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Cartagena: Falklands/Malvinas Argentina vs Britain oil conflict US stays neutral

posted Apr 16, 2012 12:30 AM by Solar Life   [ updated Apr 16, 2012 1:05 AM ]

Summit of the Americas in Cartagena Colombia
                            ceosummitoftheamericas.com

April-16-2012

Obama confirms at the summit US neutrality on the Falklands/Malvinas question

Argentina Cristina Fernandez

The US will remain on the sidelines in the dispute between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands sovereignty, said President Barack Obama on Sunday at the conclusion of the Summit of the Americas in Colombia.

“We’re going to remain neutral,” Obama said at a news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. “This is not something that we typically intervene in”.

“We have good relations with Argentina and Britain and we hope they are capable of continuing the dialogue on the issue”, added Obama who on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with President Cristina Fernandez.

However President Santos underlined the strong support for the Argentine position from the majority of the 31 leaders who attended the summit. “The great majority of countries called on both sides for a peaceful resolution of the controversy”.

But Santos also admitted that the Falklands/Malvinas and Cuban issues were the most intransigent impeding a consensus and therefore no final declaration from the summit.


source: en.mercopress.com


US, Canada avoided Cuba at Cartagena summit

Carthagène, 14 avril, 


Les Etats-Unis et le Canada ont fait échouer une initiative de dernière minute d’inviter Cuba au VIe Sommet des Amériques dans la ville colombienne de Carthagène des Indes .

source: radiohc.cu

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Australia top solar: Moree Solar Farm PV & Chinchilla CSP GAS hybrid plant

posted Mar 1, 2012 9:47 AM by Solar Life   [ updated Mar 1, 2012 9:56 AM ]


Australia Solar Flagship program

The Federal Government has announced the 

recipients for funding from Round 1 of the 

Solar Flagships Program

Moree Solar Farm - PV
in NSW’s Central Tablelands is a 150MW photovoltaic installation, 

Chinchilla, Queensland CSP Gas Hybrid

and the Solar Dawn consortium is planning to build a 250MW 

hybrid gas/concentrating solar power plant in Chinchilla, Queensland.

400 MW

Both projects are pending final approvals, but if cleared will be a welcome addition to Australia’s growing solar power portfolio. With a combined expected capacity of 400MW (enough to power 100,000 homes), the approval of these plants will mark the first time in Australian history that renewable solar power has been designed to be large and reliable enough to rival coal as a source of baseload power. Construction of these plants will be more expensive than the construction of a coal-fired plant of similar size, but all (or most) of the energy generated will be carbon emission-free.


source: solarchoice.net.au

2012 dramatic year of economic change - private Pizzeria ...Cuba

posted Dec 25, 2011 4:27 AM by Solar Life   [ updated Dec 25, 2011 5:21 AM ]

Cuba wraps up dramatic year of economic change


HAVANA - Cuba free-market reforms
A year at the vanguard of Cuba's economic revival has not brought Julio Cesar Hidalgo riches. The fledgling pizzeria owner has had his good months, but the restaurant he opened with his girlfriend often runs at a loss.
Today, he is his own boss, a taxpayer, employer and entrepreneur.

President Raul Castro
A year that President Raul Castro described as make or break for the revolution is ending after a dramatic flurry of once-unthinkable reforms that are transforming economic and social life.

Private business owners $19 monthly tax payments to high
have complained about the high taxes they must pay, the lack of raw materials and the fact they are suddenly surrounded by competitors. Because most entrepreneurs don't have the capital to start innovative businesses, many have opened cafeterias, nail parlors, small roadside kiosks and the like.

Cuba middle class
"In Cuba, the challenge is sustaining the middle class, not creating one," Romeu said.





source: cbsnews.com

CELAC a new Bloc is born 550 million people Latinoamericanos y Caribeños

posted Dec 4, 2011 9:44 AM by Solar Life   [ updated Dec 4, 2011 9:53 AM ]

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States - Spanish: Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, CELAC
Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC)

CARACAS, Venezuela, dic. 2, 2011

 Líderes de América Latina y el Caribe inauguran este viernes una cumbre para establecer formalmente un nuevo bloque regional sin Estados Unidos ni Canadá, que los presidentes Hugo Chávez de Venezuela y Rafael Correa de Ecuador esperan que sustituya eventualmente a la OEA, en pos del sueño de unidad del prócer Simón Bolívar.

La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) 

se espera quede constituida luego de dos días de revisión de sus estatutos por sus 33 países miembros. El organismo nace con el objetivo de proyectar la región ante el mundo y de convertirse en un mecanismo más representativo y efectivo para la resolución de conflictos, en la promoción del desarrollo económico y ayude a combatir los embates de la pobreza

Rousseff Brasil:

El gobierno brasileño esta particularmente interesado en diseñar una estrategia común para enfrentar el impacto de la crisis financiera global. Se espera que Brasil asuma un papel relevante en el bloque.

América Latina y el Caribe como región experimentó un crecimiento económico de más de 5% el año pasado, y sus líderes están buscando formas de fortalecer aún más sus economías al fomentar las industrias locales y reducir las importaciones de fuera de la región.

"Nosotros podemos construir una integración que sea realmente productiva y que nos lleve al crecimiento de nuestras economías, y también que nos lleve a un proceso que no sea la explotación de un país por otro", dijo Rousseff en Caracas.

source: noticierostelevisa.esmas.com

Latin American leaders officially sign CELAC into effect as new bloc

CARACAS, Venezuela Dec. 3 2011


Leaders from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on Saturday approved 22 documents, officially signing into effect the formation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as the new leading regional bloc.

CELAC 600m people (excluding US-Canada)

With the creation of CELAC, which includes all countries in the Americas except the United States and Canada, Latin American leaders want to establish a forum similar to that of the Organization of American States, but without the political influence of U.S. foreign policy.

Pinera

called on member countries to join forces and make quality education possible for CELAC countries' 600 million people, fight against poverty and multiply investments in science and technology.

source: news.xinhuanet.com

SOUTH: Brazil starts Africa initiative why old world struggles

posted Nov 17, 2011 8:49 AM by Solar Life


 Brazil 
is launching a top-level drive to expand its economic ties with Africa, a sign of how crises in the rich world are pushing faster-growing emerging economies to trade and invest among themselves.

Brazil's overall trade with Africa has quadrupled since 2002 
to $20.6 billion last year, compared to its $82 billion trade with the European Union

President Dilma Rousseff
The new initiative, ordered by President Dilma Rousseff after her three-country trip to Africa last month, comes as nervousness grows in Brazil over the impact in the coming months of Europe's debt crisis and lurch toward recession.

6% growth Africa more than Asia

in contrast, the eight most promising emerging economies in sub-Saharan Africa, not including South Africa, have grown by an average of 6.6 percent per year over the past decade, according to Deutsche Bank. That is about the same rate as the BRIC group of big emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and China and faster than emerging Asian economies.

"Africa Group"
Rousseff ordered the creation of an "Africa Group" this month led by her trade and industry minister, Fernando Pimentel

Mining Agriculture
Africa taps Brazilian firms' expertise in mining, oil exploration and tropical agriculture.

BRAZIL'S TRUMP CARD - BEING NICE
Chinese firms have been accused of flouting worker safety laws in some African nations and have also been criticized for importing Chinese workers rather than hiring locally.
"Brazilian companies have a good image in Africa

Brazil's shared Portuguese language with countries like Angola and Mozambique

Embrapa, Brazil's agriculture research agency
has operations in four African countries where it is transferring its technology and expertise in raising crop yields that helped turn Brazil into a tropical farming powerhouse.


source: reuters.com

Ex-general Otto Perez Molina wins Guatemala elections

posted Nov 6, 2011 11:33 PM by Solar Life



Ex-general Otto Perez Molina 

wins Guatemala's presidential run-off, becoming the first former soldier to lead the country since the 1990s. Mr Perez Molina will become the first former military figure to rule since the civil war ended in the 1990s. Both candidates had promised to fight violent crime and the presence of Mexican drug gangs in the country.Guatemala is a key transit point for drugs from South America to the US.

source: bbc.co.uk

Nicaragua Daniel Ortega won 3rd term- réélu pour 3e mandat

posted Nov 6, 2011 11:29 PM by Solar Life


Nicaragua elections: Daniel Ortega 

for third term in power

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, won a third term in power after heavy social spending won him strong support among the country's poor in national elections.

He has helped the poor. 

Mr Ortega has overseen a period of economic progress in his five years in power, backed by financial aid from his socialist ally in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez.

A former commander of the Sandinista rebel army that won power in a 1979 revolution and a Cold War adversary of the United States, Mr Ortega has solidified his hold on the Central American country with programs to improve health and education, microcredits and gifts of livestock.

info page: telegraph.co.uk


Compressed Air motorcycle 02-Pursuit from Australia

posted Nov 4, 2011 6:07 AM by Solar Life   [ updated Nov 4, 2011 6:29 AM ]

02 Pursuit motorcycle runs on compressed air




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Neil Larkins - November 2, 2011

The news here isn't "air vehicle."

It's the engine design. The DiPietro rotary-air is in it's 5th or 6th generation.It has been well demonstrated. It works. Power to weight ratio has increased with each development iteration. They are testing it now in a food market in Melbourne ... powering carts and forklifts & getting the exhaust fumes out of the building.If it pencils out in that environment - if they can prove endurance, performance and maintenance - it is suddenly an exciting product for development or licensing or whatever.


South America Solar fast growing

posted Nov 1, 2011 10:19 AM by Solar Life

Sequel Power Buenos Aires and Santiago, Chile.

Latin America set on solar energy growth


The U.S. Tegal Corp. announced that Sequel Power, 
its portfolio company dedicated to the development and operation of large-scale photovoltaic-based solar utility projects, opened offices in Buenos Aires, and Santiago, Chile.

Sequel Power is working on large-scale photovoltaic-based solar utilities projects in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador.

Onyx Service and Solutions, Inc., 
is also active in Latin America. Onyx President Malcolm Burleson said he secured two executed Letters of Intent in Peru for the distribution of solar panels and related products.

JinkoSolar China
is active in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile and is in talks in all those countries to set up new projects.

source: upi.com

Argentine President Christina Fernandez Kirchner won almost 54 percent of votes

posted Oct 24, 2011 1:29 AM by Solar Life


Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner 

vowed to maintain policies that reduced poverty while being blamed by investors for fueling inflation of more than 20 percent after winning a landslide re-election.

“You can count on me to extend a political project that improved the lives of 40 million Argentines,” Fernandez, 58, told supporters celebrating her victory for a second four-year term in downtown Buenos Aires yesterday.

source: businessweek.com



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