Stories for 2012

Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:33 UTC
Argentina imposes new restrictions to slow consumer goods’ imports

Argentina will impose new restrictions on consumer goods’ imports, according to a resolution from the Revenue Office published this week in the Official Gazette and effective next February first.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:30 UTC
Argentine farm leader says Agriculture minister is not qualified and knows little about droughts

An Argentine farmers’ leader said that Agriculture Minister Norberto Yauhar who tried to downplay the seriousness of the current drought for crops, “is not qualified for the job, plus knows very little about droughts”.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:29 UTC
Latin America a “top priority” for President Rajoy’s foreign policy

Spanish president Mariano Rajoy said that Latin America is a “top priority” of his administration’s foreign policy and his target is to have the “best possible” relations with the Ibero-American community.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:27 UTC
A divided EU to decide on oil embargo on Iran January 23

European Union governments agreed Tuesday to bring forward a meeting of foreign ministers expected to decide on an oil embargo on Iran by one week to January 23. In its statement confirming the date, the EU said the decision to bring it forward from January 30 was taken to avoid a scheduling clash with a summit of EU leaders set for that day.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:27 UTC
Brazil runs the risk of becoming highly dependent on natural-resources exports

A leading Brazilian economist Edmar Bacha, one of the architects behind the 1994 Plan Real to stabilize Latin America’s largest economy said the country was at risk of becoming entirely dependent on natural resources exports and urged greater savings to invest in diversification.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:24 UTC
Chilean Patagonia in the 2012 top ten travel destinations of the New York Times

Chile has been included in the New York Times’ list of top travel destinations in 2012, with Chilean Patagonia in 8th place, and Chiloé in 37th place out of a total of 45.
Wednesday, January 11th 2012 - 06:22 UTC
Argentina says no change in Mercosur decision to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels

Argentina in two brief statements said on Tuesday that there has been no change in Mercosur members’ position to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels from the region’s ports and that the United Kingdom admits that such policy has become effective.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 21:57 UTC
Malvinas recovery for Argentina must become a “Chilean cause”, says former minister

Chilean former Foreign Affairs minister and ambassador before the UN, Juan Gabriel Valdes has called for Chileans to adopt the Argentine sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands --disputed with the UK--, as a “Chilean cause”.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 21:09 UTC
Falklands’ “black gold rush” means a decade of big money, with or without oil

Thirty years after the Falkland Islands conflict, the South Atlantic Islands are the focus of a “black gold rush” as a string of exploration companies seek to be the first to find commercially viable reserves in the region, writes the London Express City & Business.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 15:42 UTC
UK tells Mercosur it will resist any attempts to coerce the Falklands

The British government said it would resist any attempts to coerce the Falkland Islands through economic or other pressures, and revealed it is holding ‘productive discussions’ with Uruguay, Chile and Brazil to ensure trade and commercial links between the Islands and South America are not compromised by political declarations.