Politics

Monday, November 4th 2019 - 19:32 UTC
Fernández's government “won't change” its vision regarding Venezuela for debt renegotiation

The Peronist Felipe Solá, one of the candidates for minister of foreign affairs in the government of the president-elect of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said Monday that the next administration, to renegotiate the debt, will not change its vision regarding Venezuela.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC
“No one from the Fernandez team has spoken officially on the Malvinas issue”

Felipe Sola is a pragmatic Peronist, ex Agriculture minister with president Carlos Menem, former elected governor of the Buenos Aires province, the most significant electoral circumscription of Argentina and is increasingly mentioned as the next minister of foreign affairs and worship. Solá is currently with president-elect Alberto Fernandez in Mexico and before leaving was interviewed and made some announcements referred to the “Malvinas Islands”.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:52 UTC
Tatham Jr. optimistic about Brexit and a future UK/US trade deal

The Brexit mess finally will clear, one way or the other, and when it does, big Chicago exporters such as Boeing and Abbott Labs and their peers from around the country will be able to focus on the benefits of doing business with the United Kingdom.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:45 UTC
El Salvador and Venezuela: reciprocal expulsion of diplomats

Venezuela ordered El Salvador's diplomats to leave the country in reprisal for President Nayib Bukele's expulsion of officials representing the government in Caracas. El Salvador does not recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as legitimate and said on Saturday it would receive a new diplomatic corps representing opposition leader, Juan Guaido.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:42 UTC
Outrage in Brazil at the killing of an indigenous “guardian of the forest”

Activists expressed outrage on Sunday at the killing of an indigenous “guardian of the forest” in Brazil's Amazon and called on the government to thwart illegal loggers in the region. Paulo Paulino Guajajara and another tribesman, Laercio Guajajara, were ambushed by loggers late Friday as they patrolled the Arariboia territory in the northeastern state of Maranhao.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Bolivian opposition call for new elections to resolve political crisis

Bolivia's chief opposition leader on Sunday called for new elections to resolve the political crisis engulfing the nation since a disputed Oct 20 vote that Bolivian authorities said was won by leftist President Evo Morales, sparking protests.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:31 UTC
Germany will celebrate 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a “reflective spirit”

Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as Donald Trump's America First, Britain's Brexit and Russia's resurgence put a strain on ties.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC
Eight hopefuls for Speaker of Commons Bercow chair

British MPs will this Monday select the new speaker of the House of Commons, once an unremarkable event but one now charged with significance following the previous occupant's role in Brexit.
Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Privatized services plus health, education and pension's costs, the right blend for Chile's social explosion

It is not poverty that is driving Chile's middle class into the streets to join massive protests: it is debt, brought on by sky-high private health and education costs that have created an economic fragility many find unbearable.
Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:23 UTC
Trump certain an “angry majority” of American voters support him against impeachment inquiry

President Donald Trump said on Friday he believed an “angry majority” of American voters will support him against an impeachment inquiry as he sought to rally his supporters to voice their opposition to the Democratic attempt to oust him.