MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 8th 2015
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Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 18:26 UTC
Santos port soy exports expected to resume at slow pace after six-day fire
Brazil’s soy exports will likely slow because a six-day fire at a nearby fuel-storage facility has restricted access to Brazil’s largest port, Santos, a port official and the soy industry association Abiove said. Authorities have agreed to restrict truck access to some terminals at the port at least through Wednesday while flames are extinguished.
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Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 17:40 UTC
Obama/Castro in Panama: 'grip and grin” photo or historic head-to-head sit down?
President Barack Obama will attend a Summit of the Americas in Panama this week, a gathering that could see the first substantive meeting between US and Cuban leaders in half a century.
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Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 17:11 UTC
Bachelet denies any idea of stepping down, because of her family's corruption scandal
“No way, I've never thought of resigning or stepping down” said emphatically Chilean president Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday, following a barrage of media rumors which echoed in the social networks during Holy Week, which in South America in a long weekend holiday.
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Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 16:12 UTC
Falklands, South Atlantic islands, Antarctica included in new Tierra del Fuego official map
Argentina's most southern province identified as Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic islands is redesigning its internal political limits with the purpose of “contributing to the territorial sovereignty of the Nation”, according to a bill sent to the provincial legislative by governor Fabiana Ríos and drafted with help from the Malvinas Question Advisory Observatory.
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Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 14:44 UTC
Argentina's few friends in the world; China and Russia, Cristina Fernandez foreign policy priorities
Argentina's foreign policy, under president Cristina Fernández, has new priorities, China and Russia, according to columnist Joaquin Morales Solá, one of the outstanding political analysts of Argentina. This means a radical change from democratic Argentina (since 1983) when the interests of the country were targeted in Latin America, particularly Brazil, Europe and the US, although the importance of the short list varied according to the different elected presidents.
