Stories for 2011

Saturday, February 5th 2011 - 03:40 UTC
Paraguayan congress puts price to Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation

The Paraguayan political system is willing to consider the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur as a full member if there is a “significant gesture or compensation” from the government of President Hugo Chavez, according to congressional sources in Asunción.
Saturday, February 5th 2011 - 03:29 UTC
Piñera reaffirms Chile’s commitment to Antarctica, the continent of the future

President Sebastian Piñera described Antarctica as the continent of the future and confirmed Chile’s commitment to the values of peace and environment conservation represented by the southern pole mass.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 23:29 UTC
Armoured helicopter to combat organized crime in Rio do Janeiro

The Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro, host of the Olympic Games in 2016 presented on Friday its new weapon to combat organized crime and drug dealers that have control over urban shanty towns: an armoured US manufactured Bell Huey II helicopter which can transport 13 troops and two crew members.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 23:13 UTC
Paraguay recovers full status of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination

Paraguay recovered full status of “country free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination” following the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) decision to lift the “high vigilance zone” over 1.2 million cattle.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 22:28 UTC
Brazil preparing package to counter surging imports rapidly eroding trade surplus

Brazil’s trade surplus fell more than economists expected in January from a month earlier as exports declined at a faster pace than imports. The surplus narrowed to 424 million USD last month from 5.37 billion in December, said the Trade Ministry.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 22:22 UTC
Brazil’s industrial output fell in December for second month running

Brazil’s industrial output unexpectedly fell for a second straight month in December. Output in December fell 0.7% from November after a 0.2% decline in the previous month, the national statistics agency IBGE said this week.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 22:06 UTC
MV Polar Star passengers transfer to three cruises; expected Sunday in Ushuaia

Passengers from the MV Polar Star, which suffered a minor incident while cruising along the Antarctica peninsula, were expected to arrive in Ushuaia, Argentina, on Sunday, February 6, 2011.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:53 UTC
Argentina still haunted by the holdouts from the 2001 default

Argentina’s attempts to return to global credit markets nine years after its 2001/02 default received this week mixed results. New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa has issued a ruling urging Argentina to pay 54.33 million Euros (US$75.1 million) to the Capital Ventures International Fund.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:21 UTC
Rousseff and Obama to discuss ways to counteract China’s undervalued Yuan

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will discuss with her U.S. counterpart Barack Obama ways to counteract the threat posed by an undervalued Yuan and cheap imports from China, a Brazilian official said.
Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:17 UTC
US recovery still needs help for stronger job creation, says Bernanke

The US economic recovery still needs help from the Federal Reserve despite signs of improvement, the central bank's chairman Ben Bernanke said.