Politics

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  ARA Libertad conflict forces the resignation of the Argentine navy chief

  

  The ARA Libertad conflict retained in Ghana has a new victim: Argentina’s Navy chief of staff Admiral Carlos Alberto Paz tendered his resignation and was replaced by his deputy Vice-Admiral Daniel Alberto Martin.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Brazil implements racial and income affirmative action at federal universities

  

  The law which forces Brazilian federal universities to leave 50% of higher education seats to students from government schools and minorities such as blacks and indigenous became effective on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:33 UTC

  UK to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan next year

  

  Britain plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan next year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said, as pressure mounts to end British involvement in the costly and unpopular war.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 00:07 UTC

  Brazil insists in criticizing US monetary policy, but “we are prepared”

  

  Brazil’s central bank president Alexandre Tombini refuted on Monday arguments that the US expansionist monetary policy do not harm emerging countries such as Brazil.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 23:08 UTC

  ARA Libertad dispute in Ghana: high ranking Argentine navy officers lose their jobs

  

  Argentina’ Defence Ministry announced on Monday that two top Navy officers had been disciplined for their responsibility in plotting the course of the training frigate ARA Libertad currently retained in Ghana on an injunction from a US based hedge fund and following a failed plea last Thursday.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:17 UTC

  Spain has lost a million people since January 2011 because of the recession

  

  Condemned by recession, almost a million persons have left Spain since January last year according to a report from the country’s National Statistics Institute, INE, which also points out that the trend has intensified in the first nine months of this year.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  Damaged cargo aircraft exposes vulnerability of Brazil’s airports’ system

  

  Brazil’s poor infrastructure was again confirmed over the weekend at one of Sao Paulo international airports, Viracopos, when a damaged cargo aircraft blocked activities forcing 450 flight cancellations and overloading the already saturated capacity of other air terminals.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 19:11 UTC

  Chile-Argentina qualifier heats up with UK ambassador reference to the Falklands

  

  In an anticipation of Tuesday’s qualifier between Argentina and Chile for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, UK ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin got muddled in a “twitter incident” involving the Falklands/Malvinas for which later he had to apologize.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

  “Angry Indec” video game to make Argentine more furious about prices

  

  An Argentine video game allows players to compare the prices used by the National Statistics and Census Institute, Indec, to measure inflation with those consumers say they pay, a pastime that has caused angry reactions among players when they see the gap.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 18:48 UTC

  Bernanke replies to Brazil and IMF on rich countries monetary easing controversy

  

  Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has defended the central bank's measures to bolster the US economy. Brazil has said US monetary easing to keep interest rates low and weaken the dollar has hurt emerging economies. And IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned on Sunday of consequent asset bubbles developing in emerging nations.