Stories for September 8th 2011

Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:49 UTC
Mercosur/Asia soy-market forum project brings together leading experts

Experts from South America, US, Europe, India and China will be discussing next week in Rosario, Argentina the possibility of an Asia-Mercosur grains and oilseeds market in which soybeans will be playing the leading trade role.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:46 UTC
Thousands turned out to the streets of Brazil for anti-corruption demonstrations

Thousands of people have joined anti-corruption demonstrations in Brazil, as the country marked on Wednesday its Independence Day. Wearing face paint and clown noses, protesters joined crowds watching the traditional military parade in the capital, Brasilia. Similar protests were held in other cities across Brazil.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:43 UTC
Argentine prepared to let the Peso and central bank reserves slide

Argentina's international reserves have been declining for weeks as the central bank tries to stem the peso's slide against the US dollar, but policymakers have signaled that they intend to keep dipping into reserves to prevent an even swifter depreciation.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 02:51 UTC
Argentine president and business leaders exchange compliments

Argentina “is neither untouchable nor invulnerable” to the complicated global financial situation said on Wednesday President Cristina Fernandez who highlighted that had the crisis hit in a different time it would have obliterated Argentina.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 02:48 UTC
Soros predicts Euro crisis could be worse than Lehman Brothers

Billionaire George Soros believes that the current crisis of the Euro zone has the ‘potential to be a lot worse than the Lehman Brothers’ in the US due to the lack of consensus in the European Union to create an authority with enough power to handle this problem.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 01:22 UTC
Gibraltar and La Linea committed to share ‘a common socio-economic future’

Gibraltar and La Linea are meant to “share a common socio-economic future” Chief Minister Peter Caruana declared Tuesday in the neighbouring Spanish town hall after his first official meeting with the new Socialist (PSOE) mayor Gemma Araujo.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 01:16 UTC
Chile, Colombia, Peru equity markets integration on track is spite of crises

The difficult international situation has not affected the equity markets integration process of Colombia, Chile and Peru, said the president of Colombia’s Stock Exchange, Juan Pablo Córdoba.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:52 UTC
Brazilian forces try to regain control of shanty town again lost to criminal gangs

As Brazilians celebrate Wednesday September 7, Independence Day – a national holiday – Brazilian forces are engaged in trying to regain control of one of Brazil’s largest favelas.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:45 UTC
Argentina alleges Falklands is under ‘military occupation’ with more soldiers than civilians

Falklands-Malvinas is “under military occupation” and the military base “has more soldiers than the British civilian population occupying the Islands”, said Argentine ambassador before the United Nations Jorge Argüello during a conference at China’s International Studies Foundation.
Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:19 UTC
Uruguay willing to compensate alleged Haitian gang-raped victim

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has apologised to his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state.