Mercosur

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Half of Brazilians prefer Temer to remain as president until the 2018 election

  

  Half of Brazilians would like to see interim President Michel Temer stay in the job until the next election in 2018, compared with 32% who desire the return of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, according to a Datafolha poll published this weekend on the Folha de S.Paulo website.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 06:35 UTC

  Rousseff's great mistake was to allow Venezuela into Mercosur, says Brazilian minister

  

  Brazil committed a great mistake on supporting Venezuela to the Mercosur trade agreement back in 2012, and the country must be impeded from taking over the pro-tempore presidency of the group until it complies with all the requisites to be a full member, said Brazil's foreign minister Jose Serra.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 05:25 UTC

  Falklands must be involved in a tripartite dialogue, if Argentina's new policy is to be positive

  

  Argentina's collaboration strategy towards the UK and the Falkland Islands, if it means integrating the Islanders in any discussions relative to their lives and future, which is only of their concern, “this is positive”, according to Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, interviewed by Argentina's official news agency Telam.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community demand investigation of the “local connection” in the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri, together with members of the government and civil organizations attended on Monday in Buenos Aires the main ceremony commemorating the attack on the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in 1994, a crime that so far has gone unpunished.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Uruguay could compete for another pulp mill, if it develops logistics infrastructure

  

  Finland´s UPM pulp conglomerate which already has a plant in Uruguay announced it will commence discussions with the Uruguayan government on the development of logistics infrastructure for a possible mounting of another mill. Discussions will include railroad and roads, which currently are a critical challenge to establish large scale industrial operation in the Uruguayan inland and to connect it to a deep sea port.

• Friday, July 15th 2016 - 06:35 UTC

  Oil company pledges US$ 1.4bn in investments in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Pan American Energy PAE, announced on Thursday investments of 1.4bn dollars in exploration and exploitation of conventional and non conventional hydrocarbons in the Argentine Patagonia provinces of Neuquen, Chubut and Tierra del Fuego.

• Friday, July 15th 2016 - 04:13 UTC

  “We'll be back with Cristina and we'll return to Malvinas”, pledges Maradona in Ushuaia

  

  “We'll be back with Cristina, and we'll be back in Malvinas”, said Argentina's world football ex-star Diego Armando Maradona before leaving Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego where he spent mini vacations.

• Friday, July 15th 2016 - 03:37 UTC

  'Falklands' future promising'', according to Latin American independent report

  

  ”The future of the Falkland Islands looks promising”, according to an independent investigation made by Eduardo Calderon, Daniel Haering and Andres Marroquin from the University Francisco Marroquin (UFM) and unveiled in Guatemala.

• Friday, July 15th 2016 - 03:01 UTC

  'Suspend Falkland/Malvinas sovereignty claim until 2033', when hopefully Argentina becomes attractive

  

  Argentina's former foreign minister Dante Caputo has proposed suspending the sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands until 2033, when the 200th anniversary of the “British occupation” because according to his own words, “the multilateral path no longer yields a result”. And he emphasized, “they will come when the country becomes attractive for the Argentines”.

• Thursday, July 14th 2016 - 07:43 UTC

  Petrobras tenth FPSO vessel in the pre-salt Santos Basin begins production

  

  Petrobras declared the commencement of production from the Cidade de Saquarema floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at the Lula oil field on Jul 8. The offshore oil field is situated in the pre-salt Santos Basin and most importantly, the Cidade de Saquarema unit is the tenth FPSO that is working in the pre-salt region of Brazil.