Stories for August 26th 2016

Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:53 UTC
Nin Novoa exposes Mercosur disarray: “It's her; I'm the only minister she talks to”

The fracture in Mercosur was candidly revealed by Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa during an agro-business conference of cooperatives in Montevideo when he received a phone call from his Venezuelan peer Delcy Rodríguez.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:44 UTC
Total inaugurates gas field offshore Tierra del Fuego with potential production of 10m cubic meters per day

Argentina will officially inaugurate this Friday the Vega Pléyade natural gas field, twenty kilometers offshore Tierra del Fuego to the south of the San Sebastián bay. The field started production last February and as “a production potential of 10 million cubic meters per day”.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:34 UTC
Theresa May pledges full support for Gibraltar in private letter to Picardo

United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged her new administration’s full support to Gibraltar, in a recent private letter to Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:16 UTC
Blatter confident his six-year ban from football will be lifted

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he’s confident his six-year ban from football will be lifted. Blatter resigned as the head of FIFA in June 2015 after 17 years at the helm and just four days after his reelection for a fifth term he was handed an eight-year ban along with European football chief Michel Platini for ethics violations.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:07 UTC
Striking Bolivian mines kidnap and kill deputy Interior minister

Bolivian Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes has been killed after being kidnapped by striking mineworkers, the government said late on Thursday. Illanes had gone to talk to protesters earlier on Thursday in Panduro, around 160 km from the capital, La Paz, but was intercepted and kidnapped by striking miners.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 10:55 UTC
Argentina's economy contracts 4.3% year-on-year in June

Argentina's economy shrank 4.3% year-on-year in June, a much sharper contraction than expected in the first official growth data reported during President Mauricio Macri's term.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 08:35 UTC
Malcorra behind the Portuguese candidate in her bid to become UN secretary-general

Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra visited Cairo courting Egyptian support for her bid to become the next UN secretary-general, following on from her visit to Angola earlier in the week. The minister also met with secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit. However the emergent frontrunner to succeed Ban Kimoon is ex Portuguese prime minister is Antonio Guterres.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 08:13 UTC
Falklands and Montserrat sign marine spatial environment partnership accord

UK Overseas Territories governments of the Falkland Islands and Montserrat have signed an agreement that facilitates a Territory to Territory partnership with the purpose of transferring knowledge and skills from the South Atlantic and the Caribbean. The skills and knowledge transfer will focus on information management and marine spatial planning.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 07:28 UTC
Colombia launches referendum campaign; doubts remain on peace accord terms

After sealing a historic peace accord with the FARC rebels, the Colombian government launched a campaign on Thursday to persuade voters to adopt it in a referendum on October 2.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 07:10 UTC
Santos announces definitive ceasefire starting midnight Monday 29 August

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the army on Thursday to observe a definitive ceasefire with the FARC rebels after the two sides reached a deal to end their half-century conflict