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Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 14:14 UTC
Controversial plans to excavate Falklands’ conflict battlefields in 2012 are abandoned

The proposal, reported by “The Scotsman” newspaper earlier this month, of television archaeologist and University of Glasgow academic, Dr. Tony Pollard to excavate the battlefields of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict next year during the 30th Anniversary of the conflict have been abandoned.
Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 05:06 UTC
Brazilian leading meat processors exchange assets to comply with anti-trust body

Brazilian meat processors BRF Brasil Foods and Marfrig announced a deal on Thursday to trade assets, including a block of properties that Brazilian anti-trust body CADE mandated to be sold as part of the Sadia and Perdigao approval in July.
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 19:21 UTC
The thuggery of Argentina's Falklands claim

By Ian Dunt @IanDunt<http://twitter.com/iandunt - “The protection of peoples' self-determination to choose their own government is the protection of the weak from the strong”
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 19:09 UTC
Foreign Office says economic blockade and intimidation of the Falklands’ people is “unacceptable”

“It is unacceptable to engage in an economic blockade of the Falklands, there can be no justification, legal, moral or political, for efforts to intimidate the people of the Falkland Islands”, said Foreign Officer Minister Jeremy Browne on Wednesday.
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 17:24 UTC
The Falklands are resourceful and will adapt to changing logistics say industry sources

Reacting to the news this week that all Mercosur member countries had agreed to close their ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag, Cheryl Roberts, chair of the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association, stated that: “It is still too early to say exactly what the effect might be, whilst obviously disappointing we are now working to find solutions to minimise any potential impacts, both operational and economic, of the recent decision.
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:58 UTC
“Malvinas is a global cause” because it involves the grabbing of natural resources

“Malvinas is not an Argentine cause, it’s a global cause because they are taking our fisheries and oil resources” said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on taking the Mercosur rotating chair for the next six months.
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:53 UTC
Mercosur supports Argentina: bans access to all Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessels

Mercosur member countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) finally agreed Tuesday to close its ports to ships flying the flag of the disputed Falkland/Malvinas Islands, announced Uruguay's president at the closing of the group’s two-day summit in Montevideo.
Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 21:02 UTC
Uruguay bars vessels but will never share a maritime or economic blockade of the Falklands’ people

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica addressing his peers at the Mercosur summit in Montevideo ratified the country’s position barring Falklands’ flagged vessels from Uruguayan ports in active support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over South Atlantic Islands, which has led to a serious diplomatic controversy with the UK.
Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 19:28 UTC
Mercosur summit suspended following suicide of a top Argentine official

The Mercosur presidential summit in Montevideo has been temporarily suspended following the news that a member of the Argentine delegation had committed suicide which left delegation members in a state of shock.
Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 07:25 UTC
Malvinas jurisdictional acts are ‘invalid’ for Uruguay, but UK flagged vessels welcomed in Montevideo

“Any jurisdictional acts coming from Malvinas is invalid for us” and therefore Malvinas flagged vessels are barred from Uruguayan ports, a decision which is extensive to all Unasur members, said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro.