Politics

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:19 UTC

  Spain says the Gibraltar dispute is back on the ‘Brussels process” bilateral track

  

  Spain’s new Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Federico Trillo-Figueroa, has claimed that his Foreign Minister, Jose Garcia Margallo, has managed to revive bilateral dialogue with UK over Gibraltar within the Brussels context.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:13 UTC

  Argentine supermarkets must keep records of clients that spend plus 210 dollars

  

  Argentine supermarkets must keep records of sales of plus 1.000 Pesos which must be available to tax inspectors, according to the latest decision from AFIP the tax revenue office. A thousand Pesos at the official rate is equivalent to 210 dollars and in the parallel 140 dollars.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 17:06 UTC

  Argentine foreign currency credit cards included in the strict dollar “clamp”

  

  Credit card companies operating in Argentina have also fallen under the net work of the tax office AFIP, and now must request authorization and approval to purchase US dollars to balance their clients’ accounts.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 15:24 UTC

  Norwegian organization to help with demining in the Chile-Peru border

  

  Chilean and Peruvian authorities meet Friday in Lima with the humanitarian organization Norwegian People’s Aid which will be responsible for the demining of the two countries border area, announced Peruvian Foreign minister Rafael Roncaglio.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 08:45 UTC

  Removed Paraguayan president says he can run again for the Executive office

  

  Former Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo who was removed from office last June following a political impeachment in Congress said he can again be a presidential candidate in the coming April elections.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 08:33 UTC

  Uruguay reacts with silence to repeated Argentine provocations

  

  The Uruguayan government said on Monday there will be no public statements on the latest “situations” with Argentina, and Uruguay will keep to what was agreed at presidential level during the last (31 July) Mercosur extraordinary meeting in Brasilia.

• Monday, August 6th 2012 - 23:24 UTC

  Poor ranking for Uruguay’s main university; Brazil and Chile top of Latam list

  

  Uruguay’s government-financed national university came up in position 79 in the QS academic quality international ranking of the top 100 Latinamerican universities. Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia were far better ranked than Uruguay’s Universidad de la Republica, Udelar, which has caused deep concern among government officials.

• Monday, August 6th 2012 - 22:02 UTC

  Dollar deposits and loans erosion in Argentina as restrictions become stricter

  

  The strict and tightening US dollar purchase restrictions imposed in Argentina were clearly exposed in the banking system dollar deposits and loans during the last week of July when they dropped 3%, having accumulated 43% in the last few weeks, according to official data from the central bank.

• Monday, August 6th 2012 - 21:30 UTC

  Abuse of Chilean indigenous peoples questioned by human rights organizations

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) spoke out against human rights violations in the Araucanía region in south-central Chile on Thursday, calling on the government to investigate the chain of events last week resulting in the injuries of two minors by police bullets.

• Monday, August 6th 2012 - 08:23 UTC

  Mercosur economic performance expected to lag behind Andean countries in 2012

  

  Argentina and Brazil will experience an economic slowdown this year compared to 2011, while Paraguay, punished by drought and an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, will have the worst performance in Latin America, and Peru the best, according to the Argentine consultants Ecolatina