Mercosur

• Friday, October 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chilean Tierra del Fuego farm sold for 20 million USD

  A long established traditional farm in Chilean Tierra del Fuego in the Timaukel area, has been sold “closed gate” to a group of Chilean investors for which they paid the equivalent of almost 20 million US dollars.

• Friday, October 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Farmed salmon disease outbreak in Magallanes

  

  Chile's government confirmed this week that Infectious Salmon Disease (ISA) virus is present in the Magallanes Region (Region XII), more precisely at a salmon farm from Nova Austral in the Puerto Natales area, north of Punta Arenas.

• Sunday, October 12th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile in summer time, forwards clocks 60 minutes

  Chile is in summer time with clocks having advanced sixty minutes during the weekend. This means that Chile's Dalylight Summer time is three hours behind Greenwish mean time.

• Thursday, October 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina calls for urgent meeting of Mercosur members

  

  Argentina proposed an urgent meeting of Mercosur country members to coordinate positions which would help address the impact of the current global financial crisis and its possible impact on the region.

• Tuesday, September 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil ready to trade in local currencies

  

  Argentina and Brazil will be launching in a week's time a “de-dollarized” trade system for small and medium companies which should considerably reduce financial costs that could be extended in the near future to the tourism industry, according to banking sources quoted in Buenos Aires La Nacion.

• Monday, September 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: UK MPs aware of Argentine economic terrorism

  

  BRITISH politicians are still very aware of what has been described by Falkland Islands' representatives as the “economic terrorism,” inflicted on the Islanders by Argentina, Councillor Ian Hansen said, speaking from the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences in the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, least corrupt in Latinamerica says TI

  

  Uruguay and Chile figure among the best ranked in Latinamerica in the latest report from Transparency International, a non government organization which rates countries according to corruption in the so called Corruption Perception Index or CPI.

• Monday, September 22nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Expectation with Mrs. Kirchner first UN assembly speech

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is scheduled to attend on Tuesday the official opening and later address the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations.

• Saturday, September 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile: expulsion of human rights activists is “regrettable”

  The expeditious expulsion by Venezuelan authorities of two members from the non government organization Human Rights Watch on Thursday night has not gone unnoticed and the Chilean government announced it will officially demand explanations from President Hugo Chavez administration.

• Monday, September 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy. Wall Street in turmoil

  

  The fourth-largest investment bank in the US, Lehman Brothers, has said it will file for bankruptcy protection, amid a growing global financial crisis.