Stories for November 2016

Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:27 UTC
Argentina plans to cull 100.000 beavers devastating Tierra del Fuego woodlands

Argentina will cull 100,000 beavers which are devastating southern woodlands by gnawing down huge trees, officials said this week. The plague of big-toothed rodents has struck in the Tierra del Fuego province, a far southern region known as “the End of the World.”
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:19 UTC
Argentina's main network Telefe with 26,8m subscribers sold to Viacom for US$345m

Viacom Inc, the owner of Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV, said on Tuesday it had bought Argentine broadcaster Television Federal SA (Telefe) from telecom carrier Telefonica SAfor US$345 million in cash. The deal to buy the Spanish-language network and content producer is part of Viacom's plan to boost its presence in Argentina and Latin America.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:16 UTC
Brazil's annual inflation below 8%; October's 0.26% increase was the lowest since 2000

Brazil's annual inflation rate in October fell below 8% for the first time since February 2015, keeping the door open for small interest rate cuts as a deep recession lingers. Prices rose 7.87% in the 12 months through October, down from an annual increase of 8.48% in the previous month, statistics bureau IBGE said.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:06 UTC
Trump receives Japan's Abe in New York expecting to reassure Asian allies

Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as U.S. president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said. Abe, a political blue blood and veteran lawmaker, and Trump, a brash outsider with no diplomatic or government experience, have differences on policy issues such as free trade.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 08:55 UTC
Brazil and Argentina crop and yield estimates on the increase

Brazil and Argentina production estimates are going up, but hailstorms ruined soybean and corn crops in Argentina’s Santa Fe Province. However, La Niña is forecast to be relatively mild this year, according to NOAA forecasters.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 08:47 UTC
EU farmers on alert at the prospect of increased imports of beef from Mercosur

Cheaper imports from Mercosur and the recovering dairy market will push down EU beef production and prices, states in a long-awaited impact study released by the European Union. Dairy and pigmeat exports will see steady gains, says the report, which looked at the cost of 12 pending trade deals on EU agri-food markets.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 20:09 UTC
World cereal production remains strong; summer 2017 crops in South America expected to expand

World cereal production for 2016 should amount to 2 571 million tonnes, up marginally from FAO's October forecast and 1.5% above the 2015 output. The updated figure, released Monday in the Cereal and Supply Demand Brief, reflects a substantial upgrade of the outlook for world wheat production, which is now expected to rise to 746.7 million tonnes, a 4.3 million increase from FAO's October forecast.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 11:07 UTC
Shell planning to invest US$ 10bn in Brazil's deep water production

Oil major Shell is planning to continue investing heavily in Brazil as part of a bid to double its global deep water production by the early 2020s. Shell plans to invest US$10 billion over the next five years, Wael Sawan, the company’s executive vice president for deep water, said in an interview this week.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:52 UTC
Chilean human rights organizations demand Chief Justice's resignation

Hugo Dolmestch, Chief Justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, must resign because “he does not respect international humanitarian law,” according to Alicia Lira, head of the Association of Relatives of Political Executees.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:42 UTC
Bolivia: Evo Morales admits he is not ready to go home in 2019

Despite what most Bolivians voted for on February 21, that is against the incumbent president being eligible to run for yet another re-election,