MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 26th 2016
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Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 11:10 UTC
Chilean conservatives clear win in Punta Arenas, first time in almost thirty years
The Chilean conservative alliance “Chile, let's go” which achieved a sweeping victory in last Sunday's municipal elections, causing a serious disarray to the ruling coalition New Majority with only a year before the 2017 presidential election, also managed to win the Punta Arenas mayoralty for the first time since the end of the Pinochet era.
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Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 10:57 UTC
PM Theresa May and Scotland´s First Minister Sturgeon clash over Brexit
British PM Theresa May and Scotland’s First Minister clashed at a Downing St Brexit summit dominated by a “very frank exchange of views”, Nicola Sturgeon revealed. Ms Sturgeon branded a warning from Number 10 that the devolved administrations must not try to undermine the UK’s negotiating position as “nonsense” as she labelled the talks between the PM and the leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as “deeply frustrating”.
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Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 10:35 UTC
Argentine private aircraft makes a direct Rio Gallegos flight to the Falklands for a four-day visit
Four Argentines who flew straight across from Rio Gallegos to Stanley airport in a private Beechcraft 55 and spent four days in the Falkland Islands, had only words of praise for the way they were considered and treated during the two months previous paperwork and when they finally reached their goal of visiting battle fields, cemeteries to honor the 1982 combatants who never returned.
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Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 05:48 UTC
Brazilian Lower House votes amendment to cap spending for twenty years
Brazilian President Michel Temer won another victory on Tuesday in his efforts to restore fiscal discipline when the lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment to cap spending for 20 years. Heavy public spending, a recession and a massive corruption scandal rocking Brazil's political establishment undermined confidence in Latin America's largest economy.
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Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 05:39 UTC
FAO recommends improvements to Chile's Fisheries Act: environment, food security and working conditions
President of Chile Michelle Bachelet received this week at the La Moneda presidential palace, the final report from FAO on the current situation of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act (LPGA) governing this activity in Chile.
