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Mercosur in open conflict ahead of summit showdown

Yesterdat 14:03 President Alberto Fernández joins forces with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Paraguay’s Mario Abdo Benítez to formally complain over Uruguay’s move to sign trade deals without approval from partners; Next week’s Mercosur summit will be "entertaining," jokes Luis Lacalle Pou, with regional trade bloc set for showdown.

Grounded plane at Ezeiza

Final few of grounded plane’s crew end fourth-month stopover in Argentina

20-10-2022 01:04 Five remaining crew members – three Iranian, two Venezuelan – of the Emtrasur cargo plane detained at Ezeiza International Airport since June given permission to depart by judge.

Bloomberg

Climate Disasters in Latin America Threaten Global Food Security

22-07-2022 16:23 Latin American food production in 2021 was impacted by climate change, and this trend will continue, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. Droughts and floods have led to thousands suffering from food insecurity and have had global impact.

Grounded plane mystery

Paraguay president: Crew member of grounded plane ‘changed face’ in Cuba

01-07-2022 15:21 Mario Abdo Benítez claims that “large number” of Venezuelan-Iranian crew of plane grounded at Ezeiza International Airport have “links to international terrorism.”

Drug Trafficking

Paraguay's slow slide into a state held hostage to drug-trafficking

02-06-2022 13:03 The murders of two Paraguayan officials in as many weeks have sent a disturbing signal that parts of the South American country are falling under the influence — and bullets — of organised crime and drug-traffickers.

ECONOMY & AGRICULTURE

Why South America's breadbasket isn't the answer to global wheat crisis

30-05-2022 16:05 Amid a growing food crisis provoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many have looked to South America's 'breadbasket' as a possible solution. Experts, however, are warning that may not be the case.

Bloomberg

Soybeans soar to nine-year high with South America supply in doubt

23-02-2022 16:21 Soybeans climbed to a nine-year high as dimming prospects for South American harvests threaten global supplies.

BLOOMBERG

Cannabis price drop creates opportunity for Paraguay

03-01-2022 12:36 As cannabis starts to behave more like an agricultural commodity, there’s a race to find the best growing climate at the lowest cost. In South America, a new candidate is emerging: Paraguay.

Mercosur summit

Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay agree to review Mercosur tariffs

17-12-2021 18:08 Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay agree to continue “modernisation” of bloc and review common external tariff at virtual summit – but without Uruguay's agreement.

Mercosur tensions

Argentina, Paraguay agree to review Mercosur's common external tariff

15-10-2021 20:33 Argentina and Paraguay agree to review Mercosur’s Common External Tariff – an issue that has sparked tensions within the trade bloc.

TRADE BLOC TENSIONS

Argentina, Brazil agree to reduce Mercosur's Common External Tariff

08-10-2021 19:43 Brazil and Argentina agree to reduce Mercosur's common external tariff by 10% "on a very broad universe of products."

FOOTBALL

Home crowd awaits for unbeaten Argentina

08-10-2021 00:03 After Italy's defeat to Spain on Wednesday the Albiceleste became the national team with the longest unbeaten record in the world, having last gone down at the 2019 Copa América to Brazil.

by Dan Edwards

International football

Paraguay hold Argentina in World Cup qualifier stalemate

07-10-2021 23:49 Single point maintain Albiceleste's unbeaten run in qualifying and solidifies their second place in the single qualifying table behind runaway leaders Brazil, who saw off a scare against Venezuela in Caracas.

MERCOSUR TENSIONS

Brazil’s Guedes lets rip at Argentina, vows to ‘modernise’ Mercosur

01-10-2021 01:37 Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes says Argentina should "withdraw" from the Mercosur if President Alberto Fernández's government feels "uncomfortable" with Brasilia's plans to "modernise" the South American trade bloc.

MERCOSUR TENSIONS

Lacalle Pou: Uruguay and China in talks over bilateral free-trade deal

08-09-2021 16:28 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou says his government is “in a hurry” to close a FTA with China – a development that’s sure to increase tensions with other Mercosur member states.

ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT

Paraná river at historic low: natural cycle or climate change?

04-09-2021 10:52 South America's second-longest river has dropped to its lowest level since the 1940s, baffling experts and leaving environmentalists concerned.

BLOOMBERG

Paraguay seeks to wind down stimulus as economy bounces back

27-08-2021 12:27 Paraguay will continue to dial back pandemic stimulus next year as a fast growing economy cushions austerity measures that have proved unpopular in other South American countries.

PRESIDENTIAL MEETING

President Fernández to host Lacalle Pou amid Mercosur tensions

12-08-2021 14:39 Alberto Fernández will host Luis Lacalle Pou at the Olivos presidential residence on Friday, with tensions over Mercosur's future likely to be discussed.

Mercosur in crisis

Felipe Solá: Brazil's 'hostile attitude has killed debate within Mercosur'

22-07-2021 22:01 Argentina’s foreign minister slams Brazilian government during visit to Rio to mark 30th anniversary of nuclear accord between two nations.

MERCOSUR IN DISARRAY

Cracks emerge in Mercosur trade bloc as Uruguay looks to go it alone

09-07-2021 03:18 Deep cracks emerge in Mercosur trade bloc, as Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou says he wants to negotiate trade deals without approval from other member nations.

MERCOSUR IN DISARRAY

Mercosur’s glitch-plagued summit puts spotlight on trade divide

09-07-2021 02:58 Luis Lacalle Pou's new trade strategy unable to win broad support among bloc's members. Parallel initiative backed by Brazil and Uruguay to reduce Mercosur's common external tariff also fails to advance.

EDITORIAL

Sold down the river?

04-07-2021 00:13 State control over the Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay waterway has been decreed for the next year at least, but the temporary has the nasty habit of becoming permanent in Argentina.

Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay

Government hands control of Paraná-Paraguay waterway to port agency

03-07-2021 00:21 Alberto Fernández administration nationalises management of the Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay waterway by decree for 12 months.

TRAGEDY IN MIAMI

Florida building collapse reverberates across Latin America

25-06-2021 23:43 Several Latin Americans, some who reportedly travelled to get vaccinated, are among the missing after an apartment building collapsed in the Miami area earlier this week.

Copa América

Argentina, Chile through to Copa América quarter-finals

22-06-2021 10:31 Albiceleste secures second win in three group matches, beating Paraguay 1-0, with Alejandro 'Papu' Gómez scoring the sole goal of a lacklustre match in Brasilia in the ninth minute.

Copa América

Scaloni says Argentina ready for 'uncomfortable' clash with Paraguay

21-06-2021 11:31 Argentina face Paraguay at the Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha at 9pm on Monday in Group A of the Copa América 2021.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Mexico finally ships first locally made AstraZeneca shots to Latin America

15-06-2021 09:45 Mexico shipped more than a million AstraZeneca vaccines to Argentina, Belize, Bolivia and Paraguay over the weekend in the first batch of locally-produced shots.

Global pandemic

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay besieged by Covid

29-05-2021 10:48 Neither Uruguay’s permissive policies nor Argentina’s lengthy quarantines have prevented the nations from heading the Covid-19 mortality rates, along with their neighbour Paraguay.

IN-DEPTH: MERCOSUR

Mercosur’s future up for debate at key meeting

01-05-2021 00:21 Member nations agree to debate ‘flexibilisation’ of bloc’s rules at key meeting in May. Uruguay continues to push for liberalisation of tariffs, rules on free-trade deals.

Bloomberg

Waterways are drying up in key South American crop-shipping hubs

27-04-2021 12:27 The South American drought that’s helping push corn and soybean prices to multiyear highs isn’t just threatening crops, but also the ability to haul them on waterways that are drying up.

MERCOSUR BLOC

Uruguay presents plan to make Mercosur trade talks more flexible

26-04-2021 15:19 According to the draft document released by the Foreign Ministry in Montevideo, the proposal would allow member states, under some conditions, to initiate negotiations "either as a group or individually."

MERCOSUR AT 30

Highlights (and low points): Mercosur turns 30

27-03-2021 08:49 A free-trade agreement with the European Union which has yet to be implemented, an imperfect common external tariff, mounted with great difficulty – these factors and others mark the 30-year history of Mercosur, a mosaic of successes and inconclusive challenges.

AND THAT REMINDS ME...

Mercosur’s murky future

27-03-2021 07:27 Mercosur will have problems selling itself to the rest of the world while it cannot sell to itself.

by Michael Soltys

LATIN AMERICA: MERCOSUR SUMMIT

‘We’re not a burden’ – Fernández clashes with Mercosur leaders

27-03-2021 07:11 Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay confront Argentina to demand greater flexibility to negotiate trade agreements during a tense summit of Mercosur leaders commemorating the 30th anniversary of the regional trade bloc’s founding.

MERCOSUR SUMMIT

Trade and Covid-19 vaccines top agenda for Mercosur summit

23-03-2021 13:22 Mercosur’s member nations will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the bloc's founding at a key summit this Friday, with the clear differences between them more than evident.

by Mariano Beldyk

CIVIL UNREST

Paraguay reshuffles cabinet after violent Covid-19 protests

07-03-2021 08:36 Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez announces cabinet reshuffle after violent street protests over the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

International football

CONMEBOL postpones World Cup qualifiers over travel constraints

07-03-2021 08:12 CONMEBOL postponed two rounds of 2022 World Cup qualifiers scheduled later this month because of Covid-19 quarantine rules affecting European-based players and the threat of clubs refusing to release their international stars.

MERCOSUR BLOC

Brazil again pushes for loosening of Mercosur trade deal rules

27-02-2021 08:21 Bolsonaro set to visit Buenos Aires for trade bloc’s next summit; Brazilian foreign minister accuses ‘interest groups’ using the environment as ‘pretext’ to block ratification of EU-Mercosur deal.

ECLAC Projection

UN slashes LatAm economic slowdown projection

16-12-2020 16:06 Executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Alicia Bárcena predicts the region will experience growth of 3.7 percent in 2021.

Mercosur

'Distrust' of Brazil stalls EU-Mercosur trade deal

13-12-2020 19:45 Concerns over Amazon deforestation under Bolsonaro are delaying the ratification of a two-decades long negotiated trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur.

News of paraguay

Mercosur in open conflict ahead of summit showdown

Final few of grounded plane’s crew end fourth-month stopover in Argentina

Climate Disasters in Latin America Threaten Global Food Security

Paraguay president: Crew member of grounded plane ‘changed face’ in Cuba

Paraguay's slow slide into a state held hostage to drug-trafficking

Why South America's breadbasket isn't the answer to global wheat crisis

Soybeans soar to nine-year high with South America supply in doubt

Cannabis price drop creates opportunity for Paraguay

Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay agree to review Mercosur tariffs

Argentina, Paraguay agree to review Mercosur's common external tariff

Argentina, Brazil agree to reduce Mercosur's Common External Tariff

Home crowd awaits for unbeaten Argentina

Paraguay hold Argentina in World Cup qualifier stalemate

Brazil’s Guedes lets rip at Argentina, vows to ‘modernise’ Mercosur

Lacalle Pou: Uruguay and China in talks over bilateral free-trade deal

Paraná river at historic low: natural cycle or climate change?

Paraguay seeks to wind down stimulus as economy bounces back

President Fernández to host Lacalle Pou amid Mercosur tensions

Felipe Solá: Brazil's 'hostile attitude has killed debate within Mercosur'

Cracks emerge in Mercosur trade bloc as Uruguay looks to go it alone

Mercosur’s glitch-plagued summit puts spotlight on trade divide

Sold down the river?

Government hands control of Paraná-Paraguay waterway to port agency

Florida building collapse reverberates across Latin America

Argentina, Chile through to Copa América quarter-finals

Scaloni says Argentina ready for 'uncomfortable' clash with Paraguay

Mexico finally ships first locally made AstraZeneca shots to Latin America

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay besieged by Covid

Mercosur’s future up for debate at key meeting

Waterways are drying up in key South American crop-shipping hubs

Uruguay presents plan to make Mercosur trade talks more flexible

Highlights (and low points): Mercosur turns 30

Mercosur’s murky future

‘We’re not a burden’ – Fernández clashes with Mercosur leaders

Trade and Covid-19 vaccines top agenda for Mercosur summit

Paraguay reshuffles cabinet after violent Covid-19 protests

CONMEBOL postpones World Cup qualifiers over travel constraints

Brazil again pushes for loosening of Mercosur trade deal rules

UN slashes LatAm economic slowdown projection

'Distrust' of Brazil stalls EU-Mercosur trade deal

One person died on an Antarctic cruise due to a giant wave in southern Argentina

Atlético Tucumán midfielder dies after training collapse

Scaloni: ‘If you think Australia will be easy you're wrong’

Julián Álvarez: the 'Spider’ delivers Argentina’s lethal bite

Mercosur in open conflict ahead of summit showdown

Green Card: cómo obtenerla sin tener una oferta laboral o inversión

Cecilia Moreau enfureció contra Juntos por el Cambio: "Soy mujer, no retrasada"

"Dejá de trabajar": García Moritán quiso ver el partido con Ofelia Fernández y no la encontró

Tragedia en un crucero en el sur: ola gigante mató a una turista estadounidense

Video: los groseros gestos de Ritondo a Cecilia Moreau en la sesión de Diputados