Mercosur

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 15:44 UTC

  Marina blasts Dilma Rousseff for not supporting UN deforestation dead line initiative

  

  Environmentalist and presidential opposition candidate Marina Silva blasted Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff for not supporting an initiative to put a deadline on deforestation supported by 32 countries this Tuesday during the Climate summit in New York.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 15:42 UTC

  Deforestation deadline initiative watered down by lack of support from Brazil

  

  More than 30 countries set the first-ever deadline on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, but the feasibility of such a goal was eroded when a key player, Brazil, said it would not join.

• Friday, September 19th 2014 - 07:28 UTC

  EU hopeful the free trade accord with Mercosur will be reached next year

  

  Once the EU and Mercosur exchange their proposals for a free trade agreement, negotiations will 'move fast' and the deal should be closed sometime in 2015, according to EU ambassador in Montevideo, Juan Fernandez Trigo. But he also pointed out that he expected Mercosur proposal to be in accordance with terms established in 2010.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:28 UTC

  Mercosur/Pacific Alliance foreign ministers plan to meet in Chile in November

  

  Foreign affairs ministers from Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance will be meeting next 24 November in Santiago de Chile to explore a possible integration between the two blocks according to Paraguay's foreign minister Eladio Loizaga.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 17:00 UTC

  There are two Mercosur, but only the ideological one prevails

  

  The original Mercosur is over; it has been reduced to a political block with a three member board, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, according to Demetrio Magnoli a renowned Folha de Sao Paulo columnist who added that the 'political' Mercosur has helped the Alliance of the Pacific to advance.

• Friday, September 5th 2014 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentine Senate approves bill changing debt payment jurisdiction; next step Lower House

  

  Argentina's Senate on Thursday passed a bill aimed at circumventing U.S. court decisions regarding its defaulted debt by changing payment jurisdiction, sending the proposal to the lower house Chamber of Deputies for final approval. The chamber, like the Senate, is controlled by government allies who are expected to vote the bill into law.

• Friday, September 5th 2014 - 07:33 UTC

  NML Capital subpoenaed 18 banks in search of embezzled Argentine funds

  

  NML Capital Ltd, a creditor suing Argentina in the U.S. courts for full payment on defaulted debt, subpoenaed 18 banks last week in an effort to track down 65 million dollars in what it says is embezzled Argentine money laundered through the United States.

• Friday, September 5th 2014 - 07:13 UTC

  Uruguay's main presidential opposition candidate suffers “Watergate break-in” crime

  

  Uruguay's main opposition candidate for October's contested presidential election was the victim of a “Watergate break-in” crime at the offices of the agency which is running his surprisingly successful campaign.

• Friday, September 5th 2014 - 03:28 UTC

  Falklands' GDP 'volatile' because of fisheries and oil and gas exploration

  

  Recently released data shows that the Falkland Islands Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to be volatile: expanding considerably during some years and shrinking in others. For example, 2012, a year of intense hydrocarbons activity the per capita for a population of 2.562, in the books soared to £77.400.

• Friday, September 5th 2014 - 02:14 UTC

  Brazil leaves basic interest rate unchanged at 11%, given 'inflation prospects'

  

  With Brazil battling recession and inflation a month away from the presidential election, the Central bank kept its key interest rate on hold at 11%. Traders and analysts had forecast no change and the central bank's monetary policy commission (Copom) duly decided to leave all quiet following its monthly two-day meeting.