Pessimistic comments from Germany and new figures exposing deepening stress among Europe's banks dented financial market hopes of a turning point in the Euro zone's debt crisis at a summit this week.
Argentine lawmaker and president of the Malvinas Islands Parliamentary Observatory Alfredo Atanasof said Britain’s intention of creating a huge marine conservation zone in waters of South Georgia was “completely illegitimate”.
The Canadian government launched on Wednesday the First Ministerial Dialogue on the Americas with more than a hundred representatives from the private sector, academia, think tanks, civil society organizations and government.
China will attempt to counterbalance the drop in exports to the European Union and the United States concentrating in emerging markets such as Latin America and Asia, said on Wednesday Wang Shouwen, head of International Trade from the Beijing Ministry of Trade.
China and Bolivia have agreed to strengthen military relations which are a continuation of the “excellent links in other fields”, according to an official press release in Beijing
The winner of the Nobel Prize in economics says that a decade ago he feared the Euro would face problems because there wasn't enough fiscal coordination between countries to support it.
The UK has protested to Argentina over its interception of Falkland Islands-licensed fishing boats, mainly Spanish in disputed South Atlantic waters and in the River Plate when they approach the port of Montevideo.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner threw his weight on Tuesday behind a Franco-German plan to tackle the Euro zone's sovereign debt crisis and said the European Central Bank had to play a major role in any solution.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Standard & Poor’s downgrade warning for 15 Euro- area governments will spur European leaders to double efforts to resolve the debt crisis at the Dec. 8-9 summit.
The potential of India for Latinamerican exports and investment opportunities was underscored during the presentation of a report “India and Latin America and the Caribbean, opportunities and challenges in trade and investment relations” sponsored by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC.