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Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 00:25 UTC
For Santander bank, “Brazil is the most important country in the world”

Banco Santander chairman Emilio Botin denied this week that he is selling his company’s assets in Brazil and said his bank is only interested in “buying” in Latinamerica’s leading economy.
Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 - 23:58 UTC
EU wooing Latinamerica that is focused on China, now its leading trade partner

Several European leaders among which the president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the head of EU diplomacy Catherine Ashton are touring several Latinamerican countries with the purpose of strengthening relations with a region in full development but which lately has been increasingly focused on China.
Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 19:54 UTC
The Falklands people decision in March should be the final word

One of the leading New Zealand newspapers, The Dominion Post, has addressed the issue of the Falklands, the dispute with Argentina and the coming March referendum in an editorial “Islanders should decide their destiny”, which we kindly reproduce.
Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 05:19 UTC
Europe the “most desired strategic partner” of Latinamerica, according to Spanish report

The European Union is the “most desired strategic partner” of Latinamerica, although with different intensity, according to a report from the International Prospective Institute, IPI, released on Monday in Madrid and ahead of the coming EU/CELAC summit in Santiago de Chile.
Monday, January 21st 2013 - 16:12 UTC
Plans for temporary oil industry port in the Falklands to develop Sea Lion field

A temporary port for the oil industry to the east of the Falkland Islands capital is under consideration, but will be removed once a deep water modern permanent sea terminal is constructed in Port William, according to local officials.
Monday, January 21st 2013 - 15:02 UTC
Argentine state workers union challenges official inflation stats with own index

The insistence of the Argentine government with its official inflation stats, questioned by the IMF and other sectors of the country, will also be challenged by the powerful state workers union, ATE, which will publish a report on prices in Argentina and the basic needs of an average family.
Monday, January 21st 2013 - 13:51 UTC
Cristina Fernandez ends her visit to Vietnam, “an icon for her generation”

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez ended on Sunday in Hanoi her visit to Vietnam the last leg of a week-long business and political trip that took her to the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and finally the land which she emphasized represented an icon for her generation.
Monday, January 21st 2013 - 11:28 UTC
Argentina’s wheat crop down to 10 million tons; 2011/12 planted area 25% less

Argentina will produce 10.1 million tons of wheat this season, the agricultural ministry said, citing extreme weather as the reason for cutting back its previous estimate of 10.5 million tons. With almost all of the harvest already collected, Argentina is looking at a thin wheat harvest, compared with the 14.1 million tons collected in the 2011/12 crop year.
Sunday, January 20th 2013 - 22:20 UTC
Uruguay opens historic diplomatic archives to Malvinas war veterans

Uruguay will open on Monday 21 January its diplomacy archives to that Malvinas war veterans can consult classified information referred to the South Atlantic conflict when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982.
Sunday, January 20th 2013 - 21:22 UTC
Cristina Fernandez re-election back on the political agenda ahead of the mid term October election

The possibility of a re-re-election of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is back in the political agenda, this time spurred by a member of the Lower House with close contacts with trade unions and father of the General Manager of the now re-nationalized Argentine flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas