Stories for 2015

Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:39 UTC
“Obama would relish the opportunity to visit Cuba and Havana in particular”

President Obama is looking to travel to Cuba’s capitol city of Havana before his tenure ends, White Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Thursday, the same day a Florida bank announced that the State Department has given them permission to make diplomatic transactions between the two nations.
Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:36 UTC
A quarter of Argentine children is poor compared to 10.8% for the whole population

A quarter of children below the age of four in Argentina is poor and almost five in ten babies less than six months have malnutrition problems according to the Center for Implementation of Equity and Growth Public Policies, CIPPEC. The data was provided in the CIPPEC website dedicated to make first infancy a priority through a childcare integral policy.
Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:20 UTC
Lloyd Register Group appointed a new CEO and will take the post next October

Alastair Marsh, current CFO at the Lloyd’s Register Group Ltd. (LR), has been appointed as the successor to CEO Richard Sadler who has decided to step down at the end of 2015. Sadler will pass the CEO role to Marsh on October 1, 2015 and commence a formal handover period until the end of December 2015.
Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:16 UTC
Brazil heading for full recession: economic activity down, unemployment up

Economic activity in Brazil tumbled in the first quarter and unemployment climbed to a near four-year high, adding to signals that a looming recession could worsen as President Dilma Rousseff reins in public spending.
Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:49 UTC
Brazil and Uruguay on an “urgent and necessary” redesign of Mercosur

Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said it was “urgent and necessary” to redesign Mercosur so as to give its members greater 'trade flexibility'. Vazquez made the statements following Thursday meeting with his peer Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia and underlined “it would be naive to admit that Mercosur as it stands currently, is satisfactory”.
Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:42 UTC
Lagarde preaches fiscal discipline in one of Brazil's most dangerous slums

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encouraged Brazil on Thursday to pursue fiscal discipline, saying it was needed to protect social programs benefitting the poorest members of society. IMF chief Christine Lagarde made the link during a visit to Complexo do Alemao, one of Rio's largest and most dangerous slums and an example of the challenges the country faces as it struggles with low growth and high inflation
Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC
Uruguay and Brazil summit to consider a more flexible Mercosur

Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will be meeting his peer, Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia this Thursday to address a dense bilateral agenda, and more specifically the workings and future of Mercosur, in search for a more flexible group, open to agreements with third parties.
Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:08 UTC
Five world leading banks fined 5.7bn dollars for manipulating foreign exchange markets

Five of the world's largest banks are to pay fines totaling $5.7bn for charges including manipulating the foreign exchange market. Four of the banks - JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and RBS - have agreed to plead guilty to US criminal charges, while the fifth, UBS from Switzerland will plead guilty to rigging benchmark interest rates.
Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:56 UTC
Iranian officers' interviews, allegedly linked to AMIA bombing, attract world media attention

The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish organization in downtown Buenos Aires aired this week by Argentine news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.
Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:45 UTC
Venezuelan government targets opposition leader Capriles for making “false allegations”

Barely one week after Venezuela’s President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Diosdado Cabello filed a defamation suit against 22 media executives and editors for publishing reports linking him to an international drug-trafficking, another high-level minister announced they would be filing suit against opposition leader Henrique Capriles for making “false allegations.”