MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 21st 2012
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Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 04:27 UTC
Brazil’s federal staff several months strike extends to the highways police
The Brazilian highways patrol police in several states joined the national strike of federal workers that are protesting for higher salaries and better working conditions. The strike of the National Federation of Highway Police (Fenapre) was decided unanimously over the weekend effective Monday.
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Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 02:56 UTC
Argentina hosted 5.7m tourists in 2011; iconic names play a significant role
Argentina has become the most visited country in South America with arrivals in 2011 reaching almost six million tourists, said Leonardo Boto head of the country’s National Tourism Promotion Institute, Improtur.
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Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 02:25 UTC
US Court rejects Argentina sovereign immunity argument; banks must show documents
Argentina lost a bid on Monday to prevent bondholders from obtaining documents from two banks about the country's assets outside the United States. A three judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said in an opinion that the Argentine government could not prevent a lower court's order forcing the banks to produce the documents.
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Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 02:02 UTC
US accuses Assange of “wild assertions” and Ecuador of “sideshow” at OAS
The Obama administration on Monday accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making “wild assertions” about US persecution to deflect attention from sex allegations he faces questioning for in Sweden.
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Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 01:57 UTC
Re-re-election of Cristina Fernandez fully integrated to the political agenda of Argentina
Several groups allied to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez are actively promoting a constitutional review that would allow re-election for a third consecutive four year mandate. The last Argentine constitutional review was in 1994 when the four-year mandate was introduced with the possibility of an only immediate re-election, thus modifying the six year mandate but with no re-election.
