Stories for August 2012

Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:57 UTC
Black-browed Albatross success in Falklands not reflected in South Georgia

The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter has an interesting comment on the recent announcement that the Falklands’ population of black-browed Albatross has seen a healthy increase in the number of breeding birds, information that has been submitted to BirdLife International for use in the Red List assessment process
Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:51 UTC
Chile announces plan to improve living conditions of the indigenous Mapuche peoples

In a special cabinet meeting last Friday, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera proposed a series of measures aimed at improving infrastructure and human investment in the south-central Araucanía region.
Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:47 UTC
Poll shows deeper interest rates cuts expected from the Brazilian central bank

Weak economic growth will likely prompt Brazil's central bank to cut interest rates deeper than previously expected this year, a weekly central bank survey of economists showed on Monday.
Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:37 UTC
Brazil begins major military exercise to test security along its southern borders

Brazilian Armed Forces began this week a major deployment along the borders of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia involving 9.000 troops from the three services with the purpose of testing border security against smugglers mainly of arms and drugs and organized crime, said the Ministry of Defence.
Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 00:58 UTC
South Georgia ‘77 “Operation Journeyman”, a drill for the recovery of the Falklands in 1982

The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter recalls a major British military and political event in the South Atlantic has been largely overlooked by the region’s history books. A Royal Navy task force, codenamed Operation Journeyman, was deployed to the waters around South Georgia and the Falklands in 1977 following the occupation of Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands by 50 Argentine “scientists”.
Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 20:14 UTC
Mercosur has only benefited Brazil in the last ten years with a surplus of 36.8bn

Brazil is the only country that in the last ten years has benefited from Mercosur with an intra-zone trade surplus of 36.8 billion dollars while the other three full members, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay have accumulated huge deficits in the same period, according to Argentine economist Orlando Ferreres a regular columnist from La Nacion with graduate studies in Harvard.
Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 19:17 UTC
Argentine president declared assets valued in 8.6 million dollars

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has assets of almost 40 million Argentine Pesos according to her latest income statement before the Anti Corruption office. This includes the 31 million inherited from her late husband Nestor Kirchner who died in October 2010.
Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:26 UTC
Rice supply outstrips demand despite lower 2012 production according to FAO

The United Nations’ food agency cut its 2012 global rice production forecast but said supply would still outstrip demand and that there was no increased risk of a food crisis as long as countries do not resort to export bans.
Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:19 UTC
Spain says the Gibraltar dispute is back on the ‘Brussels process” bilateral track

Spain’s new Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Federico Trillo-Figueroa, has claimed that his Foreign Minister, Jose Garcia Margallo, has managed to revive bilateral dialogue with UK over Gibraltar within the Brussels context.
Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:13 UTC
Argentine supermarkets must keep records of clients that spend plus 210 dollars

Argentine supermarkets must keep records of sales of plus 1.000 Pesos which must be available to tax inspectors, according to the latest decision from AFIP the tax revenue office. A thousand Pesos at the official rate is equivalent to 210 dollars and in the parallel 140 dollars.