Stories for 2010

Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 20:06 UTC
Uruguay received 910.597 tourists in the first four months of 2010

In the first four months of this year (high season in the southern hemisphere) Uruguay hosted 910.597 tourists who on average stayed nine days (spent over 800 USD per capita) totalling an estimated income of 744 million US dollars, according to Uruguay’s Deputy Secretary of Tourism and Sports Lilian Kechichian.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil’s tightest presidential election formally takes off this weekend

Brazil’s most influential parties will be holding this week their national conventions, which is the previous step to the formal launching of the October presidential election campaign considered one of the tightest races in recent electoral history.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:55 UTC
Busy May for South Georgia fisheries with good tooth-fish catches

May has been a busy month in the South Georgia Fishery, which opened on April 26th and catches have been good, according to the latest edition from the South Georgia newsletter.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:35 UTC
Long time close friend of Gibraltar named Commons’ Deputy Speaker

Britain’ House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has unveiled his three deputies as Labour’s Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle, Dawn Primarolo MP and, and Tory Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. The deputy speakers were elected by MPs in a secret ballot for the first time.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:33 UTC
Top IMF official warns Asia to prepare for European developments’ consequences

Risks to the global economic outlook have “risen significantly” and policy makers have limited room to provide support to growth warned International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara during a conference Wednesday in Singapore.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:24 UTC
“Conditions not right yet” for Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur admits Paraguay

The Paraguayan government will not send do Congress the protocol for the incorporation to Venezuela to Mercosur because conditions for its approval are non existent yet, said the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Lacognata.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:19 UTC
Female pilot breaks sound barrier in Chile

Flying at 20,000 feet above ground, Karina Miranda became the first Chilean woman pilot to break the sound barrier since it was first broken by a Chilean in the 1970s.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:16 UTC
Honduras return to OAS begins next week in Washington

The Organization of American States, OAS, is set to begin next week discussions on the integration of a special committee that will make proposals to end the international isolation of Honduras, which has been an OAS outcast since June 2009 when a coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:13 UTC
Federal Judge says Argentine government must guarantee “free circulation”

An Argentine federal Judge confirmed that the government should “guarantee the free circulation” of the bridge that links the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú with the Uruguayan city Fray Bentos.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:10 UTC
US dollar breaks through the 4 pesos barrier in Buenos Aires informal market

The new foreign currency controls that begun to be applied this week in Argentina had a marginal incidence in formal operations Tuesday, but in the parallel informal market the US dollar, under strong demand shot past the 4 Pesos milestone.