Stories for October 2016

Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 11:06 UTC
“No way José”, Gibraltar replies to Spain's shared sovereignty with UK proposal

Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said that all the potential economic benefits from joint UK/Spain Gibraltar sovereignty could exist today if Spain respected the Gibraltarians' choice not to be Spanish. The statement was in response to Spain's formal invitation to the UK to commence joint sovereignty negotiations on Gibraltar.
Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 11:01 UTC
London confident of a Brexit deal “suitable and adequate” for Gibraltar and UK

United Kingdom's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said he is confident a Brexit deal could be struck that “will get a suitable and adequate response to the problems we face” both for Gibraltar as well as for the UK.
Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 06:33 UTC
Malvinas has “an enormous emotional content” but “my duty is to advance dialogue in all issues”

Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that the Falklands/Malvinas issue has “an enormous emotional content”, but as her country's main diplomat her duty is to ensure a dialogue that can advance, in the best possible way, on all issues. The minister also described the Mercosur relation with Brazil as “inexorable”, which is beyond ideologies underlining the significance of Brazil's Michel Temer recent visit to Argentina.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 19:19 UTC
Cephalopods congress and frozen seafood exhibition opens in Vigo

Spain's Fisheries Secretary General Andrés Hermida opened on Monday the World Congress on Cephalopods organized by FAO and the Conxemar in Vigo underlining the importance of this large and heterogeneous group of species, --octopus, cuttlefish, squid--, for the fisheries sector and as raw material for the processing industry.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 11:55 UTC
Macri and Temer reaffirm commitment to strengthen Mercosur

Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, agreed on Monday on the need to strengthen Mercosur and to make its rules more “flexible” to ”give a certain autonomy to the (member) states in their international relations.”
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 11:31 UTC
Argentina claims squid catches in the South Atlantic have plummeted dramatically

The president of Argentina's Chamber of Jiggers Fishing Vessels Ship-owners, Juan Redini, gave some alarming figures on squid catches in the South Atlantic during a presentation at Monday's cephalopod conference held in Vigo, Spain sponsored by FAO and the Conxemar frozen seafood exhibition.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 10:20 UTC
Colombia the day after: Uribe holds the key to a peace deal, but much harsher on FARC commanders

Colombia's president tried Monday to keep alive an agreement to end Latin America's longest-running war after a shocking rejection by voters, but his opponents made clear their price for joining the effort will be steep.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 08:50 UTC
Until Falkland Islanders so wish, “there can be no dialogue on sovereignty”

The United Kingdom has no doubt about the principal and the right of the Falkland Islanders to self determination as enshrined in both the UN charter and Article one of both UN covenants of Human Rights, said British representative Barrister Margaret Purdasy, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 06:29 UTC
Lula's Workers Party support shrinks 60% in Sunday's municipal elections

Brazil’s Workers Party suffered its worst-ever result at the polls as voters used Sunday’s local elections to punish it for a deep recession and a series of corruption scandals. After 13 years in power the party saw its vote collapse across Brazil in a dramatic confirmation that it is now fighting to retain a seat at the top table of Brazilian politics following the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff in August and the decision last month to try party founder and former president Lula da Silva for corruption.
Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 04:59 UTC
Trump's campaign on the defensive in several fronts: tax elusion and fundraising

New York's attorney general ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's charitable foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, warning that a failure to do so would be a “continuing fraud.”