.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:08 UTC
April in Argentina: Cristina overseas and Nestor running home affairs

A busy three weeks in foreign relations affairs begins next weekend for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who will also have a chance to address the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim issue in a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 07:53 UTC
Banking system losses in the US keep mounting: 32 billion in fourth quarter

United States banks lost 32.1 billion US dollars in the last quarter of 2008 - even worse than the 26.2 billion originally reported, US federal regulators say.
Sunday, March 22nd 2009 - 17:40 UTC
Venezuela: Chavez trims budget, adds debt to counter crisis

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday almost tripled his government's borrowing plan and trimmed his budget to offset a slide in oil revenues, but resisted pressure to devalue the local bolivar currency.
Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 13:19 UTC
Sixty Argentine military officers accused of war crimes in Falklands conflict

The demand presented by Malvinas war veterans who claim to have been tormented, abused and even tortured by their Argentine military superiors during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict, already involves 60 former officers and statements from over one hundred witnesses.
Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 12:57 UTC
Uruguay completes first South American dairy cattle export to China

Uruguay completed this week the first South American export of live dairy cattle to China. A total of 3.970 Holstein calves and heifers (8 to 18 months old) were shipped for the thirty day journey which will be followed by two month quarantine in mainland China.