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Saturday, July 5, 2008 Saturday, July 5, 2008
Argentine Congress faces crucial vote on grain export tax Sao Paulo stock market lost foreign investors in June
With considerable delay Argentina’s Lower House began late Friday evening to debate the controversial sliding export taxes on grains and oilseeds which ... Brazilian stocks partly recovered (0.16%) on Friday after their worst week in nearly a year with the Sao Paulo Bovespa index falling 7.7%, -below the 60.000 ...
Saturday, July 5, 2008 Saturday, July 5, 2008
Fidel condemns Colombian guerrilla over kidnappings Petrobras sets during June new oil production record
Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro celebrated the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and fourteen other hostages and criticized the Colombian FARC guerrillas ... Brazil’s government managed oil and gas corporation Petrobras set a new monthly oil production record in Brazil in June: 1,867,000 barrels per day (bpd). ...
Saturday, July 5, 2008 Friday, July 4, 2008
China agrees to pay double for BHP Billiton iron ore Record sale of cars and farm machinery in booming Brazil
Mining giant BHP Billiton has reached a deal with China's largest steelmaker to almost double iron ore prices. Under the agreement, covering contracts for one ... The Brazilian automobile industry produced and sold a record number of new vehicles in the first half of 2008, with flex-fuel cars leading the surge according ...
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Financial markets can not govern us! Two insights into the “new” and the “old” Argentina
Appealing to common sense, experience and ethics nine distinguished European political personalities and former elected officials have sent a letter to the ... In early April, The Guardian published a piece by Latinamerican expert Richard Gott, on the new Argentina and its architects, as the title ...
Friday, July 4, 2008 Friday, July 4, 2008
China/Taiwan regular direct flights break 60 year ban June inflation in Chile is the highest in 17 years: 1.5%
The first regular, direct flight from mainland China to Taiwan for nearly 60 years landed on Friday at the capital Taipei's airport. China's top official on ... Chile’s Consumer Prices Index rose 1.5% in June accumulating 4.3% in the first half of the year according to the latest release from the country’s ...
Friday, July 4, 2008 Friday, July 4, 2008
Brazil begins process to renew entire fleet of fighter jets Seoul government cornered by US beef triggered crisis
Brazil launched the process to buy at least 36 fighter jets as part of a broader plan to modernize its Air Force and in keeping with neighbors that are also in ... South Korea's president called for an end to an on going dispute over United States beef imports, saying it was time for the nation to concentrate on overcoming ...
Friday, July 4, 2008 Friday, July 4, 2008
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update Evacuation as Chile's Llaima volcano spews lava
Headlines: Bay begins her work; ‘Government cannot subsidise BAS’; Close eye kept on MoD range; Scheme for school leavers; Wind farm set to ... Chile's Llaima volcano, one of South America's most active, is spewing lava in southern Chile, the government said on Tuesday, ordering an evacuation just two ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Thursday, July 3, 2008
In spite of farmers, Cristina K manages to iron double chins Argentina unable to complete EU beef Hilton quota
In spite of adversity Argentine President Cristina Kirchner de Kirchner has time to prop her facial image in line with her hair dressing and ample wardrobe. ... For the first time in almost thirty years Argentina was unable to fulfill its high priced special cuts Hilton quota of beef for the European Union in the fiscal ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Thursday, July 3, 2008
Food security in poor nations keeps degrading says FAO Rockhopper reports losses but insists in 2009 drilling
Soaring food prices have pushed 50 million more people to go hungry, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday, ... Oil and gas explorer Rockhopper Exploration Plc. reported a wider full-year pretax loss and said its target is to drill between two and four wells on its ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Thursday, July 3, 2008
Argentina exports 4.124 tons of ovine meat in five months UK Defence £ 3 billion contracts for two new aircraft carriers
During the first five months of 2008, lamb and mutton exports from Argentina totaled 4.124 tons equivalent to 15.1 million US dollars which represents a 5% ... Britain’s Ministry of Defence signed this week contracts to build two future aircraft carriers, to be named HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince Of Wales, ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Thursday, July 3, 2008
Euro zone hikes basic rate to 4.25%; oil at new record Benchmark sentence for high ranking Pinochet era officer
The European Central Bank hiked on Thursday its key rate 25 points to 4.25%. This is the first rise in a year and is geared to contain food and fuel prices that ... A Chilean judge sentenced the former secret intelligence chief for General Augusto Pinochet to two life terms for the 1974 murder of Carlos Prat, former ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Forbes ranks Chile as tops in Latam in business Betancourt praises Colombian Army and President Uribe
Forbes Magazine this week ranked Chile as the best Latin America country for doing business. Chile ranked 19th among all the world’s countries, up nine ... Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt said she was grateful to the Colombian Army and President Alvaro Uribe for her liberation on Wednesday together ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Colombia visiting McCain was informed of rescue operation Dow Jones down 20% from Oct. peak; GM lowest since 1954
In a bid to boost his foreign policy credentials United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain began in Colombia a three-day visit to Latin ... The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than 20% below its October 2007 peak on Wednesday, meaning it is officially a bear market. The blue-chip index fell ...
   
 
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