Stories for 2010

Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 02:20 UTC
Argentine hake landings confirm lack of fisheries management

Latest official data from Argentina’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Sub-secretariat indicates that 41.163 tons of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) were landed in Argentine ports between 1 January and 29 March. This is 33.5% less than in the same quarter of 2009 when 61.886 tons were unloaded.
Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 01:02 UTC
Buenos Aires City surrounded by two million Argentines living in shanty towns

Over two million people live in a thousand shanty towns in the surroundings of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires in conditions of extreme marginality and precariousness, according to official data released by the weekend press.
Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:57 UTC
Oil prices reach an 18-month high following on US encouraging data

Oil prices have reached an 18-month high as analysts predict the recovery of the US economy and a rising demand for fuel. Crude oil for May delivery hit a high of 85.89 USD a barrel at one point in New York trading - the dearest since the peak of the financial crisis in October 2008.
Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:52 UTC
Bolivia asked Putin for Moscow to return “strongly” to Latinamerica

Bolivian President Evo Morales revealed that he asked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to have Moscow return “strongly” to Latin America in the meeting that the pair held in Caracas last Friday.
Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:49 UTC
Bolivian Government and opposition celebrate Sunday’s provincial voting

Bolivian president Evo Morales claimed victory in the regional elections of this Sunday, because according to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), ‘now he controls six of the nine governors and three mayors of the ten largest in the country“.
Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:23 UTC
Fariñas reply to Raul Castro: determined to continue “fasting until death”

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas accepted as a challenge the warning launched on Sunday by president Raul Castro that Havana will not be “blackmailed or yield” to “hunger strikers” and promised that now “more than ever” he was determined “to continue fasting until death”.
Monday, April 5th 2010 - 12:12 UTC
Argentina: Positive assessment of trade mission to China

The head of the Argentine Fisheries Subsecretariat, Norberto Yauhar, assures that the assessment of his recent trip to China was very positive, and that “the objective of the trade mission was reached and, in many cases, surpassed expectations.”
Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 23:05 UTC
Uruguay’ government gross debt ballooned 31.5% in 2009, to 69% of GDP

Uruguay’s government overall debt skyrocketed 31.5% during 2009 according to the latest data released by the country’s Central Bank. This marks a complete reversal from the previous four years that could be described as very prudent.
Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 23:03 UTC
Putin consolidates Russian partnership with Venezuela

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived Friday in Venezuela for his first visit to the OPEC nation as he prepared to sign energy, defense, and financial agreements with President Hugo Chavez.
Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC
Mrs Kirchner blasts UN “double standards” on Falklands’ resolutions

“Don’t try to scare us with the ghost that we are going to take Malvinas militarily”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the main commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands.