Politics

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 11:22 UTC

  The Pope next to Castro calls for a future of “freedom and reconciliation” in Cuba

  

  Pope Benedict urged Cubans to build a better, “renewed and open society” on Monday and pressed the Castro brothers regime to give the Catholic Church more liberties to help the country as it faced an uncertain future.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 03:50 UTC

  RAF Vulcan bombers trained to bomb mainland Argentina during Falklands war

  

  British newspaper The Telegraph caused a media stir in Buenos Aires on Monday after running a story disclosing the details of a military operation to attack Argentina mainland during the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 03:21 UTC

  US remembers Argentina debts must be honoured and suspends trade benefits

  

  Buenos Aires released a statement on Monday “regretting” US President Barack Obama's decision to suspend Argentina from the US Generalized System of Preferences program, which waives import duties on thousands of goods from developing countries.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 02:11 UTC

  The Summit of the Americas will discuss the Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  The UK/Argentina Falklands/Malvinas dispute is among the short list of topics to be discussed at the coming VI Summit of the Americas, announced on Monday Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Maria Angela Holguin.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 09:40 UTC

  US supports competition but confident its nominee will lead the World Bank

  

  Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to lead the World Bank, will win broad international support despite an unprecedented challenge by candidates from emerging economies, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 09:36 UTC

  Peruvian president joins the controversy on the turning back of HMS Montrose

  

  Peruvian president Ollanta Humala supported Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Roncagliolo following the impasse with the British embassy in Lima that strongly criticized the last minute cancelling of the protocol visit of HMS Montrose to El Callao.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 09:04 UTC

  PM Cameron caught in Conservative party fund raising scandal

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to investigate why a senior Conservative party fundraiser offered exclusive access to him in return for donations of 396,700 dollars a year.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:59 UTC

  Printing money does not lead to inflation, argues Argentine central bank president

  

  The president of Argentina’s Central Bank (BCRA), Mercedes Marcó del Pont, stressed the importance of the recently approved bank’s charter reform and denied that printing currency leads to the creation of an inflationary state “since inflation is rooted in other causes”.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:41 UTC

  Benedict in Mexico condemns drug trafficking, corruption and ‘futile acts of revenge’

  

  Pope Benedict at a huge outdoor Mass on Sunday condemned drug trafficking and corruption in Mexico, urging people to put aside violence and revenge in the country where a murderous war between cartels has led to tens of thousands of deaths.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta joins the pack and revokes YPF oil concessions

  

  As was anticipated yet another Argentine province, Salta, announced Sunday its decision to revoke a concession from Spanish held oil company YPF. The governor from the north-west province of Salta, Juan Manuel Uturbey, and a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez, announced his decision to revoke oil company YPF concession of the Tartagal Oeste area and his intention to include it in a list of areas that will be put out to tender.