Stories for October 2013

Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 16:25 UTC
More Kirchnerism from less votes; Election result won’t bring change of direction

By Rosendo Fraga (*) - On presidential instructions, the ruling party headed by Acting President Amado Boudou and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli endeavored to transform Sunday night’s midterm election defeat into a result living up to the Victory Front’s name.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 14:09 UTC
Falklands General Election: an important choice for a time of change

The constitution of the Falkland Islands requires that a general election be held every four years to choose the eight members of the Islands’ Legislative Assembly or lower house of government. The next General Election is due to be held on November 7th this year.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC
Brazilian ex-president to be exhumed to determine if he was poisoned by the military regime

The remains of ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed next month to determine whether he was poisoned during his exile in Argentina in the 1970s, Brazil announced on Monday.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:13 UTC
NASA solves the mystery of a “city of lights” in the South Atlantic night: jiggers

When in December 2012, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center and the NASA Earth Observatory released a new map of the Earth as it appears at night they “found something fishy off the coast of Argentina” but now the mystery has been solved. About 300 to 500 kilometers offshore, a city of light appeared in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:10 UTC
Ozone hole slightly smaller than average this year, according to NASA

The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data. The ozone hole is a seasonal phenomenon that starts to form during the Antarctic spring (August and September). The September-October 2013 average size of the hole was 8.1 million square miles (21 million square kilometers).
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.