Stories for January 2012

Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:27 UTC
Brazil runs the risk of becoming highly dependent on natural-resources exports

A leading Brazilian economist Edmar Bacha, one of the architects behind the 1994 Plan Real to stabilize Latin America’s largest economy said the country was at risk of becoming entirely dependent on natural resources exports and urged greater savings to invest in diversification.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:24 UTC
Chilean Patagonia in the 2012 top ten travel destinations of the New York Times

Chile has been included in the New York Times’ list of top travel destinations in 2012, with Chilean Patagonia in 8th place, and Chiloé in 37th place out of a total of 45.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:22 UTC
Argentina says no change in Mercosur decision to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels

Argentina in two brief statements said on Tuesday that there has been no change in Mercosur members’ position to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels from the region’s ports and that the United Kingdom admits that such policy has become effective.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 21:57 UTC
Malvinas recovery for Argentina must become a “Chilean cause”, says former minister

Chilean former Foreign Affairs minister and ambassador before the UN, Juan Gabriel Valdes has called for Chileans to adopt the Argentine sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands --disputed with the UK--, as a “Chilean cause”.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 21:09 UTC
Falklands’ “black gold rush” means a decade of big money, with or without oil

Thirty years after the Falkland Islands conflict, the South Atlantic Islands are the focus of a “black gold rush” as a string of exploration companies seek to be the first to find commercially viable reserves in the region, writes the London Express City & Business.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 15:42 UTC
UK tells Mercosur it will resist any attempts to coerce the Falklands

The British government said it would resist any attempts to coerce the Falkland Islands through economic or other pressures, and revealed it is holding ‘productive discussions’ with Uruguay, Chile and Brazil to ensure trade and commercial links between the Islands and South America are not compromised by political declarations.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 06:02 UTC
Rockhopper ends Faklands’ 2010/11 exploration round with three oil discoveries

Rockhopper Exploration announced Monday that it has completed its successful round of drillings in Falkland Islands waters with the Ocean Guardian rig.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 06:00 UTC
Campden Hill Square, UK’s most desirable road with average house price £ 4.9m

Campden Hill Square in Holland Park, West London, has become Britain's most desirable road with an average house price of £4.9m. The square near Kensington Palace has topped a survey of house prices across the country by Lloyds TSB.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 05:59 UTC
Chile preparing forest restoration plan for ravaged areas of Torres del Paine Park

As emergency workers finish extinguishing the last traces of fire in Torres del Paine National Park, now the Chilean government is beginning to look at the next critical phase in handling the disaster in Chile’s world-famous adventure destination.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 05:57 UTC
Chilean per capita meat consumption has doubled in the last two decades

In the last two decades Chileans consumption of different meats has doubled according to data from the Agriculture Policy and Studies Office, ODEPA, released this week. From the 39.6 kilos of 1991, meats consumption soared in 2011 to 84.2 kilos on average, and not taking into account fish and sea food.