MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 21st 2013
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Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:16 UTC
Brazilian political system from surprise to shock as there seems no end to protests
Brazil's biggest protests in two decades intensified on Thursday despite government concessions meant to quell the demonstrations, as over 300,000 people took to the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and tens of thousands more flooded an estimated one hundred cities.
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Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:10 UTC
Rousseff envoy to Argentina to try and mend trade and investment difficulties
Brazilian Industry and Foreign Trade minister Fernando Pimentel met this week in Buenos Aires with President Cristina Fernandez and members of her cabinet to address several bilateral trade issues that growingly concern President Dilma Rousseff because of Argentina’s increasingly market protection policies.
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Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:03 UTC
Main Mercosur obstacle is Argentina, say Brazilian farmers promoting an EU/Brazil trade accord
One of Mercosur ‘main obstacles’ is political and has its origin in Argentina, a country that is ‘extremely protectionist’, said the president of Brazil’s National Agriculture Confederation, CAN, Senator Katia Abreu currently in Brussels promoting the idea of a bilateral Brazil/EU free trade agreement.
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Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:01 UTC
Super star Messi and father must appear in court accused of tax fraud in Spain
Argentine soccer super star Lionel Messi and his father Jorge were ordered to appear before a Barcelona court in September after Spanish prosecutors accused the pair of tax fraud.
