MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 6th 2016
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 14:44 UTC
Presidential arrhythmia: 'Stress' and 'ministers who make the president's blood to boil'
Argentina's presidential medical team and the head of the powerful trade unions umbrella organization gave their opinions on what could have caused President Mauricio Macri's heart arrhythmia and heart tests that followed and forced him to rest over the weekend.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 11:07 UTC
Uruguay will hand the Mercosur rotating chair to Venezuela in July and defies OAS chief proposal
Uruguay will hand over the chair of Mercosur to Venezuela at the end of July, as indicated by the organization's calendar, and does not support the implementation of the Democratic clause against the government of president Nicolas Maduro, as sponsored by OAS secretary general, Luis Almagro a former Uruguayan foreign minister.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 11:01 UTC
Support for Macri remains strong despite tough economic measures
A majority of Argentines continue to support president Mauricio Macri despite a raft of unpopular measures, public utilities rate increases, inflation, redundancies and slower activity, which his administration has been forced to implement in the first six months of his mandate in an attempt to reorganize the country's economy.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 10:51 UTC
Brazil's Lower House approves salary raises for military and civil servants
The lower house of Brazil's Congress approved last week salary raises for military and civil servants that will cost about 4 billion reais (US$1.12 billion) this year, the lower house said through its official news agency.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 10:46 UTC
Petrobras will have full independence to set domestic fuel prices
Brazil's energy ministry said on Saturday it backed full independence for Petrobras to set domestic fuel prices, blaming past controls for saddling the state-controlled oil company with crippling debt that is the oil industry's largest.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 07:54 UTC
Kuczynski has a slight lead over Keiko in the Peruvian presidential runoff
Economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a slight lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former president, as early results came in from Peru's presidential election on Sunday. The 77-year-old Kuczynski had 50.59% support while Fujimori had 49.41% with about 52% of votes counted.
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Monday, June 6th 2016 - 07:31 UTC
UK dilemma with Malcorra at the UN, “a candidate favoured by Washington”
Britain is facing a diplomatic dilemma since it seems quite clear that the US administration of Barack Obama favours the Argentine candidate and current foreign affairs minister Susana Malcorra as the next UN Secretary General, according to an article published on the Sunday edition of The Telegraph and written by Peter Foster, Europe editor and Harriet Alexander, New York editor.
