Mercosur

• Monday, July 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur “fantastic but frustrated” idea, ripe in mistakes

  

  Mercosur is an idea which “involved a fantastic but frustrated will power” according to former Spanish Socialist president Felipe Gonzalez. A previous common infrastructure commitment is more important for integration that having “political groupings such as Mercosur”.

• Friday, July 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Hundreds of penguin chicks swept ashore in Rio do Janeiro

  Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and the South Atlantic are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said on Friday.

• Thursday, July 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur and EU planning post-Doha trade negotiations

  

  Mercosur and the European Union could resume trade talks in two months time because “we're interested in having an open discussion next September or October” according to the EU commissioner for Latinamerica Stefano Saninno who this week visited Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, July 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur unsatisfied with WTO agenda for next meeting

  

  Brazil's Foreign Affairs Minister Celso Amorim said that developed nations' agricultural subsidies and tariff barriers for farm goods remain the biggest obstacle to an agreement on the long-stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization talks.

• Monday, July 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland: Illex stocks hit the top for third year in a row

  

  AS the saying goes, you can sometimes have too much of a good thing. High catches of illex taken in the Southwest Atlantic in the last two years flooded the world market and caused a significant drop in squid prices. Together with rocketing fuel costs many fishing companies have struggled to make their fishing profitable.

• Saturday, July 12th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  PM Brown urged to discuss Falklands issues with Kirchner

  A FOREIGN Affairs Select Committee has urged the Prime Minister to pin down the Argentine president about concerns relating to the Falklands when the visit by President Kirchner, which was cancelled earlier this year, is rearranged.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands “Dumbarton Castle” plaque donated to the Burgh

  The donation of an eight-foot name plaque from Fisheries Patrol HMS Dumbarton Castle to the Burgh has been described as a “great honor”, according to the Dumbarton Reporter in an article written by Andrew Gibson.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Magallanes: dispute over the origin of salmon disease

  Although it is now certain that at least one salmon farm in southern Chile's Magallanes (Region XII) has tested positive for Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA), what is not yet clear is how the debilitating disease made it to Chile's southernmost region.

• Sunday, July 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uribe on the crest of the wave considering a third mandate

  

  An overwhelming majority of Colombians, 77%, support a second reelection of President Alvaro Uribe following the rescue of fifteen hostages last Wednesday including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, according to a public opinion poll released by the top circulation magazine Semana.

• Friday, July 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  June inflation in Chile is the highest in 17 years: 1.5%

  Chile's Consumer Prices Index rose 1.5% in June accumulating 4.3% in the first half of the year according to the latest release from the country's Statistics Office. This is the highest June inflation since June 1991 (1.8%) and the highest monthly since October 1993 (2.6%).