Politics

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 23:54 UTC

  Argentine farmers reject increase in export taxes, but privilege dialogue

  

  Argentine farmers are disappointed with the new taxes on farm produce exports decreed by government, and particularly with president Alberto Fernandez who had promised during the campaign to work with them in developing policies.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Brazilian government dismisses as a “commercial game” results of COP25 climate talks in Madrid

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic, dismissed as a “commercial game” the result of the COP25 climate talks in Madrid. He particularly singled out rich European nations as the players.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Netanyahu says Bolsonaro's son anticipated Brazil would move its embassy to Jerusalem next year

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Brazil will follow the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem next year. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has expressed before his intention of moving his country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but senior officials later backtracked for fear of damaging trade ties with Arab countries.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  “God, a fellow Brazilian”, helped Jair Bolsonaro become president

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said God, a fellow Brazilian, had handed him the election victory that propelled him to office in South America's largest economy.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Maduro's court opens criminal cases against four opposition lawmakers

  

  Venezuela's Supreme Court opened criminal cases Monday against four National Assembly lawmakers opposed to President Nicolas Maduro, accusing them of rebellion and treason for their part in a failed military uprising.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Mexico rejects US labor inspectors: they are not included in the USMCA trade pact

  

  Mexico’s trade negotiator for North America said that Mexico categorically opposes allowing foreign labor inspectors to operate in the country, saying that was not contemplated in the recent agreement with Washington and Ottawa on the USMCA pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentine ex police officer linked to killings and torture extradited to Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine ex-police officer linked to the murder of hundreds of people during the country's “dirty war” was on a plane to Buenos Aires on Monday, after France extradited him to face trial over the disappearance of a student.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Uruguayan president confident he is overcoming lung cancer

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez clinical studies of the oncologic treatment he is undergoing “are satisfactory with no current evidence of the illness. He will continue with periodic controls, keeping to his normal activities in government”

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Double burden of undernutrition, rapidly expanding in Latin America among children and women

  

  Low and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and under-nutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned on Monday.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 07:39 UTC

  Bloomberg fined 5 million Euros in France for a report based on a fake news release

  

  France's financial markets watchdog on Monday hit Bloomberg with a five million euro (US$5.6 million) fine for a report based on a fake news release that triggered a plunge in the shares of French construction giant Vinci and wiped billions off its market value.