Stories for June 2012

Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:05 UTC
Protesting Chilean students again take to the streets; minor clashes with Carabineros

Dozens of Chilean high school students were detained in Santiago on Wednesday as a protest organized by the National Confederation of Secondary Students (CONES) turned ugly.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:00 UTC
Welsh nationalist party rebuffs Argentine approach on Falklands’ dispute

Diplomats from the Argentine embassy in London invited senior representatives from Plaid Cymru, for talks in the past six months, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:51 UTC
Argentine government authorizes the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat

Argentina's government authorized this week the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat as farmers advance with early plantings, officials said.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:46 UTC
Drought hit Argentina soy beans and corn crops really hard

Argentina's biggest grains exchange trimmed its forecast for 2011/12 soy output this week to 40.5 million tons, down from May's estimate of 40.9 million tons as harvesting enters the home stretch.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:44 UTC
Argentines inflation expectations remain above 30% for the fourth month running

Argentines' expectations for future inflation held steady in June, marking the fourth consecutive month in which people have expected annual inflation to total 30%.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:40 UTC
Colombia determined to ensure a floor oil production of 1 million bpd

Colombia which has become South America’s third- largest crude supplier, is speeding environmental permits for oil companies as delays threaten to derail an output target of 1 million barrels a day this year, the nation’s regulator said.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:34 UTC
Brazil’s central bank forecasts strong rebound in last quarter and early 2013

Brazil’s economy will be expanding in the beginning of next year at the fastest pace since the last quarter of 2010, said central bank President Alexandre Tombini.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:24 UTC
Father of former president Bachelet was tortured to death by Pinochet dictatorship

The father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 military coup, a judge said in Santiago on Wednesday.
Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:07 UTC
UK largest corporations will have to report greenhouse-gas emissions in profit reports

UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that starting next April, all companies that list on the London Stock Exchange will be required to publish their greenhouse gas emissions in corporate earnings reports.
Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 21:09 UTC
Argentina’s Diplomatic Circus

by Jimmy Burns (*) Cristina Fernandez Kirchner told her countrymen back in February that they should not feel collectively responsible for the national debacle that surrounded the military invasion of the Falklands in 1982. She blamed the military and the Argentine media. Those of us who lived through that war in Argentina know this to be a falsehood.