Stories for October 28th 2013

Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC
“Mother is recovering and improving” said Maximo, son of Cristina Fernandez

Maximo Kirchner, the eldest son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said his mother's medical condition was 'improving' from the cranium surgery to drain a blood clot to which she saw submitted at the beginning of the month, but did not advance any date as to when the head of state will return to her job.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:37 UTC
Brazil's middle and high classes support spontaneous street protests

Brazil's middle and high classes are the most supportive of the street demonstrations and protests that have turned out in the country's main cities since last June, according to the results of a public opinion poll from Datafolha Institute and published in the Sunday edition of Folha de Sao Paulo.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:30 UTC
Cartes and Rousseff to open vital supply power line for Paraguay's capital built with Mercosur funds

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will inaugurate on Tuesday in Paraguay next to his peer Horacio Cartes a high voltage transmission line from the world's largest operational hydroelectric dam Itaipú to metropolitan Asuncion, capital of the landlocked country and which was financed with Mercosur funds.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:24 UTC
Falklands lawmakers: “The full time problem”

Falkland Islands are holding elections next 7 November and eleven candidates will be disputing the five Legislative Assembly seats for Stanly and five the three for the Camp.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:16 UTC
Foreign Office Director Europe is the new British ambassador in Spain

Simon Manley CMG, a member of the UK’s Diplomatic Service since 1990 on Monday 28 October succeeds Giles Paxman as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Spain and non-resident Ambassador to Andorra.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 13:50 UTC
China capitalist reforms: break up state monopolies, land reform, Yuan reserve currency

A Chinese top government think tank has unveiled a detailed road map for a series of far-reaching economic policy changes, in one of the strongest indications yet that the Communist Party intends to stay on the path of reform
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 06:41 UTC
Lack of refining capacity and capped fuel prices hit Petrobras profits

Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer Petrobras said third-quarter profit slid 40%, missing analysts’ estimates, on higher fuel imports and refining losses. Net income dropped to 3.39 billion Reais (1.55bn dollars) from 5.66 billion Reais a year earlier, the company said on Friday in a regulatory statement.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 06:17 UTC
Brazil's current account deficit in 12 months to September stands at 3.6% of GDP

Brazil's current account deficit narrowed in September from the previous month as the foreign trade surplus strengthened, but the improvement was more modest than economists expected. The country posted a current account deficit of 2.629 billion dollars in September, central bank data showed.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 06:01 UTC
Former Colombian president Uribe challenges Santos peace talks with FARC

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's political movement chose economist Oscar Ivan Zuluaga on Saturday as its candidate for presidential elections in May, a vote which represents Uribe's tough stance against leftist guerrillas.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 05:37 UTC
Argentine government retains congress; Massa and Macri confirm 2015 presidential ambition

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's governing bloc held onto control of Congress in Sunday's mid-term elections, but the results also confirmed the emergence of a new group of powerful leaders who with different messages (and non-messages) anticipated on that same night that their target it the presidential chair in 2015.