Politics

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:06 UTC

  Chilean universities establish closer links with their UK counterparts

  

  A group of the main Chilean universities travelled to the United Kingdom on an invitation from UK Universities, with the purpose of deepening links and greater opportunities for collaboration in areas such as research and innovation. This was a follow up mission to the 12 British universities that visited Chile last year to establish links with their counterparts.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Uruguay forecast to grow 2.5% this year, but must “strongly moderate” public spending

  

  Private consultants forecast the Uruguayan economy will expand 2.5% in 2015, compared to 3.5% the previous year, but recommend a “strong moderation” in government spending to retake the path of sustained growth and contain the consequences of an adverse international scenario mostly recessive.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Leading Argentine economist says that we must admit “IMF is incorrigible”

  

  Economist Aldo Ferrer has said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “incorrigible”, questioning the report the multilateral credit organism released this week saying Argentina should devalue on its peso currency and carry out austerity policies to get back on the track of growth.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:38 UTC

  Time magazine front page re-edits 1968 picture to describe 2015

  

  Time magazine used for its next issue an image covered by a regular citizen and aspiring photographer named Devin Allen where police force can be seen chasing a young black man. It would be a dated image if it weren´t for the validity that it recovered these past few months- and days- in the US.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:22 UTC

  Euro zone scrapes out of deflation in April; unemployment remains above 11%

  

  Consumer prices in the Euro zone scraped out of deflation in April after four months, official data has shown, boosting hopes of economic recovery in Europe. The inflation rate in the 19 nations that use the Euro stood at 0% in April, up from a rate of -0.1% in March. Eurostat said that low energy costs were continuing to cut living costs.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 05:29 UTC

  Argentina and Chile coordinate joint scientific research in South Atlantic

  

  Outstanding researchers and scientists from Argentina and Chile in the fields of marine sciences, fisheries Antarctica and technology innovation met this week in Buenos Aires for a day's work coordinating the scientific efforts of both countries.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:46 UTC

  “Best brains of Gibraltar” will work together in a Consultative Council

  

  The ‘best brains in Gibraltar’ will work together for the common good under plans for a proposed Gibraltar Consultative Council. The aim is to set up a permanent forum that will work along the same lines as the UK’s Privy Council, providing non-partisan advice to the Chief Minister of the day on issues of national importance, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  Jewish organizations 'dismayed' by Timerman's 'threats and slanders'

  

  The Argentine-Israel Association, AMIA, expressed on Wednesday great dismay given the “strong threats” in the letter sent by Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman announcing he was quitting as member of the century old organization.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 22:48 UTC

  Uruguay insists Mercosur must achieve “a free trade zone which effectively works”

  

  Uruguay again complained about the current stalled situation of Mercosur and called for members to 'sincere' themselves regarding the compliance of the original 1991 founding charter, and hopefully “we can at least reach the first stage of the chronogram: a free trade zone which effectively works and has not to bear the brunt of hurdles”.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentine central bank increases reserves to highest level since November 2013

  

  Argentina's central bank bought 630 million of dollars on the local currency market on Tuesday in one of its largest-ever purchases, a move that will bolster the country's precariously low hard currency reserves. Some 500 million of the dollars purchased were proceeds from last week's 1.5 billion auction of bonds by state energy company YPF.