Politics

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Brazil ready to boost trade with Argentina but demands “compromise” on lowering barriers

  

  The potential to treble imports from Argentina in a few years was underlined by Brazilian manufacturers but there must be a “compromise of reciprocity” to lower trade barriers since currently “we known they are higher on the Argentine side”.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 08:07 UTC

  Argentina, the outcast

  

  By Luis Felipe Lampreia (*) - The following piece is a picture of recent events in Argentina from a historic reference and enumerates the obstacles the country faces in developing its own hydrocarbons following the seizure of YPF from Spain’s Repsol

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 07:57 UTC

  Mexico’s presidential TV debate overshadowed by stunning Argentine model in the studio

  

  Mexico presidential candidates’ positions and policies during Sunday’s televised debate were overshadowed by the low-cut dress worn by an Argentine model that was present as an assistant for scarce 25 seconds.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 07:39 UTC

  Argentina slaps huge fine on Spanish mobile phone service

  

  Argentina has fined Telefonica 43 million dollars for a mobile phone service interruption last month, which threatens to further exacerbate tensions between the two countries.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 02:32 UTC

  Malvinas/Olympic ad Argentine hockey player left out of Games warm-up in Malaysia

  

  The Argentine hockey player filmed training on the Falkland Islands in a controversial video that caused a furor in Britain last week has been dropped from Argentina’s final Olympic Games warm-up event.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 17:46 UTC

  Argentine Olympic Committee releases watered down statement on Malvinas spot

  

  The Argentine Olympic Committee has responded for the first time to an advertisement on state-run TV that links a dispute with Britain about the Falklands/Malvinas Islands to the London Games.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 17:17 UTC

  Brazil’s Rousseff sees in Hollande an ally to counter Merkel’s austerity policies

  

  Dilma Rousseff is interested in having French elected-president Francois Holland make an official visit to Brasilia to talk about the current world situation since the Brazilian leader believes they both share positions regarding the global crisis and austerity policies.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 17:03 UTC

  New records for Chilean president Piñera: approval 26%; disapproval 66%

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has reached his lowest level of citizen approval since he came to office in 2010, according to the latest Adimark poll released on Monday.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  Peru and Colombian presidents busy looking for trade and investments in Asia

  

  Two South American presidents accompanied by several ministers and business delegations will be spending this week in Asia promoting trade and investment and looking to consolidate links with the world’s second largest economy and the fastest growing continent.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 06:25 UTC

  Falklands’ trade mission in Aberdeen for investments and know-how to develop its oil industry

  

  The largest trade mission to visit Britain from the Falkland Islands for almost 20 years will arrive in Aberdeen on Tuesday to explore the opportunities arising from the Islands’ fledgling oil and gas industry, reports The Scotsman.