Stories for December 2012

Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:59 UTC
Petrobras selling its assets in Argentina; YPF one of the interested companies

Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras is putting its Argentine assets up for sale and will start accepting bids from interested buyers as early as this week, Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion reported Friday.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:56 UTC
Peru and Chile sign next week ‘free of mines’ designated areas along their border

Next week Chile and Peru will have concluded sweeping their border of anti personnel and anti tank mines, announced Claudio de la Puente, head of the Latin American Desk at the Peruvian Foreign ministry.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 16:57 UTC
Law of the Sea court orders ‘immediate’ release of ARA Libertad

The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered on Saturday the release of ARA Libertad, the Argentine naval training ship which has been detained in Ghana since October at the request of holders of defaulted Argentine state bonds.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 09:20 UTC
Highly invasive, voracious and dangerous African snail found in Paraguay

The giant East African snail, (Achatina fúlica), listed among the world’s top 100 invasive species, extremely voracious and which can transmit deadly diseases to humans has been found in empty lots in the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este, next to Brazil.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:37 UTC
Tearful Obama addresses the nation: calls for “meaningful action against these tragedies”

A tearful President Barak Obama said US leaders must ”take meaningful action'' regardless of politics in response to the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:33 UTC
Argentina’s official November inflation 0.9%; half the 1.81% congressional index

Argentina's official inflation was 0.9% in November, rising slightly from October's 0.8% rate, the government stats office Indec said on Friday.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:31 UTC
Mexico ready to drop WTO complaint after reaching auto accord with Argentina

Mexico said it would drop a complaint over import curbs against Argentina before the World Trade Organization after the two countries signed a more limited automobile trade pact.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:29 UTC
“Doctors of the World” claims there are 16.000 living in the streets of Buenos Aires

There are over 16.000 homeless living in the streets of Buenos Aires with great difficulties to access public health services according to the ‘Health in the streets’ report from ‘Doctors of the world’ and which was released Friday in the Argentine capital.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:15 UTC
“Support linked to competitiveness” Merkel tells the EU members

European leaders agreed on Friday to press on with further steps to tackle their debt crisis but German Chancellor Angela Merkel threw out a proposal to boost risk-sharing with a fund to help Euro zone states in trouble.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:05 UTC
Victory for Cristina Fernandez: Federal Judge declares constitutional Media Law

Argentine Federal Judge Horacio Alfonso declared that articles 45 and 161 of the controversial 2009 Media Law are “constitutional,” and ordered the injunction that left the application of the law in suspense to be lifted immediately.