Politics

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 10:12 UTC

  Guyana, US, Peru and Uruguay consent to OAS visits on anti-corruption

  

  The governments of Guyana, the United States, Peru and Uruguay confirmed this week to the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) their consent to receive on site visits as part of the Fifth Round of the Mechanism for Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) of the OAS.

• Saturday, February 7th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  “Democracy in Argentina dented by mysterious murder”, says FT

  

  By John Paul Rathbone (*) - The Financial Times Latin American editor, economist and knowledgeable of Argentina has written a column on the current situation in Argentina and the mystery surrounding the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:36 UTC

  Anti-austerity Podemos party becomes Spain's second party and political option

  

  Spain’s anti-austerity left-wingers Podemos would come in second, ahead of the Socialist party (PSOE), if general elections were held today, a polling firm declared this week, as the party, barely one year old, continues its surge in popularity.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:27 UTC

  Market reacts negatively to Petrobras new CEO: too political and too close to Rousseff

  

  Shares in Brazil's oil giant Petrobras plunged Friday as banking executive Aldemir Bendine, who is seen as too close to President Dilma Rousseff's party, was named the scandal-hit firm's new chief executive.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 21:57 UTC

  Argentine prosecutors confirm 'silence march' marking a month since Nisman's death

  

  Argentine prosecutors and the judicial employees union have officially called for a demonstration on February 18 marking a month since the death of Alberto Nisman who was in charge of investigating the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed 85 people back in 1994.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina warns the US not to interfere with the investigation of Nisman's death

  

  Argentina will not tolerate any United States intervention in the investigation of prosecutor Alberto Nisman's death, and will consider any attempt as an interference in the country's domestic affairs and a violation of Argentine sovereignty.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 07:15 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will write letters to Mia Farrow and Navratilova explaining the Nisman case

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez plans to write actress Mia Farrow and retired tennis star Martina Navratilova to rebut their recent criticism and explain that the scandal engulfing her is a smear campaign, officials said Thursday.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  Brazil ruling party's treasurer questioned on the Petrobras corruption probe

  

  Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they had started questioning João Vaccari Neto, the treasurer of the country's ruling Workers' Party, as a corruption probe focused on state-run oil company Petrobras widened to include political figures.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 03:38 UTC

  Falklands and Trinidad companies sign MoU on oil industry safety services

  

  HHSL Systems Limited of Trinidad and Tobago and Invenio Falkland Islands Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) to mark the start of a relationship that will see the Trinidad-based company help train Invenio representatives in the oil and gas industry.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 03:29 UTC

  British top commander rubbishes any Falklands' “high alert” stories

  

  The Commander of British Forces South Atlantic Islands has rubbished a story in UK The Sunday Express news paper that the Falkland Islands is on a high security alert, and made a brief comment to that respect.