Politics

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:52 UTC

  France best positioned for Brazil’s Air Force 4.5 billion USD contract

  

  US defence contractor Boeing Co is prepared to have Brazilian companies supply a “big portion” of components for its Super Hornet jetfighter, creating as many as 5.000 local jobs, to sell 36 of the warplanes to Brazil. The pledge comes as Boeing manoeuvres against competitors France’s Dassault Aviation and Sweden’s Saab AB.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Falklands’ war air battles marks record rating in Argentina

  

  History Channel established a new record audience rating in Argentina with the June release of “1982: Malvinas, the war from the air”, an original production from the channel which chronicles the clash of the Argentine Air Force with the British Task Force sent to recover the Islands.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:33 UTC

  Mercosur is an “empty architecture” with rhetoric support

  

  Mercosur can’t find its social and political dimension, political parties don’t discuss the issue and as it stands it is an empty architecture, and sentenced, according to former Argentine vice-president Carlos Alvarez. He also warned about possible changes in regional agreements as Brazil becomes a full player in world politics.

• Sunday, July 12th 2009 - 17:42 UTC

  New York Philharmonic will play in Havana next October

  

  The head of the New York Philharmonic met with Cuban officials and toured facilities in Havana on Saturday ahead of an October visit to the Castro brothers’ regime by the renowned orchestra.

• Sunday, July 12th 2009 - 17:40 UTC

  New cabinet in Peru must restore “confidence and optimism”

  

  Peruvian President Alan Garcia appointed Saturday Congress President Javier Velasquez as cabinet chief and shuffled his cabinet a month after protests against logging and oil concessions turned deadly.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 18:07 UTC

  Paraguay plans to open trade office in Shanghai

  

  A Paraguayan delegation of government officials and private sector representatives will be travelling to China in the near future to begin conversations for the formal establishment of trade relations with Beijing, announced the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Lacognata.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 15:35 UTC

  Mercosur summit confirmed July 23/24; strong claim from Paraguay expected

  

  The Mercosur summit has been confirmed for next July 23/24 with at least ten presidents scheduled to participate in the event that will be hosted by Paraguay. During the summit Paraguay will hand the Mercosur rotating chair to Uruguay for the next six months.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 15:31 UTC

  Rescue of gold cargo on South Atlantic seabed begins this week

  

  The rescue and recovery of 9.6 tons of gold and silver on the sea bed of the South Atlantic is scheduled to begin next week with the arrival of Sailor-C, a Vanuatu flagged vessel specifically designed for this kind of operations.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 15:23 UTC

  Brazil could restrict credit to Argentina in retaliation for trade barriers

  

  The Brazilian government is looking at restricting credit lines to Argentina in retaliation for its neighbor's efforts to stall local imports, reported on Friday the daily O Estado de S. Paulo.

• Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:57 UTC

  The Latin American Dream

  

  Britain’s Foreign Office Minister, Chris Bryant, attended an event at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and delivered a speech on “Latin America – realising the dream”. The event and speech focused on Latin America's role in the world and how the EU and Latin America need to work together on global issues such as climate change and the international financial crisis.