Stories for August 2012

Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:36 UTC
YPF trying to convince Chevron to help develop massive shale deposits in Neuquen

Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas company YPF and the head of Latin American and African operations for Chevron Corp. are discussing a potential agreement to develop the massive Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas formation in the Patagonian province of Neuquén.
Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:32 UTC
Mexico launches dispute at WTO against Argentina’ import licensing rules

Following similar complaints against Argentina by the European Union, United States and Japan, Mexico has launched its first dispute against Argentina at the World Trade Organization, the WTO announced on Monday.
Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:27 UTC
“The Islands” inspired in the Falklands, a novel about Argentine lost dreams

A novel ‘The Islands’ inspired by the Falkland Islands War and written by Argentine author Carlos Gamerro has been published in English.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:24 UTC
The Argentine tax man reviewing football players transfers and contracts

The head of Argentina’s tax office, AFIP Ricardo Echegaray announced in a press conference the agency had blocked the identification of 146 taxpayers connected to the football business. “We have to ensure football’s coherency and transparency” he remarked.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:13 UTC
Apple sweeping legal victory over Samsung; over a billion dollars in damages

Apple Inc. scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung as a US jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the US company 1.051 billion dollars in damages.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:05 UTC
Ecuador receives full support from OAS Ministers in dispute with UK over Assange case

The Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved last Friday a resolution supporting the inviolability of diplomatic premises, in accordance with the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in the context of the situation created between Ecuador and the United Kingdom.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 05:54 UTC
Argentina wants to cut Falklands’ squid catches flooding the area with jiggers

Argentina is planning the incorporation of Chinese jiggers to catch Illex squid next season, a decision rejected by the local fishing chambers but which according to the Buenos Aires financial media is linked to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:30 UTC
Opinion poll shows Cristina Fernandez rapidly losing support; crime and inflation main concerns

Argentine President Cristina Fernández popularity sank to 30% in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:21 UTC
Venezuela’s biggest refinery fire and explosion kills 41, hundreds injured

Venezuela's biggest refinery is on track to restart within two days, the Energy minister said on Sunday, a day after an explosion and fire there killed 41people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents.
Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:10 UTC
Falklands will be present at World Travel Market next November in London

The newly appointed Managing Director of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB), Tony Mason is in the Islands. Tony will work to continue to raise the profile of the Falkland Islands as an international tourism destination. Among his priorities are having the Falklands present, for the first time, at the leading global tourism trade event in London, World Travel Market.