Stories for 2012

Monday, May 28th 2012 - 16:52 UTC
British drinks group buys cachaça distillery in Brazil as it expands to emerging markets

British drinks group Diageo is buying a maker of Brazil's most popular spirit, cachaça for about 470 million dollars, boosting its expansion in fast-growing emerging markets while it fights for a bigger prize in tequila.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 16:36 UTC
Brazil “better prepared” for the current global crisis which will be “softer”

Finance minister Guido Mantega said that Brazil has double the reserves when the 2008 global recession and is prepared to confront a deepening of the European crisis but admitted that the economy would expand below 3.5% which is less than was targeted at the beginning of the year.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 16:32 UTC
Hague-Garcia-Margallo to address Gibraltar fishing incidents and border queues

Gibraltar figures importantly on the agenda for a Tuesday meeting scheduled in London between Foreign Secretary William Hague and Spanish counterpart Jose Garcia-Margallo particularly following on the recent fishing incidents and the long queues being imposed at the border by Spanish authorities.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 10:01 UTC
Reforestation of Chilean Patagonia takes off: 60.000 trees donated in first week

Planting the first of what it hopes will be a million trees, “Reforestemos (reforest) Patagonia” officially launched a campaign that will restore large swathes of Chilean Patagonia to pristine wilderness.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 08:09 UTC
CFK says handing over power in 2015 in “unavoidable”, others will have to run Argentina

Argentine President Cristina Fernández, CFK, said that handing over power is unavoidable, thus implying that she has no plans to seek a re-re-election, (not contemplated by the Constitution) and recommended those expecting her to be in office for a long time to pray the rosary at night and realize how fragile you are.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 08:01 UTC
Anti-tank mine in Chile/Peru border blows up taxi; the two countries pledge closer cooperation

The president of the Chilean Lower House Foreign Affairs committee, Jorge Tarud said on Sunday that Chile is fully complying with the Ottawa Convention and with the timetable to finish de-mining tasks along the Peruvian border.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 07:53 UTC
How do you remove and relocate half a million hogs? Chile is trying

How do you move and relocate half a million hogs? That is the challenge faced by Chilean sanitary authorities following the closure of the country’s largest pig farm forced after months of complaints from protesting neighbours about the persistent odours and infested waters.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 07:34 UTC
North Ireland leaders willing to share peace experience with Colombia lawmakers

North Ireland officials are willing to share their peace forging experiences with Colombia in the event of a peace process that puts an end to the decades-long armed conflict in the South American country.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 04:44 UTC
Pre G20 tourism summit discussed ways to promote the industry in the Americas

Public and private sector tourism leaders gathered in Mexico for the Americas Summit of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), a networking and discussion forum held at Riviera Maya on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 04:23 UTC
Secrets from the Vatican walled citadel leak out and rock the Church

The Vatican faces a widening scandal that in one short week has seen Pope Benedict's butler arrested, the president of its bank unceremoniously dismissed and the publication of a new book alleging conspiracies among cardinals.