Stories for 2016

Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 02:04 UTC
Rousseff cancels Washington trip to avoid Temer from becoming acting president

President Dilma Rousseff decided on Tuesday to cancel her planned trip to the United States next Thursday to participate in the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, to be held in Washington.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:46 UTC
“The Argentines are childish stalkers who menace us Falkland Islanders”

By Lisa Watson (*), published in The Telegraph - Having a neighbor like Argentina is like living next door to your stalker – someone who terrorizes you but then tearfully berates you for rejecting their advances.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:28 UTC
European Court supports UK ruling on Brazilian mistakenly shot dead in 2005

British authorities were right not to prosecute police officers over the killing of a Brazilian man who was shot dead on the London Underground after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, a European court ruled on Wednesday.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:14 UTC
Beijing reminds Argentina of the jigger sinking before a possible meeting of Macri with Xi Jinping

Beijing said that it “expects Argentina to perform according to law” in reference to the recent sinking of a Chinese flagged jigger by the country's Coast Guard and which was operating in Argentina's EEZ. The announcement is considered significant in Buenos Aires since Argentine president Mauricio Macri is expecting to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping in Washington, next Friday in the framework of the Nuclear security summit.
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 08:32 UTC
Brazil Finance minister disregards calls from Lula for tax breaks and more credit

Brazilian Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa said on Tuesday it is not the time for more tax breaks, disagreeing publicly with former president Lula da Silva's call for fiscal stimulus to revive a moribund economy.
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 08:23 UTC
Yellen says the Fed will 'proceed cautiously' and in no hurry to raise interest rate

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the Fed still envisions a gradual pace of interest rate increases in light of global pressures that could weigh on the economy. Yellen did not specify a timetable for further hikes to follow the Fed's rate increase in December from record lows. She said the risks to the United States remain limited but cautions that assessment is subject to “considerable uncertainty.”
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 08:00 UTC
Argentina wins a first round at the WTO over a biodiesel controversy with the EU

The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on Tuesday in favor of Argentina in a series of complaints the country filed with the international body, challenging punitive duties by the European Union on its biodiesel imports. The WTO, however, said the EU was not violating its rules.
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 07:46 UTC
Ushuaia pickets lifted but Government house remains occupied by strikers

Argentine extreme-south Tierra del Fuego province government unions blocking the main national highway to the capital Ushuaia decided to lift pickets, but agreed to continue with the several weeks occupation of the provincial government house in demand for the elimination of recently approved reforms to the pensions scheme.
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 06:28 UTC
Dilma main ally abandons government pushing her closer to impeachment

A anticipated Brazil's largest party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, PMDB, announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.
Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 19:48 UTC
UN announcement has no implications on sovereignty over the Falklands.

A statement released earlier this afternoon from the Falkland Islands Government regarding the UN announcement of the extension of the Argentine continental shelf states that the announcement makes “no adjudication on the sovereignty of the Falkland Island and has no implications for the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands”.