Politics

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: optimism about identification of the unknown Argentine soldiers

  

  An Argentine delegation involved in human rights that in early May visited the Falkland Islands is optimistic about the possibility of advancing in the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried as unknown in unmarked graves at the Darwin cemetery.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:30 UTC

  Venezuelan overture to the US: “time to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level”

  

  Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties. Foreign minister Elias Jaua said on Televen Sunday program that “we are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States”.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:27 UTC

  Massive money easing in rich countries making Latam currencies too strong

  

  Currency strength due to stimulus measures in the developed world is currently Latin America's Achilles' heel, though the region's macroeconomic management is a bright spot, the head of the United Nations' body for the region said on Monday.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:25 UTC

  OAS General Assembly will hold major debate on the drug problem in the Americas

  

  Secretary General José Miguel Insulza presented on Monday the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas to the members of the OAS Permanent Council, in a special meeting of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) in which he expressed his hope that the document is understood “not as a conclusion, but only as the beginning of a long awaited debate.”

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Brazil main opposition party elects a new leader and 2014 presidential hopeful

  

  Brazilian opposition unified over the weekend behind Aecio Neves who was elected by a landslide president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. His naming opens the way for his candidacy to the 2014 presidential election, when President Dilma Rousseff will be bidding for another four years.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Falklands MPA has the minimum force necessary to prevent a repeat of 1982 invasion

  

  The UK military base in the Falkland Islands has the “minimum necessary force to prevent a repeat of the illegal invasion such as that of 1982” committed by Argentina said Foreign Office Minister of State for Latinamerican affairs Hugo Swire during an interview with the Argentine news agency, Diarios y Noticias. (*)

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 00:29 UTC

  Gibraltar ‘will never be Spanish’ and will enjoy full self-government says Chief Minister Picardo

  

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has told German readers of Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung that he is firmly convinced that Gibraltar will never be Spanish because today’s Europe is about the people rather than the states.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 22:22 UTC

  Brazil opens ports to private investment hoping to ease bottlenecks strangling exports growth

  

  Brazil’s Congress approved legislation that opens up state-owned ports to private investment and lifts restrictions on the building of private ports in a bid to eliminate serious bottlenecks strangling the country’s export growth. The Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries praised the approval of the bill and anticipate investment of 25bn dollars.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:56 UTC

  Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy

  

  Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply the Antarctic bases and stations.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:47 UTC

  Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements

  

  Brazil’s main financial newspaper Valor Economico revealed that the recent summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff from Argentina and Brazil was far from polite and enlightening, rather the contrary with “strong disagreements in the fields of trade and investment” shaking the foundations of Mercosur.