Stories for April 15th 2013

Monday, April 15th 2013 - 11:36 UTC
Growing frustration and recriminations in Uruguayan cabinet over economic policy

Relations inside the Uruguayan cabinet remain tense with some ministers in non-talking terms even when President Jose Mujica cancelled the Monday full ministerial turnout for three specific areas, security, social affairs and production meetings, which function every two weeks.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 07:12 UTC
Bishop from Thatcher’s birthplace warns about the cost of the funeral, ‘a mistake’

The Bishop of Grantham has spoken out about the scale and cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral. The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, from Baroness Thatcher's birthplace in Lincolnshire, has called the millions likely to be spent a “mistake”.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 06:39 UTC
Capriles won’t accept presidential result until “every vote is recounted, one by one”

Denouncing election irregularities, Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski demanded a recount and said early Monday that he will not recognize the country's presidential results ”until every vote is counted”. His comments came less than an hour after officials said the man former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handpicked to be his successor had won the country's presidential vote.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 06:07 UTC
Bad start for Maduro: Capriles showing debilitates him inside the Bolivarian nomenclature

Following five hours of a long recount process Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced early Monday morning that acting president Nicolas Maduro is the new head of state, having defeated Henrique Capriles by less than a two percentage point difference.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:16 UTC
Controversy over Uruguay’s summer season: supermarket sales were down 15%

The ongoing controversy in Uruguay as to how ‘modest’ or ‘bad’ was this summer’s season has received some facts to support the discussion: supermarket sales in Punta del Este-Maldonado the main resort area along the Atlantic coast contracted 15%, compared to the previous year, while overall in the whole of the country sales were down 2%.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:10 UTC
Mujica envoy to Buenos Aires to try and re-establish ‘normal contacts’ with Cristina Fernandez

Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign minister Roberto Conde is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires this week as part of President Jose Mujica’s administration efforts to rebuild bilateral relations with Argentina following his ‘coarse, jail-slang’ descriptions of president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, which were refuted as ‘unacceptable and denigrating”.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:05 UTC
Bachelet proclaimed pre-candidate promises tax and education reforms

Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet was proclaimed as pre-candidate for the coming presidential elections next November 17 during a political rally in Santiago organized by the Socialists and the Party for Democracy (PPD).
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:01 UTC
Francis names advisory board of cardinals to advise on reforming the Curia

Pope Francis, in his first major decision, set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled central administration.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 02:56 UTC
Bird flu reaches Beijing; first case outside east China which has reported 51 infections

Chinese capital Beijing reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China.