Stories for 2013

Friday, June 14th 2013 - 08:16 UTC
Food commodity markets more balanced in 2013/14, says FAO Outlook

Food commodity markets, in particular for cereals, are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, according to FAO Food Outlook report published on Thursday. World food imports in 2013 are tentatively forecast at 1.09 trillion dollars, close to last year's level, but 13% below the record of 2011, the biannual report on global food markets said.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:42 UTC
Thinking in October, Cristina Fernandez demands from banks a new round of low cost business loans

Argentina will demand that banks grant a new round of low-cost business loans from July through December, totalling about 3.8 billion dollars, the central bank said on Thursday. The decision comes four months ahead of mid-term elections next October.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:32 UTC
Menem will appeal sentence to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons

An Argentine court sentenced former President Carlos Menem to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons to Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war of the 1990s, and to Ecuador. Last year Menem was acquitted along with 17 other defendants, but the Cassation Court convicted 12 of them and urged the judges to change the verdicts.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:29 UTC
Argentina train crash kills 3, injures 315 and sparks controversy over the rail system

At least three people were killed and 315 others injured when two trains collided Thursday morning outside Argentina's capital, officials said. The causes of the accident are yet to be determined and have already triggered controversy giving the poor conditions of the Argentine railway system.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:25 UTC
Structural reform to ensure faster growth remains a main challenge for Latam economies

Finding the optimal balance between macroeconomic policies to stimulate domestic demand in the short term and structural reforms to enable faster growth over the longer run, remain as the main challenges for the Latinamerican economies, according to the latest report from the World Bank.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 02:03 UTC
Chinese jiggers’ seamen landed in Montevideo died of lack of proper food and tropical parasitosis

The most probable death cause of the Chinese crewmembers from two jiggers in quarantine outside the port of Montevideo was lack of sufficient nutrient and balanced food plus tropical parasitosis, according to the primary forensic reports from Uruguayan health authorities.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:16 UTC
Falklands have never been part of Argentina and Islanders overwhelmingly voted to remain British

The following piece was written by Andrew Ayre, British High Commissioner in Georgetown, Guyana and published in StabroekNews from Guyana.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:12 UTC
Chile and UK hold annual round of defense talks in London

Chile and the UK held a round of defense talks in London at the end of May as part of the defense and security agreements between the two countries. The talks took place at the Ministry of Defense and were hosted by the UK Minister for International Security Strategy, Dr. Andrew Murrison.
Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:05 UTC
NASA investing in 3D ‘pizza printer’ for astronauts long space missions

With concerns about our ability to feed 12 billion people by the end of the century, one engineer is looking to replace conventional food with something produced by a 3D printer, and he’s getting a grant from NASA to create a prototype.
Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 23:49 UTC
Paraguay and Mexico advancing towards an economic complementation accord

Technical groups from Paraguay and Mexico advanced on Wednesday talks for the creation of an Economic complementation Accord in the framework of the Latam Integration Association, ALADI, which is considered the “step previous to a full free trade treaty”, reported from Asuncion Paraguay’s foreign ministry.