Mercosur

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists in a good relation with Argentina, and insists in meeting with Alberto Fernandez

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he wants a “good relationship” with Argentina and it is up to the foreign ministers of both countries to agree on a meeting with his peer Alberto Fernandez, since the announced summit scheduled for March first in Montevideo, had fallen through.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Incoming Uruguayan foreign minister invited by Argentina's Felipe Solá

  

  This Tuesday the incoming Uruguayan foreign minister Ernesto Talvi will be in Buenos Aires on an invitation from his future peer Felipe Solá, which has been interpreted as the first formal contact between the Kirchnerite government of Alberto Fernandez and that of president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou, who takes office on March first.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Fernandez/Bolsonaro summit in Montevideo in doubt, but both sides willing to meet

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández said he was not sure to attend the inauguration of Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou, next March first, when he was expected to meet his Brazilian peer Jair Bolsonaro. Anyhow Fernandez insisted he was most willing to have an interview with Bolsonaro whenever possible.

• Thursday, February 13th 2020 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolsonaro-Alberto Fernandez summit and “cordial embrace” in Montevideo next March first

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed a meeting with his Argentine peer Alberto Fernandez on March first in Montevideo when Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou takes office. The information was announced by Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá, after meeting president Bolsonaro for fifty minutes at his office in Brasilia.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  “Cristina Fernandez, the most brilliant woman of Argentine history”, praise from Macri's electoral advisor

  

  He was considered the guru of Argentine electoral campaigns, the man who helped Mauricio Macri jump from president of one of the two most popular soccer teams in the country, to twice mayor/governor of the City of Buenos Aires and finally to occupy during four years the Pink House, Casa Rosada, defeating the hegemonic Peronist movement.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:53 UTC

  Mercosur summit in Paraguay will address a review of the external tariff

  

  The upcoming Summit of Heads of State of the Southern Common Market Mercosur, to be held in late June or early July this year, will be held in Encarnacion, capital of Itapúa Department, Paraguay.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Pompeo and Uruguay president elect Lacalle Pou look forward to a closer partnership

  

  United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke on Monday to Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou to congratulate him on his November 24 presidential election victory and to discuss expanding bilateral economic engagement and deeper political cooperation.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  “Fernandez will be received with full honors of head of state”, Bolsonaro

  

  If Argentine president Alberto Fernandez visits Brazil, “he will be received with all the honors of head of State, which he deserves”, according to his peer Jair Bolosonaro, which has been interpreted as an easing of tensions between both leaders following the initial stormy clashes.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil/China finalizing sanitary protocol for soy-meal exports to the Asian giant

  

  Brazilian and Chinese government authorities are finalizing a protocol setting health standards for domestic processors to export soy-meal to the Asian country, André Nassar, president of oilseeds industry group Abiove, announced.

• Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Trump and Abdo meet in Washington to talk about the Mercosur-US trade deal

  

  US President Donald Trump and his Paraguayan colleague Mario Abdo Benítez Friday discussed in Washington a free trade agreement with Mercosur as well as other items of mutual interest, including beef import/exports and the crisis affecting various countries in South America.