Stories for 2016

Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 11:36 UTC
Ushuaia plans to expand main port pier 251 meters and improve facilities

Ushuaia, the world's most extreme south city and the gateway for Antarctica cruise tours is planning to upgrade its port facilities including the expansion of the main pier by 251 meters increasing the docking capacity for tourism vessels during the summer season.
Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 11:23 UTC
Uruguay will transfer Mercosur chair to Venezuela, despite objections from Brazil and Paraguay

Despite objections from Brazil and Paraguay, Uruguay next Saturday 30 July will transfer to Venezuela the rotating chair of Mercosur for the second half of the year, as indicated in the “group's rules and regulations”.
Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 06:35 UTC
“Gringo” president with pro-business cabinet and limited congressional support takes office in Peru

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes office as Peru's presidency this Thursday with a Cabinet that shares his Ivy League, pro-business pedigree — a reliance on technocrats that could become a liability as he deals with an unfriendly congress, a resurgent left and environment aware peasants and indigenous peoples living on rich natural resources.
Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 06:19 UTC
Falklands and bilateral agenda addressed by UK top official in Argentina

The recently appointed UK Foreign Office Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Simon McDonald was received this week at the Argentine foreign ministry where he met with Deputy minister Carlos Foradori, and one of the several issues addressed was the forensic actions to help identify Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery, according to a release from Palacio San Martin.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 15:14 UTC
Argentina and Brazil celebrate 25th anniversary of accord which buried nuclear rivalry

Argentina and Brazil commemorated on 18 July the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Material, ABACC, which was the result of the nuclear energy exclusive peaceful use accord, signed by then presidents Carlos Menem and Fernando Collor, in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 14:01 UTC
Rousseff and Lula will not attend Rio Olympic Games opening

Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor and left-wing ally Lula da Silva will boycott the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympics, officials have said. Their absence at the 5 August ceremony highlights the political crisis in Brazil, with Rousseff facing possible removal from office in an impeachment trial shortly after the Games end.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:51 UTC
Temer vetoes foreign 100% ownership of Brazilian airlines

Brazil's interim President Michel Temer vetoed on Tuesday an article in a new law, which would allow foreign investors to take 100% ownership of Brazilian airlines, according to the official Gazette. The article is part of a law seeking to modify areas of the aviation sector, mainly in order to allow the state-owned airport infrastructure firm, Infraero, to restructure its debts.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:34 UTC
Argentina planning tourist air tours of Antarctica beginning 2018

Argentina plans to organize tourist air tours to Antarctica beginning 2018, with the government's airline, LADE, according to official sources from the Tourism and Defense ministries.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:11 UTC
Falklands' latest longliner launched in Spain; scheduled to be delivered early 2017

Falkland Islands Consolidated Fisheries Ltd. new longliner was launched in Spain last 20 July at an event attended by a number of CFL staff, directors, and Galician business people linked to the fishing industry.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 12:57 UTC
Wet weather conditions Argentine wheat crop; 2016/17 corn area expected to expand

Hopes for a revival in Argentina’s wheat production are falling, even as ideas for corn growing continue to mount, in part at the expense of soybeans, for which seed availability has emerged as an issue. Argentina’s wheat production will increase in 2016-17, but not by as much as had been thought, the US Department of Agriculture bureau in Buenos Aires said, cutting to 13.7m tons their harvest forecast.