Stories for June 2016

Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 08:34 UTC
Lula da Silva blasts media for trying to hide the “coup” against Rousseff

Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva accused the media conglomerate Globo, the country’s largest, of censoring suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, adding that the interim government of Michel Temer is seeking to take away social rights and is “delivering” the nation’s oil for exploitation by foreign interests.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:40 UTC
Argentine hopes dashed on Falklands, Antarctica: Continental Shelf Commission refused to consider three major claims

In April 2009, Argentina submitted a formal claim to sovereignty over an exceptionally large continental shelf, across hundreds of miles of the sea-bed to the east and south of Argentina. This year, in March, newspapers around the world incorrectly reported the whole Argentine submission had been endorsed.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:34 UTC
Delimitation of the Argentine continental shelf

By Professor Peter Willetts, South Atlantic Council (*) - The Argentine Foreign Ministry announced on 28 March 2016 that it had gained international recognition of a claim to an exceptionally large continental shelf. But they were mistaken. Argentina had made a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) on 21 April 2009 to claim sovereignty rights over the resources of the sea-bed.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:30 UTC
Peru's next president: no economic surprises with a strong dash of populism

Less than a decade after Peru imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, voters will decide on Sunday whether to put his 41-year-old daughter back in the presidential palace where she once served as his first lady.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:13 UTC
Temer's administration confident of congressional support for its economic plans

President Michel Temer's will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 08:41 UTC
Brazil wants Venezuela out of the Mercosur rotating chair

Brazilian government would like to block Venezuela from taking the rotating presidency of Mercosur later this month, a move to further debilitate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's power, according to Planalto sources close to interim president Michel Temer, who admitted the proposal has yet to be discussed with other members.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC
Falklands are “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future

The Falklands are a people, “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future, as enshrined as leading principle in the UN Charter and safeguarded by the several covenants on civil and political rights, said Falklands' government representative Krysteen Ormond addressing the Pacific Regional Seminar of the C24, Special Decolonization Committee.
Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 14:09 UTC
Monsanto and Argentina closer to an agreement on exports inspections dispute

Monsanto Co., eager to get royalties from growers in Argentina on genetically modified soybeans, said on Wednesday it was still trying to resolve a dispute with the government over inspections, while an agricultural ministry source said a deal may be reached in the coming days.
Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 09:20 UTC
Argentina describes Falklands' governor speech on links as 'positive', but they must be bilateral through UK

Argentina believes there is an opportunity to improve the relation with the Falkland Islanders, and 'we are exploring available options', but those links must be channeled through bilateral relations with the United Kingdom, since the Islands dispute is with the UK.
Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 09:11 UTC
Temer's home in Sao Paulo is fenced off to keep protestors away

Brazil's acting president, Michel Temer, put a fence around his home in Sao Paulo to prevent protesters gathered in the vicinity from harassing his family. The measure, authorities said, was taken to “strengthen” the security surrounding the family of the interim president after on May 22 riot police dispersed a demonstration before his house.