MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 13th 2014
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:11 UTC
World cereal production forecasted to be a record in 2014, according to FAO
FAO's Food Price Index is a trade-weighted index that measures prices of five major food commodities on international markets: in addition to sub-indices for prices of cereals, it also tracks meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, and sugar.
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:02 UTC
Bachelet government seek to repeal dictator Pinochet's Amnesty Law
As Chileans commemorated the 41 st anniversary of the 1973 military coup, Justice Minister José Antonio Gomez announced that the government of Michelle Bachelet will seek to repeal the Amnesty Law, a legacy of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 06:57 UTC
Argentina with two August inflation measures: the official Indec, 1,3% and the congressional rate, 2.65%
Argentina has two consumer prices indexes, and they differ considerably. In effect during August the so called congressional index doubled the official rate: the National Urban Consumer Price (IPCNU) released by the stats office Indec, in the eighth month of the year was 1,3%, which means inflation in the first eight months stands at 18,2%.
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 06:44 UTC
Argentina guarantees car makers sufficient dollars to meet production target
Car makers in Argentina have sufficient dollars to meet production and sales targets, the government said Friday, a day after General Motors Co announced it had suspended exports from Brazil to its Argentine unit due to a hard currency shortage.
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:37 UTC
Falklands and the ”unwelcome visits from (Argentine) aircraft”
Gerald Cheek, now retired from his position as Falkland Islands Director of Civil Aviation, has addressed a letter to the Penguin News clarifying some details about the 'Unwelcome visits from aircraft', clearly in reference to episodes of Argentine aircraft incursion and landing in the Islands.
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Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:13 UTC
Venezuela quietly working to ensure a seat at the UN Security Council
Venezuela’s populist government has quietly secured the backing of Latin America and the Caribbean to obtain a diplomatic trophy that long eluded the late Hugo Chavez: a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
