Stories for 2012

Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 01:20 UTC
Uruguay president and vice-president clash over Venezuela’s Mercosur admission

Uruguayan Vice president Danilo Astori openly clashed with President Jose Mujica over the recent decision to incorporate Venezuela to Mercosur arguing it was “the deepest institutional injury” suffered by the block and questioned the concept that the juridical “has to be at the service of the political”.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 23:48 UTC
OAS report to the Permanent Council does not favour suspending Paraguay

The Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said that to suspend Paraguay from the OAS “would not contribute to the achievement of our objectives”, governance, the electoral process and institutional normality.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:53 UTC
IAATO helps with checklists for assessing Antarctic land bases and yachting expeditions

Safe and environmentally responsible travel to the Antarctic featured prominently in the official press communiqué issued at the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XXXV), which concluded June 20 in Hobart, Australia. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XV).
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:22 UTC
Brazil plans to combat endemic dengue fever with GM mosquitoes

Brazil said it will breed huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide, killing 74.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:17 UTC
China feeling the strain of global slowdown: US overtakes EU as main export market

China's June trade data stoked anxiety about the strength of domestic demand in the world's second biggest economy as imports rose at only half the pace expected, signalling a need for Beijing to do more to bolster growth.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:07 UTC
Argentina reports the US and Japan before the WTO for restrictions on beef and lemons

Argentina announced it has formally reported the United States and Japan before the World Trade Organization for the constant barriers set to Argentina’s meat and lemon exports to the afore mentioned countries.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:02 UTC
The 34-country OECD has 48 million jobless with little hopes until 2014

Unemployment in advanced economies will remain high until at least the end of 2013, with young people and the low-skilled bearing the brunt of what is by far the weakest economic recovery in the past four decades, the OECD said today.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 14:27 UTC
Argentine Navy tall ship Libertad visits Guyana and Suriname

Argentina’s Navy tall ship ARA Libertad is docked some ten miles off the coast of Guyana and entertained Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and members of the diplomatic corps as a part of its round-the-world trip which concludes in December of this year.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 05:27 UTC
Defence minister Puricelli: Argentina’s Malvinas sovereignty claim is a regional commitment

Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli said that in the same way “the independence of the Argentines is the independence of the region”, the defence of Argentina is also the defence of the region and in this framework of integration Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands is a regional commitment.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 05:24 UTC
Cristina Fernandez on Independence Day calls for unity and support for the economic model

Argentine President Cristina Fernández made a strong call to unity and to defend the economic model during the main celebrations of the 196th anniversary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence held at San Miguel de Tucumán.