Stories for 2012

Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:59 UTC
Argentina on track to become world’s fourth largest producer of poultry meat

Industry Minister Debora Giorgi said that Argentina is on track to become, in the short term, the fourth largest producer of poultry meat. According to the Industrial Strategic Plan 2020, the sector achieved in less than a decade exports of 600.000 tons per year.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:53 UTC
Brazilian government to the rescue of pork farmers; excess production

The Brazilian government will spend 30.4 million Reais (15.05 million dollars) to buy 76,000 metric tons of excess live swine, through a minimum-price plan created to help Brazilian producers get out from under a national oversupply of pork, the Ministry of Agriculture announced.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:46 UTC
The next December solstice celebration in Bolivia will have Coca Cola after all

Bolivia said on Wednesday that statements from Foreign minister David Choquehuanca about “the end of Coca Cola” were taken out of context adding there are no plans to expulse the US Company from the country, as published in the local media.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:40 UTC
Swedish authorities turn down offer to question Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

Ecuador wants to prevent Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden because it is disappointed that the Scandinavian country has turned down an offer to question the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a minister said on Wednesday.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:34 UTC
India’s two power outage incidents in two days punished almost a billion people

New Delhi’s Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade on Tuesday cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:25 UTC
Uruguay industries lobby questions the growing “political” predominance in Mercosur

The ‘new’ Mercosur with Venezuela as a full member reinforces the regional block as a forum of ‘political understanding’ and no longer as an integration process ruled by international law.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:15 UTC
Argentina presents official protest to UK over Malvinas cemetery vandalism

The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed in a release that it had delivered an official protest to the United Kingdom repudiating “the profanation of the monument” in Darwin, Falkland Islands, to the memory of the Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 Malvinas war.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:33 UTC
Research shows Antarctica at one time had mild weather and palms and conifers

Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:28 UTC
Brazilian tourists swamp Chilean winter resorts; 30% more in first half of 2012

Chile’s Under Secretary for Tourism Jacqueline Plass reported that the arrival of Brazilian tourists had soared 30% in the first half of the year, attracted mostly to the ski centres along the Andes Mountains and to Patagonia.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:19 UTC
Namibia will supply cement for St Helena 300m dollars airport in South Atlantic

Namibian cement company Ohorongo cement has secured a three-year contract with construction firm Basil Read for the supply of cement for the building of a new airport on the British overseas territory of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, over 1900km from the Namibian coast.