Politics

• Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:05 UTC

  Bachelet proclaimed pre-candidate promises tax and education reforms

  

  Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet was proclaimed as pre-candidate for the coming presidential elections next November 17 during a political rally in Santiago organized by the Socialists and the Party for Democracy (PPD).

• Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:01 UTC

  Francis names advisory board of cardinals to advise on reforming the Curia

  

  Pope Francis, in his first major decision, set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled central administration.

• Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:39 UTC

  A view from the Falklands on Margaret Thatcher's legacy

  

  By Mike Summers (*)
  
  The reports on the reaction in the United Kingdom to the death of Baroness Thatcher have shown a clear contrast between those who approved of her policies and those that did not. This is understandable and is no doubt true of any prime minister. However, here in the Falkland Islands there is very little difference of opinion. Margaret Thatcher is held in high regard and with deep affection by Islanders, for she is someone to whom we owe much.

• Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:36 UTC

  Brazil determined to lower inflation; Central bank could raise Selic rate at next meeting

  

  Brazil's top two economic policymakers warned on Friday that high inflation will not be tolerated. Central bank chief Alexandre Tombini and Finance Minister Guido Mantega said at separate events the government will not hesitate in taking measures to combat high inflation.

• Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  Madrid’s city council to vote naming a street after Margaret Thatcher

  

  Madrid's conservative-run city council said on Friday it wants to name a street in the Spanish capital after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose legacy has proved as polarising in death as she was in life.

• Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 01:37 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ history and referendum message impact in Honduras and Guatemala

  

  The way the Falkland Islands have developed into a self governing and self financing country and the recent referendum with its strong message, attracted genuine attention of another two countries visited by a Falklands’ delegation.

• Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 01:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ delegation received in Latam with open doors and genuine interest

  

  Latinamerican members of government, opinion formers and academics have been genuinely interested in hearing the Falkland Islanders’ point of view and the recent referendum results, revealed Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short.

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 23:12 UTC

  Thatcherism spread far and wide but with a hollowed middle class, for how long?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. But it is an open question whether even the crash of 2008 and the ensuing prolonged recession have finally ended the long reign of her ideas in Western politics.

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Maduro pledges he will be elected president and later ‘president’ of Mercosur

  

  In his closing massive campaign rally in Caracas, Thursday evening incumbent candidate Nicolas Maduro pledged that next Sunday he will win the Venezuelan presidential election and later will take over the presidency of Mercosur.

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  Mujica ‘deepest apologies’ to Cristina Fernandez for the ‘coarse, jail-language’

  

  “My deepest apologies to those whom I might have hurt with my words in recent days” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in his daily broadcast on Thursday, the first public apology for the controversial expressions he used last week to refer to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.