Politics

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 20:15 UTC

  Chilean registered marriages almost identical to number of divorces

  

  Marriage numbers have fallen 50% in Chile during the past 20 years, according to data made public last week by the Civil Statistical Registry.

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 20:13 UTC

  FOGL/BHP Billiton sign deal to drill several wells in East Falklands basin

  

  Falkland Oil and Gas, FOGL announced Monday it signed a deal will Desire Petroleum to use the “Ocean Guardian” rig to drill the first ever exploration well in the East Falklands Basin on the Toroa prospect, which is expected to happen during the first half of 2010.

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  Chile announce ambitious Antarctica Strategic Plan

  

  Chile’s Public Works Ministry announced the launching of five new projects in Antarctica.

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 06:19 UTC

  Argentine government lacks Senate support to tap Central bank reserves

  

  Argentina’s government lacks the support needed in the Senate to approve President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s plan to tap 6.6 billion US dollars in Central Bank reserves to pay sovereign debt due this year, ruling party Senator Miguel Pichetto admitted on Sunday.

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 06:02 UTC

  Wall Street helped Greece to hide mounting debts, claims The New York Times

  

  Wall Street tactics have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the Euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts, The New York Times reported Sunday.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 07:54 UTC

  Brazil and Chile’s president elect support Insulza as OAS chief

  

  Brazil’s Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim said that The Washington Post criticisms of the Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza are “totally without foundation” and reiterated Brazil’s support for his re-election next month.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  On Sunday arrives the Year of the Tiger when “fortune favours the brave”

  

  Sunday is widely dubbed “Double Happiness” day in the Chinese world -- a rare occasion when the New Year festival, launching the Year of the Tiger, coincides with Valentine's Day.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 07:20 UTC

  Argentine Jan inflation: 1% for the government, double for consultants

  

  Consumer prices in Argentina recorded a 1% increase in January, according to the Indec national statistics bureau. In comparison to the same month last year, inflation reached 8.2%, a figure which is highly criticized by researchers and specialists.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 03:13 UTC

  Argentina plans “insecurity” for Falklands oil exploration and is tracking the rig

  

  The Argentine government is looking for mechanisms to sanction all those vessels that somehow have participated in the Falkland Islands oil exploration logistics. Operations are set to begin next week with the arrival of the “Ocean Guardian” oil rig.

• Friday, February 12th 2010 - 04:41 UTC

  Argentina will take the Falklands’ oil drilling case to United Nations

  

  Argentina will be taking the case of oil exploration in Falkland Islands waters by private companies licensed by the Islands government to the United Nations, but not to the International Court of The Hague as had been suggested since the London/Buenos Aires dispute resumed a few weeks ago.