MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 8th 2011
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:54 UTC
Brazilian military warn incoming Defence minister forces are ‘non political, non partisan’
A Brazilian retired general and former commander of UN forces in Haiti warned the new Defence minister Celso Amorim to avoid giving the Armed Forces command a ‘left-wing ideological imprint’.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:48 UTC
Chilean Patagonia districts in ‘agriculture emergency’ because of snow storms
Four districts in the Chilean extreme south region of Magallanes were declared in “agricultural emergency” given the harmful effects of snow storms in the area.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:37 UTC
Brazilean President Rousseff looses another top official to corruption
The Brazilian congressional opposition promised to block legislative work in both Houses until the government accepts the creation of a Special Investigation Commission, CPI, to look into alleged corruption practices in several ministries from the administration of President Dilma Rousseff.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:33 UTC
Brazil remains faithful to the dollar and has no plans to sell US Treasuries
Brazil has no plans to sell US Treasuries or change its foreign currency reserves holdings as a result of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the US’s credit rating, a government official said.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:14 UTC
China warns US on ‘debt addiction’; demands global supervision of dollar issues
Beijing bluntly criticized the United States after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the “good old days” of borrowing were over. S&P cut the US long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on yesterday, over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:03 UTC
Sarkozy thanks CFK for the investigation of the murder of two French tourists
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, on Sunday in order to “personally thank her for the outstanding job” carried out by local authorities in the investigation of the murder of two French tourists in Salta.
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Monday, August 8th 2011 - 03:48 UTC
For Argentina Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty legitimacy conditions any other negotiation
Argentina is not going to make things easy for Britain in the Falkland Islands and the first discussion, before any other issues are addressed, must be the legitimacy of the Malvinas Islands sovereignty, said Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli in a Sunday interview by Carolina Barrios published in the Buenos Aires Herald.
